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Thread #83022   Message #1525465
Posted By: Jim McLean
22-Jul-05 - 01:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Shakespeare plays in Elizabethan English
Subject: RE: BS: Shakespeare plays in Elizabethan English
Over 30 years ago I shocked and English teacher by suggesting that if Shakespeare was played with a Dublin accent, then some of the words would make more 'musical' sense rather than hear them mangled by Gielgud or Olivier.