[lbo-talk] Fast Talking Actors

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jul 19 15:15:14 PDT 2011


Joanna wrote: "they decided to talk very quickly."

A theater historian I talked with once suggested that on the Elizabethan stage an uncut Hamlet would have taken only slightly over 2 hours, with time for an intermission. _That_ is fast talking. With modern styles of acting that would take about 6 hours.

Carrol



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