On 8/3/21 11:29 AM, marc hanson wrote:
On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 7:05:14 PM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:
https://daily.jstor.org/are-we-getting-shakespeares-rhythms-all-wrong//
Rather naïve, failing even to mention the possibilities of counterpoint
(“To bé / or nót / to bé, / thát is / the quéstion,” or the well known differences in syllabification between Shakespeare’s time and ours (“banishèd”, “musiciàn”), not to mention the occasional changes in words
(“Mílan”, “revénue”).
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