From: rh@rudhar.com   
      
   Fri, 5 Jul 2024 21:22:42 +1200: Ross Clark    
   scribeva:   
   >Now this is interesting. Crystal, as you know, is quite proud of his   
   >part in the first (?) staging of a complete Shakespeare play with   
   >original pronunciation, at the new Globe in London (Romeo and Juliet,   
   >2004). But I did not know of Jones's presentation.   
      
   The only book by Jones that I own has it (or part of it) in an   
   appendix.   
      
   >It all started with Alexander John Ellis (see 14 June), who amassed a   
   >huge amount of evidence on the history of English phonology. However, he   
   >wrote in 1871: "It is, of course, not to be thought of that   
   >Shakespeare's plays should now be publicly read or performed in this   
   >pronunciation." Perhaps he just meant it shouldn't be compulsory.   
   >   
   >Jones, at any rate, read scenes from _The Tempest_ and _Twelfth Night_   
   >on this date in July 1909. (Crystal doesn't say where, on what occasion,   
   >to what sort of audience.) He was emboldened to do it again in December,   
   >adding some madrigals from the period.   
      
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