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[–] licheas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

considering that shakespear's plays were written in early modern English- which is basically an entirely different language than we speak today... the vast majoriity of people alive today would never actually recognize one.

A translation of one, sure. but nope. they probably wouldn't even understand it.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nah fam, you just ain't had it done right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6CLdCl9TB0

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow. That was… really good. I’m glad you shared it!

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I was lucky long ago in high school. Our lit teacher forbid us to read Shakespeare outside the classroom. Instead, we read along as we listened to the RSC's recordings of the play at the same time.

[–] licheas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s my point.

That’s not Early Modern English. Confusingly, Earky Modern is a precursor to the language we speak today.

It’s close enough a language that we can kinda muddle through it, we can translate it and most will never realize they did more than change some spelling, but most people have still never see it performed in the original- mostly because we would be muddling through missing things

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Saw him do this live and he was predictably incredible