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Review of Speaketh Like the Bard: A Guide to Speaking in Shakespearean English

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

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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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0.109 - 9.352 Guest

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.

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9.432 - 10.312 Mason Carter

A deep dive it is.

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10.532 - 17.274 Guest

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.

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17.314 - 20.855 Mason Carter

And maybe even, like, hurl a good-natured Shakespearean insult or two.

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20.915 - 24.456 Guest

Maybe. Who knows? But seriously, though, where do we even begin?

24.636 - 35.704 Mason Carter

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.

35.844 - 44.511 Guest

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.

44.671 - 57.219 Mason Carter

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.

57.519 - 64.424 Guest

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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