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Review of Speaketh Like the Bard: A Guide to Speaking in Shakespearean English
Mon, 21 Oct 2024
Review of Speaketh Like the Bard: A Guide to Speaking in Shakespearean English by Mason Carter. the book is available on amazon: https://a.co/d/4xMbx2o
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Okay, so are you ready to, like, unlock a linguistic time capsule or what? Because today we are diving deep, and I mean deep, into Shakespearean English.
A deep dive it is.
You guys send in those excerpts from Speaketh Like the Bard, and clearly you are all ready to start throwing around those D's and O's.
And maybe even, like, hurl a good-natured Shakespearean insult or two.
Maybe. Who knows? But seriously, though, where do we even begin?
Well, what better place to start them with those pronouns? You know, they're not just like quirky word choices. No, they give us a glimpse into like the intricate social web of Elizabethan England.
It's like Shakespeare hid a secret code in his work or something. And like by cracking that code, we can like uncover these layers of meaning we wouldn't get otherwise.
Exactly. Take, for instance, thee and thou. Now, today we just use you for everyone, right? I mean, nobody really thinks twice about it. But in Shakespeare's time, choosing between you and thou could make or break a relationship.
Oh, wow. I did not realize it was that serious. So was it like as simple as like thou for friends and you for everybody else?
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