Podcasts about original pronunciation

The July 2023 episode of "In a Manner of Speaking" is all about William Shakespeare. Paul dives deep into the Bard, from iambic pentameter, to scansion, to scoring, to metre, to Original Pronunciation. It's a fun exercise for scholars and professionals but also actors just beginning their Shakespeare journey.

This episode features a visit from the Ghost of Mr. Shakespeare as the Bard and George attend a rehearsal of Butler University's rap version of Richard III - Ricky 3.  Mr. Shakespeare proves himself to be a most agreeable chap, and George and the Bard attend a full rehearsal of an unconventional Richard III that is both innovative and respectful of the original.  This is the final podcast episode before the full run of Ricky 3  - with performances on July 21, 22, and 23, as well as July 28, 29, and 30 at Taggart Ampitheatre in Riverside Park, Indianapolis.  There is no charge for what should be an incredible experience!00:00 Intro02:18 Info about Richard III/Ricky 304:15 Mr. Shakespeare on Richard III11:46 “Now is the winter of our discontent”15:12 Innovative additions17:24 Info about attending performance21:14 Future Episodes22:15 Sources23:07 Outro What is Original Pronunciation?What group of actors was Richard III written for?Who originally played Richard III?How does Richard/Ricky first address the audience?What is especially unique about the Battle of Bosworth in the Butler University production?What are the dates for the production (ok, this borders on a plug)

[Click 'More' below to see SEGMENTS] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal. Ben is also a writer, a producer, and curator of the Shakespeare Ensemble. Ben speaks about Shakespearean acting, on stage and online, and also about salmon and many other topics. Ben is an expert in OP, or the Original Pronunciation of words in Shakespeare's works, and he also has worked to stage plays using original production techniques.SEGMENTS:0:00:00 - Intro0:01:40 - The Welsh rain, salmon, Snowdonia, and Wales again0:04:10 - Tokyo during the pandemic (Oct. 2020)0:06:15 - The Zoom learning curve for actors, teachers, and learners0:10:40 - YouTube work, To Be or Not to Be et al., as work dries up for actors.0:12:55 - Timon of Athens and online Shakespeare0:13:51 - The Show Must Go Online, More on Timon and Titus0:16:45 - Ways to feature online Ben while waiting for his return to Japan?0:20:20 - How to adjust to lack of audience response online, learning curve again0:22:30 - Original Shakespearean rehearsal practices and the value0:34:50 - Ben's pre-pandemic tour of Japan (2019) / Japan experience0:37:36 - Love of linguistics and the Welsh language, 0:40:33 - Cultural kinship with Japan / culture features of Japan0:43:14 - Shakespeare in Japan / Ninagawa0:46:18 - Pandemic performance / advantages of distancing, and disadvantages0:54:05 - Theatre and challenges of pandemic mindset / living too much in the head0:57:44 - Shakespeare during the plague in his time0:59:28 - Ben during the plague of his time / and more plague1:01:45 - Shakespeare after the plague / revival energy1:02:16 - 'Midsummer' / features of Shakespearean comedy1:06:40 - Ben's recreation of a John Donne sermon1:09:40 - Ben and The Shakespeare Ensemble1:12:00 - Ben's coming day and closing remarksLINKS: Ben Crystal: http://www.bencrystal.com/aboutThe Show Must Go Online: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobMyles/videosThe Shakespeare Ensemble: https://www.theshakespeareensemble.com

S3E50 What did actors in Shakespeare's day sound like? To answer that question, Ash is once again joined by Ben Crystal, author of Shakespeare on Toast and expert in the field of original pronunciation.  Check out Ben's work here:  http://www.bencrystal.com/   And find him on Twitter @bencrystal And check out our Patreon page here:  Ear Read This is creating Podcasts | Patreon Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound.  @earreadthis earreadthis@gmail.com facebook.com/earreadthis  

The Sword Guy Podcast episode 55 Ben Crystal is an actor, author, producer, and explorer of original practices in Shakespeare rehearsal and production. In this episode we talk about Ben's work in exploring how actors would have rehearsed, staged, and performed Shakespeare's plays in the 16th century, and how the original rhymes and pronunciation would have sounded. It makes for a completely different experience to what we think of as “Shakespearean” in modern times. Even if you aren't into Shakespeare this is a fascinating conversation about theatre, memory, language, and of course, swords. Which leads us on to George Silver. Find out what Ben thinks of Silver and whether he would have wanted to go to the pub with him. For those of you unaware of our project, in 1599 George Silver published his Paradoxes of Defence, offering a window into the Tudor and medieval martial arts as practiced in England. I am bringing that book to life in glorious audio, both in modern pronunciation (narrated by Jonathan Hartman), and Original Pronunciation (narrated by Ben Crystal).  Renowned historical harpist Andrew Lawrence-King is providing the musical punctuation. You can support the project here: www.guywindsor.net/silver and listen to a sample of Ben's original pronunciation towards the end of the episode here: https://guywindsor.net/2021/05/paradoxes-of-defence-in-audio/. Visit Ben Crystal's website at www.bencrystal.com and find him on Twitter @bencrystal. For more information about the host Guy Windsor and his work, as well as transcriptions of all the episodes, check out his website at https://guywindsor.net/ And to support the show, come join the Patrons at  https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy    

During the 16th century, William Shakespeare had his own way of pronouncing words as well, and exploring how to define what that pronunciation was, and how it impacts our understanding of the plays, is a special field of historical linguistics called Original Pronunciation. Our guest this week, Dr. David Crystal is the leading expert in the field of Original Pronunciation and he joins us this week to talk about how an experiment he lead at The Globe theater in London taught everyone involved how important understanding the spoken language is to understanding Shakespeare’s plays.

Dr. Elisebeth VanderWeil on Finding "Good" Fear   Dr. Elisebeth VanderWeil  is a full-cycle learning, change, and fear expert in Seattle, WA. She is committed to helping individuals and organizations navigate the messy, difficult work of learning and change. To that end, she recently launched Hand in the Dark Consulting to help organizations reeling from change and is currently working on a book that will help people use their fears, rather than be used by them. Dr. VanderWeil speaks with Robin Renée about the nature of fear, the complexity of our responses to it, and how a small amount of the right kind of fear is essential for learning, growth, and transformation. In The Geekscape, Mary McGinley geeks out on sonnets and reads a couple of her favorites by Shakespeare. Listen in to find out why she says sonnets are like the Twilight Zone of iambic pentameter. All the News We Can Handle this week includes the impeachment hearing testimonies of Gordon Sondland and Fiona Hill, audio and video tapes of Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani turned over to the House Intelligence Committee, and a farewell to the pivotal website that kept Pagans aware and connected since 1997, The Witches' Voice. At the top of the show, Wendy Sheridan reminds us of some weird reasons to celebrate (or simply take note) including Influenza Week and Older Driver Safety Week. Also on the calendar is National Dice Day and National Sock Day (December 4th), Bathtub Party Day and International Ninja Day (December 5th), Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day and Skywarn Recognition Day (December 7th), Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day (December 8th), Weary Willy Day to celebrate the art of clowning (December 9th), Dewey Decimal System Day, Human Rights Day, and Nobel Prize Day (December 10th). Birthday wishes go out to Jay-Z, Tyra Banks, Little Richard, Margaret Cho, T.O., Nicki Minaj, Sinead O'Connor, Donny Osmond, Dame Judi Dench, Imogen Heap, Kirk Douglas, and Bobby Flay. Things to do: Visit Dr. Elisebeth VanderWeil's blog, A Space Safe Enough for Fear and contact her on Twitter. Read Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer. Read Shakespeare's sonnets. Watch "Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation." Watch "'Hoi Toiders': The Last of the Carolinian Brogues." Go to Kevin A. Patterson and Alana Phelan's For Hire: Audition book release party, December 4th, 6-8pm at Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse in Philadelphia. Featured Image by ElisaRiva from Pixabay

This first podcast focuses on Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation (the dialect of English spoken in the late 16th and early 17th century). It also serves as an introduction to the entire In a Manner of Speaking series, as Paul briefly touches on several topics of upcoming podcasts. For more information about the Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s upcoming production of Twelfth Night, visit the site.

It's Thursday, and that means it's time for Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck and her weekly review of the region's noteworthy thespian offerings. Today, she spotlights the new and unusual staging of William Shakespeare's Othello at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory.What's distinctive about this production of the classic tragedy is its use of ----Original Pronunciation,---- or O.P., which employs the sounds and rhythms of the English that actors in Shakespeare's London theaters would have spoken more than 400 years ago. The cast was trained in the antique dialect by O.P. coach Ann Turiano.Directed by Tom Delise, BSF's Othello features Troy Jennings in the title role, Kathryn Zoerb as Desdemona, and Ian Blackwell Rogers as Iago.Othello (in original pronunciation) continues at the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory through April 29.

There's a play called Sir Thomas More that is _not_ Shakespeare... but scholars have agreed that its most awe-inspiring monologue was indeed written by Shakespeare himself. In Sir Ian McKellen's words: "you'll know when you hear it." Xander delivers a special episode today: he reads the famous monologue from the play, on refugees. He does it first in modern English so you can understand it well, and then follows up with the Original Pronunciation, which was the English used in Shakespeare's time. the OP dramatically improves the rhyme and rhythm of the reading. In this monologue, More appeals to angry Englishmen about their treatment of immigrants. Normally I would summarize it, but I would do it no justice--this simply has to be heard. Sir Ian McKellen also delivers this monologue in a 2013 performance and totally kills it. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjEAeOshUGQ Link to your youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_MfONE3jNBTMY8xo78k0_A Video of the 2 dudes who... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ron Severdia chats with professor David Crystal about Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation, his Hamlet Quarto discovery, Shakespeare's Words, and his love for "Twitterrhea".

Audiences will be treated to King Lear the way it sounded in 1606 at its first performance at the Court of Saint James. Director and IU associate professor Murray McGibbon says that this is the first original pronunciation performance of William Shakespeare’s King Lear since the 17th century: “Making world theater history in Bloomington, Indiana.” …

Forget Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft, Al Pacino and Judi Dench. To take us back to Shakespeare's own time Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright hear Shakespeare as he himself would have spoken. The original, unvarnished version from linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal. They look at the fashion for Original Pronunciation and ask what it can tell us about how we speak now. Michael and Laura perform some of Shakespeare's best known work in the original accent and attempt to bring new meaning and wit to language coated by centuries of veneer. Producer: Mair Bosworth.

Ever wonder what Shakespeare’s plays actually sounded like 400 years ago? David Crystal is a linguist and author who has researched Original Pronunciation, or OP, the accent with which actors in Shakespeare’s day would have spoken their lines. And Daniel Fromson tells the modern-day story of a man who set sail for Tangier Island on which it’s rumored OP still exists. Plus: Getting the accent right is not the only challenge in reading Elizabethan English. Paul D’Andrea has spent years trying to pull the big ideas out of Shakespeare’s plays. D’Andrea was named Outstanding Faculty of 2015 by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Later in the show: With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker was astonished when world-renowned author John Grisham offered to take him under his wing and mentor Tony on the art of thriller writing. Plus: Novelist Carrie Brown draws inspiration from her years as a small-town America journalist, and from the mysteries of the cosmos. Her new book The Stargazer’s Sister tells the story of two remarkable sibling astronomers whose work led to the discovery of the planet Uranus.

Throughout 2014, Shakespeare’s 450th birthday inspired festivals and performances around the world. As the year of his birth comes to a close, we take a look back at how the Bard’s plays would have been performed in their day. David Crystal is a linguist and author who has researched Original Pronunciation, or OP, the accent with which actors in Shakespeare’s day would have spoken their lines. And Daniel Fromson tells the modern-day story of a man who set sail for an island on which it’s rumored OP still exists. Plus: Getting the accent right is a challenge, but there’s a whole different challenge in uncovering what Shakespeare’s words actually meant. Paul D’Andrea (George Mason University) has spent years trying to pull the big ideas out of Shakespeare’s plays. Later in the show: With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker was astonished when world-renowned author John Grisham offered to take him under his wing and mentor Tony on the art of thriller writing. Plus: Novelist Carrie Brown (Hollins University) draws inspiration from her years as a small-town America journalist, and from the mysteries of the cosmos. Her new book The Stargazer’s Sister tells the story of two remarkable sibling astronomers whose work led to the discovery of the planet Uranus.

An introduction by David and Ben Crystal to the 'Original Pronunciation' production of Shakespeare and what they reveal about the history of the English language.

Transcript -- An introduction by David and Ben Crystal to the 'Original Pronunciation' production of Shakespeare and what they reveal about the history of the English language.

An introduction by David and Ben Crystal to the 'Original Pronunciation' production of Shakespeare and what they reveal about the history of the English language.

Transcript -- An introduction by David and Ben Crystal to the 'Original Pronunciation' production of Shakespeare and what they reveal about the history of the English language.