- Apr 2016
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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To this day, American actors can better represent the sound of Shakespeare than their British counterparts.
I didn't know that, that is really interesting how the American dialect is closer to Shakespeare's than a British dialect
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as the greatest playwright who ever lived is now as much an American as a British phenomenon
I couldn't tell from the title alone what this article was going to be about, what about Shakespeare's writing made him American. But some way through the second paragraph it is made obvious that just simply the fame he has in America, sets him in stone into our culture.
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First, there is the history of American public eloquence that culminates in Abraham Lincoln not only quoting from the plays in his first inaugural address, but also using the cadences of Shakespeare to connect with his audience
I never knew that some of Abraham Lincoln's speeches had taken parts from some of Shakespeare's work.
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“One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare,” he says, “is that his plays are not exclusively a national possession. He can become an emblem of that which you might possess if you actually could not trace your roots to the Mayflower.”
I like how he mentions the fact Shakespeare isn't only a British thing and that they are for anyone
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Four hundred years after the death of our national poet,
Opinion: I my opinion, I do not believe that Shakespeare is our national poet, when he is from Europe and dies in Europe. Shakespeare may have been an influence to our nation and to poetry, but he is not our national poet.
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his plays are not exclusively a national possession.
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as the greatest playwright who ever lived is now as much an American
I agree with this statement. Shakespeare even after his death is as popular in America as he is in Europe.
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