A.Z. Foreman | Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 ("A woman's face with nature's own hand...") in Early Modern pronunciation @a.z.foreman74 | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 1 hour ago
My weekly reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in early modern English pronunciation continues with sonnet 20, a sonnet over which great amounts of ink and weirdness have been expended because sexuality. For this sonnet, I used a type of pronunciation quite close to that reconstructible for the dialect of Robert Robinson. Speaking of which, at line 10, note the rhyme "created"/"defeated" which probably depends on a reflex of ME /ai/ in the latter.
I’ve set myself the task of recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in reconstructions of what various types of London English sounded like in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period.
I’m recording them at a rate of about one every week. Most are subscriber-only on my Patreon account. Go ahead and make a pledge there to access them:
http://patreon.com/azforeman
I am making just a select few, like this one, publicly available right now.
If you'd like to hear this recording without the background music just download the audio file at my patreon:
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My weekly reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in early modern English pronunciation continues with sonnet 20, a sonnet over which great amounts of ink and weirdness have been expended because sexuality. For this sonnet, I used a type of pronunciation quite close to that reconstructible for the dialect of Robert Robinson. Speaking of which, at line 10, note the rhyme "created"/"defeated" which probably depends on a reflex of ME /ai/ in the latter.
I’ve set myself the task of recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in reconstructions of what various types of London English sounded like in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period.
I’m recording them at a rate of about one every week. Most are subscriber-only on my Patreon account. Go ahead and make a pledge there to access them:
http://patreon.com/azforeman
I am making just a select few, like this one, publicly available right now.
If you'd like to hear this recording without the background music just download the audio file at my patreon:
patreon.com/file?h=73401772&i=12081975
Have questions? Check my FAQ first
patreon.com/posts/64053058
