SHAKESPEARE on Pugnax. RRRRuff

[Kamil Prusakowski]

That's the biggest overinterpretation I've seen in my life

2016-04-17 14:58 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> I have the same doubts, Ish, felt they might be overselling,  perhaps
> acting as if such nuance when publicizing would get their work inspiring
> new productions nowhere. I would think in their published work, they would
> deal with what you say.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Apr 17, 2016, at 7:42 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Mark. Listened. Not sure if I agree entirely. The exact rhyme
> > argument doesn't convince me. There is no reason why the last words of
> > the famous couplet cited,   Loved and Proved,  must be read as an
> > exact or perfect or true rhyme. The words do rhyme and Shakespeare and
> > others of the period and those on his heels, like Milton, use slant,
> > half, eye, etc...rhyme ....wind is coupled with kind.
> >
> > The players were, like Shakespeare, more working class than members of
> > the court, though how they played the kings and queens and princes,
> > gravediggers and bellows menders, even with the linguistic commentary
> > and reviews, is still very difficult to determine. Still, I applaud
> > the thesis and its implications for the teaching of the Bard.
> >
> > http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/21/how-shakespeare-lives-now/
> >
> >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I just heard David and Ben Crystal on that  show that Kurt Anderson
> syndicates
> >> Thru NPR. The Crystals are a linguist, or maybe both, dunno, and
> shakespeare scholars who have been bringing to light the original
> pronunciation of Shakespeare--and getting plays produced that way, etc.
> >>
> >> Well, one of the them said, in OP ( Original Pronunciation) , many
> words sound closer to their meaning. Take ' war'....it isn't Dogs of war,
> soft, or waar, so to speak....it is Dogs of WARR (growled) RR, so to
> speak...
> >>
> >> That Pynchon...giving Pugnax those hard RRRs....
> >>
> >> This was/is great radio, a great piece.
> >>
> >>
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