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Special Guest: Professor David Crystal – Original Pronunciation (OP)

SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

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Episode  ·  1:21:46  ·  Sep 22, 2024

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In this special episode, Professor David Crystal OBE, one of the world's leading linguists with over 100 books to his name and a global reputation as a writer and lecturer on Early Modern English, talks to Sebastian Michael about Original Pronunciation (OP) – the way William Shakespeare and his contemporaries would have pronounced English at the time, and how this changes our understanding of Shakespeare's works generally, and specifically the sonnets.

1h 21m 46s  ·  Sep 22, 2024

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