Sounds like an Irish accent.

Why does the accent sound so familiar

this is how shakespeare is meant to be heard and seen 👏🏽 that leonardo dicaprio romeo? i can’t stand that

It's a shame this wasn't recorded in a studio without the disturbance of babbling people in the background.

Sharing this video to my then-girlfriend, now-wife who I met in a Shakespeare class was very important to our relationship and I'm glad that the video is finally back after mysteriously been taken down for so long

Terrific rendition. Thank you.

It's so interesting to me that you can hear the influence this had on american accents, most notably in the South, where the R's are heavily pronounced. I now have to hear every single one of Shakespeare works all over again with this accent!

As a Canadian, I am having trouble understanding him. He is speaking too quickly maybe?

I wish this was taught in schools!

Parts of this remind me of certain southern American accents. There are also some isolated communities in the South eastern United States that speak a lot like this. One is off the coast of North Carolina I believe.

It's "General American", not "Good American".

"I was in politics, you know." BRILLIANT!

This is marvelous information. Don't believe I've seen the First Folio, but in the rare books room in the library of a tiny Midwestern college they have copies of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Folios. May have to go back and see them again, having heard this.

Why, in the name of all that is holy, would you agree to appear on GBNews? 🤨

An illiterate typesetter. I've heard all now.

That's what people sound like in the Outer Banks

It sounds like Munster English

Sounds mlik Klingonese

It sames we’ve been chayted of spaych boy t’morch o’ toym! But he’s giving it back to us

Now I see why us Americans sound the way we do. Our ancestors fled England around this time and thus sounded pretty similar.

it reminds me of a North Carolina Outer banks accent- we call it a hi tider accent.

Shakespeare in a modern accent sounds wooden and artificial. It sounds so much more natural with the original accent! 😮

Beautiful

Sounds like a rural Irish accent

How would of the Court spoke? A historian said Elizabeth 1st and her family spoke " polished London vowels". I'm genuinely curious as to the difference in speech.

I am really glad that modern English speakers can still read and even listen to Shakespeare and understand it!

Fascinating

Ðat's only WUN urijinal prununciasun. Ar u tawking about Saksper's Stratfurd UA?

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*that looks on tempests

Very similar to Oxfordian Engish, but not Oxonion. Windsor English (as with late Queen Liz 2nd King Chrales) partly from which RP arose, was originally a form of slang from noble family at Chatsworth. This trend of speaking went to Parliment and became "fashionable" centries ago.

It is like the ordinary Oxford accent (Not the "accademic one")

He sounds slightly Irish.

This is superb! Thank you 😊

Some questions that maybe somebody who specialises in English linguistics could answer: This pronunciation seems to feature the FOOT-STRUT split. Is it considered to have affected London this early (it is essentially complete in this video, while the play was originally from around 1600)? It also seems to exhibit the fronting of /a:/ all the way to /eɪ/, while be this time I thought it was considered to have been /æ:/, or at most /ε:/~/e:/ (not diphthongised, as it developed differently in different dialects). Finally, it also seems to have the long mid mergers, but merged into the diphthongs, while I thought they were supposed to have merged into the monophthongs and later diphthongised?

As a native Spanish speaker I wish it had stayed this way! It would have made it so much easier to learn!! 😅

First, this is amazing and I'm so glad it's up. I've watched it many times, recommended it, and used these concepts doing Shakespeare plays. I kinda wish for captions and/or better (louder) audio, but I'll make do Second, I'm gonna link some timestamps for reference if that's alright 0:44 start or 0:59 10:23 poetry vs. prose 21:45 ish "the actors have to come in on cue" 23:47 Mackers -- acting gaps 32:44 Hamlet grave scene! 39:48 synthesis, 40:02 moving on to "bright" and there end my timestamps because I just watch the whole thing

3 years ago this was published to YT and it's still a regular view for me, because Ben Crystal approaches Shakespeare in the only really logical approach. That of an actor, director, troupe manager, because these are PLAYS, not books. Plus ofc he is, himself, a great teacher, engaging, funny, deeply knowledgeable and passionate about his subject, and people like that, no matter what their subject, are always a pleasure to listen to, and a revelation too. Beauty really IS in the eye, or ears of the beholder, and to me, OP is truly beautiful to the ear.

Hello my fellow linguists from Warsaw 🙋

Wonderfully delivered!

8:07- Richard III in OP

This is amazing

man I love this interpretation - I must've watched this video about 10 times now over the last year or so, and I'm sure I'll keep regularly coming back to it. I just love the sound of the old pronounciation and the general interpretation and delivery of this soliloquy. It's just beautiful to listen to! <3

This is going to sound wrong, but we’ve no idea how folk really did sound… not the foggiest… don’t you sometimes find life an idea about an idea about an idea? Well, likely you’d be right

Absolutely wonderful!

I like the OP better.

Sounds a lot like a Newfoundland accent lol, mixed with pirates.

Hi. I hope someone reads this comment mine. I wish know about something. Recently my daughter started reading a book with Shakespeare plays modified as tales for kids. We are puzzled with a detail: many sentences in mid of a paragraph do not have capital letter at their first words.... Any particular reason? thanks

This is why the best actors and actresses come from England.

Thank you, thank you for all the love of Shakespeare and the English language that English teachers share with you all over the world. What precious minds!!