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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
Now, why do people associate British accents with anything that has a 'medieval' feel? Could that have something to do with the enduring influence of Shakespeare? Readers view Shakespeare as representing Ye Olde England and he is their primary touching point for non-contemporary English usage. Hmmm?
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Tempting as that theory is, I think it would be easy to overstate the influence of the Bard in that way.
I think it has a lot more to do with the fact that in the English speaking world the cultural antecedents during the middle ages were largely in England.
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