William Shakespeare may still be considered the greatest playwright in the English language, but students, actors, and academics alike are challenged to interpret his 400-year-old texts for contemporary consumption. The British Library has released a new CD that claims to offer the first recordings of these texts in the original Elizabethan pronunciation, setting a new standard for how Shakespeare should sound on stage.The CD includes a selection of sonnets and excerpts from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Macbeth." Shakespearean pronunciation expert Ben Crystal oversaw the recording, chose the actors, and curated and directed their speeches."For the first time in centuries, we have 75 recorded minutes of sonnets, speeches, and scenes recorded as we hope Shakespeare heard them," Crystal told The Telegraph. "It is, in short, Shakespeare as you've never heard him before."The recordings are intended to make more sense of the written words' complex rhymes,...
- 3/14/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
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