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Article: Reading Aloud with Tom Hanks: A Reader's Perspective
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- Arthuriana
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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This article traces D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.'s skill as a reader of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English texts, with special attention to his research into reading Malory aloud and his patience in teaching others to read Le Morte Darthur in the received pronunciation of latefifteenth-century English. (PT)
In the summer of 1988, I first met Tom Hanks at the Sixth New Chaucer Society's Congress at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. But before I met him and saw it wasn't so, I thought it a little unfair that such an up-and-coming actor with almost a dozen films to his credit had also become a Middle English reader! And yet the acting skills seem to go with the name.
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