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Originally Posted by HarryT
A significant proportion of Shakespeare's plays are written in blank verse - you can't just speak them as if they were prose (or at least not if you want to get the impact of what he actually wrote).
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Yet there are entire schools of Shakespearean acting that make a point of obscuring the meter. Their goal seems to be to make Shakespeare sound like spontaneous modern conversation. I've never quite seen the point of that -- performing Shakespeare as though he were Harold Pinter or Mike Leigh.