The History of English Podcast · Kevin Stroud
Episode 171: Shakespeare’s English (featuring Ben Crystal)
·1 hr 7 min·6 clips
As heard by us
Shakespeare's grammar becomes a moving target, from "what see you" to "the most unkindest cut of all."
Episode 171 frames Shakespeare's difficulty as a language story rather than a test of reader patience. The History of English Podcast looks at why a writer so central to English can still sound unstable to modern ears, tracing that effect through Elizabethan grammar, looser…
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You can hear Shakespeare loosen up when "what see you" stops sounding wrong and starts sounding like English in motion.
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