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lil · 3715 days ago · link · · parent · post: Lil's Book of Questions: What's the Difference Between Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare?
Ha ha, we've covered that topic before. If there's something playing out in your direction -- and there surely is -- go and watch some live theatre. But failing that, watch the entire oevre in the series put together by the BBC in the early 1980s. One of my favourites is The Taming of the Shrew with John Cleese as Petrucchio. He arrives at the 18 minutes mark. Al Pacino, in The Merchant of Venice
Haha, "Mee purdona'o, gen'ew mahstah moin". I used to get into so many arguments with teachers from the UK about whether or not an internal /t/ was a glottal stop (without ever bringing up class, of course). I still say that the glottal stop is a recent addition to English, but whatever. I mean, wha'eva.
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