[Regia-NA] BBC NEWS | Magazine | The real sound of Shakespeare?

[Douglas Sunlin]

As a performer at a Ren Faire, we were coached to speak this way. Apparently 
the Lancastershire accent of Long John Silver was very Elizabethan...

On manræden,
Osweald of Baldurstrand
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>From: rmhowe <mmagnusm at bellsouth.net>
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>Subject: [Regia-NA] BBC NEWS | Magazine | The real sound of Shakespeare?
>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:58:06 -0400
>
>Remember when I said the NC coastal areas came closest
>to the Queen's English? Now the Globe Theater does too.
>
>Although I would say that with the influx of other folks
>to build summer homes in that area I do expect such
>things to be rather uncommon and disappearing as
>quickly as many dialects with the proliferation of
>television and movies:
><http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4694993.stm>
>
>I rather suspect most of this dialect is confined
>to the less accessible areas in the northern banks
>areas of the coast. The smaller fishing villages.
>West and north of them they have the Great Dismal
>Swamp (I haven't heard of anyone seeing the ghost
>ship sailing through it for a long time but it is
>certainly in the NC legends).
>
>Magnus
>
>
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