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Reuven Tsur
Phonetic Cues and Dramatic Function
Artistic Recitation of Metered Speech
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This paper discusses actual performances of poetic passages. On this page you may listen to the readings discussed in this paper, by clicking on their icons. You may download these sound files (make sure you download both the page and the sound files; then open the page with your browser).
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This page contains the sound files of the readings discussed in Reuven Tsur's paper
"Phonetic Cues and Dramatic Function", and the respective texts.
Listen to Simon Russel Beale's continuous reading of the opening lines of the first the soliloquy.
2. Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity :
Listen to Simon Russel Beale's reading of excerpt 2.
3. Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York
Listen to Simon Russel Beale's reading of excerpt 3.
Listen to the words "discontent" and "York", excised from the preceding reading of excerpt 3.
Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world; scarce half made up
,
Listen to Simon Russel Beale's reading of the above two lines.
Listen to two tokens of time
One excised from a reading of "Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time",
the other from a reading of
"Have no delight to pass away the time"
Listen to the phrases "But
I that am... I that am... I that am... why, I" excised from a reading of excerpt 1.
Listen to the last two items from the preceding list.
Compare now the original and the manipulated versions of lines 3-4 of Excerpt 2.
Original Version:
Manipulated Version
This version has been manipulated by electronic means: the vowel and [n] of sun have slightly been lengthened, and a glottal stop added between the two words:
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