- CLASSIFICAZIONE dei VERBI INGLESI

Per ascoltare il testo:  Glory_be_to_the_Father

Glory be to the Father

Glory be to the Father,

and to the Son,

and to the Holy Spirit:

as it was in the beginning,

is now, and ever will be,

world without end.

Amen

Rudyard Kipling (1907)
George Bernard Shaw (1925)
John Galsworthy (1932)
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1948)
Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1950)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1953)
Elias Canetti (1981)
William Golding (1983)
V.S Naipul (2001)
Harold Pinter (2005)
Doris Lessing (2007)

Double Falsehood is now published.The lost play by Shakespeare, perfomed in 1613, is not a forgery. According to Professor Brean Hamnmond (University of Nottingham and editor of the Arden Shakespeare Collection) in the play, co-written by Shakespeare and the dramatist John Fletcher, the Bard’s hand can be discerned in three of the acts. Researchers think it is based on Cardenio, which is itself based on de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. According to Professor Hammond there are evidence that links the 18th century play “Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald to the lost Shakespearean play. Theobald has always mantained that his work was a re-working of Shakespeare’s original.

See more:

An Interview with Professor Hammond (video)

The Timesonline
BBC-News

Romeo_and_Juliet

New evidence (three mysterious signatures on a parchment kept in the Venerable English College in Rome) prove that the Bard was a “secret Catholic”.

For more information:

The Times Online

The Telegraph

Catholic Education Resource Centre

Do teachers correct spelling? Do they think it is important to write correctly according to correct standard spelling? A debate is in progress in the UK. I personally think that teachers should mark their students’  spelling.

See what is happening in the UK on the Timesonline

Some researchers think that Edward De Vere really wrote what we all know as Shakespeare’s plays. But some of them think also that “Shakespeare” was only a pseudonym De Vere chose to remain anonymous for many reasons.

See what Matthew Cossolotto, Shakespeare Oxford Society President (2005-2009), says on About.com: Shakespeare

Dealing with the Pronunciation of a language we should keep in our mind the way people speak. Speaking involves different matters:

1. - what words people choose;
2. - how they put them into a structure, that’s to say their correct position;
3. - what meaning (or message) people think they are going to communicate; that’s to say if they match correctly the structure to its function in the social relationships;

But what is immediatly received by a listener is how the speaker pronounces, or the sounds he/she produces.

And Phonetics  is concerned with the sounds  of spoken language…As we know people do not speak exactly alike all over the world, especially according to different social status, geographical areas. All the human sounds in the speaking process are strictly related to the nature of the message, and if it is usefully received by he listener,  which is the  main target of communication. The effort of the phonetician is managing the different sound system each language in the world has. But also in the same country there are differences. Within English itself we can listen to different ways of speaking: American English, Scottish, Welsh or English accent. But even within each accent there are broader or less forms: no one English, but a variety. And the phonetician should study all the differences, but for all the foreign students of English a standard pronunciation is quite better.

Well, William Shakespeare used the language of his time and many of his words and phrases are still used today. He had an enormous influence on the developemnt of the English language. One of his most popular phrases used today is:

- There’s a method in my madness (from Hamlet)
This the modern version of the phrase. The actual line (1602) is Though this is madness, yet there is method in it (Polonius in Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2, 206). In this scene Polonius is really convinced of Hamlet’s disorder but in his speech he recognizes an order, a “method” something which is not madness…Words, words, words…,: a comic scene where Polonius feels worried and afraid for what and “how” Hamlet is reading (Act 2, scene 2, 197-205).

…and much more…

Do you know any other of phrases from Shakespere’s works?

Can books survive in today’s digital society? Printed books have been the only means to get pleasure or education for human beings. But today technological devices can be viewed as a threat. A lunch lecture will be held at the Darwin Lecture Theatre in London (Gower St.) by Ian Stevenson, UCL Centre for Publishing on March 11th 2010 from 13:15 to 13:55. Professor Stevenson’s lecture can be downloaded from UCL’s iTunesU from 7 days after the event.

For more information see http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:a4e-g32y7r7u-o276yr/ 

I personally think that printed books will never be replaced by digital devices oe better they should never be replaced. What a delicious smell when we open a book: simply paper but with great emotion as if the words were written direclty on it as scribes did before printing was invented. Ink, pen, print, paper and…smell of all of them mixed together to give greatness to the author’s emotions.

Ademario

What’s your opinion about such a threat?