{"id":1437,"date":"2012-03-21T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2012-03-21T21:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:09:23","slug":"shakespeares-original-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/shakespeares-original-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare&#8217;s Original Pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all remember the horror of stumbling over Shakespeare\u2019s texts in school English classes, but what do the plays sound like when not spoken aloud by embarrassed teenagers?<\/p>\n<p>The British Library has released a CD featuring scenes and speeches from Shakespeare\u2019s work as he would have heard them. The selection of speeches includes Hamlet\u2019s \u201cto be, or not to be\u201d and Henry V\u2019s \u201cOnce more unto the breach, dear friends\u201d, with scenes featured from Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth and Othello. <\/p>\n<p>The recording reveals new ways of looking at Shakespeare\u2019s work, with lines that were meant to rhyme actually rhyming and puns that don\u2019t work in modern English revealed. You can listen to some clips from the recording <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/evie-jeffreys\">here<\/a>. People have said the accents sound Cornish, do you agree?<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare\u2019s Original Pronunciation CD is available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bl.uk\/\">British Library shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all remember the horror of stumbling over Shakespeare\u2019s texts in school English classes, but what do the plays sound like when not spoken aloud by embarrassed teenagers? The British Library has released a CD featuring scenes and speeches from Shakespeare\u2019s work as he would have heard them. The selection of speeches includes Hamlet\u2019s \u201cto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,100,3],"tags":[3,25,1115],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accents-2","category-culture","category-english","tag-english","tag-languages","tag-shakespearean-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}