RP or OP? That is the question by Robert McCrum

There is a persistent language myth that you can find Elizabethan English alive and well and living in the Ozarks, USA. Actually, if you want to hear Shakespearean English today, all you have to do is go to Southwark, London.I'm sitting in the Globe on a sunny summer's morning watching the cast rehearse the heartbreaking moment in Troilus and Cressida (act V, scene 2) when the heroine betrays her love and surrenders …

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