Recreating 17th Century England – Virtually and Live on Stage

Here are two significant posts for Language and Literacy educators recently, concerning 21st century attempts to recreate experiences in 17th century England. First is the award-winning virtual world of pre-Great Fire London from Leichester’s De Montfort University: Pudding Lane Production.

Next, British linguist David Crystal and his son Ben present their research into the Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare’s plays, courtesy of Open Culture: What Shakespeare sounded like… to authenticate the experience of seeing a 17th century play in modern times.