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English accents and pronunciation has changed so much since Shakespeare wrote his plays that his jokes are often missed by today's audiences Shakespeare's puns are lost on modern audiences Credit: ...

Baltimore Shakespeare Factory (BSF), working closely with world-renowned dialect and original pronunciation (OP) expert Paul Meier, will open Antony and Cleopatra, March 31 through April 23 at The ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. David Crystal: In May 2004 a company of actors was sitting in a rehearsal room at Shakespeare's Globe ...

Kody Grassett and Chelsea Evered in Underlings Theatre Company's production of "Romeo and Juliet." (Jeremy D. Goodwin for WBUR) Think of the most careful, precise, upper-class-sounding British accent ...

FAIRBANKS — David Crystal’s book, “Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language,” has been on my reading table lately. The section on phonology, “the study of the pattern of speech sounds used ...

Judge a book by its cover, always. A picturesque jacket enveloping a creamy hardback, with publication details in turquoise type, a yellow woven bookmark, the crisp white pages turning with a perfect ...

Meier is staging Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in November, and it will be the first time in North America that a Shakespeare production is being performed entirely in the original ...

If you can't tell 'ear-kissing' from a 'bone-ache' while reading the works of William Shakespeare, a new dictionary may finally help you out. 'The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language', ...

Kody Grassett and Chelsea Evered in Underlings Theatre Company's production of "Romeo and Juliet." (Jeremy D. Goodwin for WBUR) Think of the most careful, precise, upper-class-sounding British accent ...