Ben Crystal talks on pronunciation

Professor Grace Ioppolo writes:

I would like to invite you to a special lecture sponsored by the School of Literature and Languages’ Research Group on Theatre History and Performance Studies.

 On November 12th at 5pm in Humms 27, Whiteknights Campus, the actor Ben Crystal will talk about his amazing work on the original pronunciation of Shakespeare’s language.

Ben Crystal

 Ben’s video with his father David Crystal of pronouncing Shakespeare’s words suddenly went viral on the web last month and thus far has had nearly 1 million views:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s

 

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Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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