The Sound of Shakespeare

This is pretty interesting. It provides another illustration expanding the point of this New Yorker article from the lyrical to the literary. I may have the chance to see Cathy Rigby in her last tour as Peter Pan – earlier this year I read Barrie's play and novelization, and the first incarnation of Peter Pan extracted from The Little White Bird – but it's hard to convince myself that it's OK to spend the $70 for a good seat even when I can excuse it as a birthday indulgence; if I do go in the end, it will be because of that NY'er article.

Take this as seriously as you like, but I have heard that the accent of Delmarva peninsula natives have what is probably the nearest surviving accent to an Elizabethan English one that there is. I do not know if the Globe Theatre's people made any study of this.