Wonderful Simon Calliw, as always and utterly absorbing listening to him. A joy in this age of illiteracy and ignorance.......and dreadful spoken English.

I'm watching him as a "Duke of Sandringham" in Outlander and i like his pronounciation in English.

Simon - we just adore you !

I liked his performance in Amadeus. One of my favorite films

LOVE SIMON CALLOW WITH ALL MY HEART AND ALWAYS WILL

Simon Callow splendid British accent

👍 What a Great Performance when He played the character Aleister Crowley! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Love this guy - what is interesting though is that we are so used to hearing Shakespeare relayed in the "Queen's English" accent, but the real case is that Received Pronunciation did not really begin to arise until the early 1800s. So in Shakespeares day, they sounded more like a mix of Irish, Scottish, and Southern American accents. Can you imagine his plays with those accents?

@Hotspur77

11 ай бұрын

Im not entirely convinced that Elizabethan English (such as it was, with sundry regional variants) was so very different than RP. Otherwise one would expect all sorts of incongruities in rhyme and meter. Besides, most of what we know and love about Shakespeare was standardized by 18th century editors like Pope. From Johnson to Coleridge to Olivier to Callow, RP has been the sound of Shakespeare. Good enough for them = good enough for me. Everything else is conjecture, cf HIP in classical music.

Some people in the audience are laughing at such odd moments! Love Simon Callow!

Superb...a favorite actor

Discussission, splendid neologism! Thank you

Well done, Mr. Beebe.

Shake Speares Cupid...

Very difficult for lads raised on council estates to even get educated never mind realise Shakespeare. You learn the skills you need to survive in the environment you are raised and live in...and Shakespeare ain't one of the skills needed for survival in a brutal and violent place.

@matthewkramer5702

2 жыл бұрын

Though I of course understand the point that you're making, I want to offer a counterexample. In the mid-1990s, I heard an interview on BBC Radio 4 in which a Chinese student who had been imprisoned after the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing -- and who had then managed to immigrate to the UK -- described the ordeal of physical and psychological torture to which he had been subjected during his incarceration at the hands of the Chinese dictatorship. He explained that the pivotal factor in keeping himself sane and indeed alive during that ordeal was his recitation (in English) of three or four dozen passages that he had memorized from Shakespeare's plays. As he said in his interview, his recitation of those passages over and over in his cell served to remind him of the beauty of the world amid the ugly horrors of his months behind bars. For him, a solid knowledge of Shakespeare was "one of the skills needed for survival in a brutal and violent place."

@wj2429

2 жыл бұрын

This is an excuse. You're wearing your environment like an albatross. There's nothing more dull than the person who constantly refers to their working class heritage, after a while you have to decide to become your own person. I myself was born in a terribly rough estate, but I'm not pathetic enough to use it as an excuse for intellectual deficiencies. Don't like Shakespeare? Fine, just keep it to yourself, or express it in a more interesting way than 'I'm from the school of hard knocks'. You'll eventually be an old bugger looking back at a life of excuses and compromise.