Hey, portenoporte. I was responding to this in the earlier post of yours: "hackneyed regional colloquialisms - which feel largely invented." I won't argue that they don't often ring strained and fake in the mouths of actors — although I'm not so sure they did when these works were new — but that isn't the point of yours to which I was responding. I was simply saying that although they may seem hackneyed and largely invented, we have reason to believe that they were authentic.
I've made the Shaw comparison myself here in the past. O'Neill did it a lot, too, as did (as has been noted in other posts in response to mine) many other playwrights and novelists, including Zora Neale Hurston.
Of course, I know that you know that lots of other writers did this. You're very knowledgeable. |
