The verse sections might actually be performed well. So many contemporary actors have the awful habit of reciting verse intended to be more mellifluous than ordinary speech by instead flattening the rhythm and pitch of their voices and sounding like they have no idea what they're saying. (For example, Penny Dreadful, which I generally liked... the actors had such mellifluous, rhythmic voices that I thought they'd be great at reciting poetry. But no---even though the historical record is clear that Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson et cetera *intended* their poetry to be chanted in a manner between speech and song, these actors flattened their voices... with the notable exception of Eva Green, who being French probably realized how silly the modern Anglophone taboo against incantatory recitation of poetry in acting and forensics really is. One irony being that the melodramatic speaking-style of the British actors on that show owes a great deal to the incantatory performance of Shakespeare's verse as verse, and barely resembles the way just about anyone speaks, especially in the Victorian era---as we can hear from recordings of Tennyson, Browning, and others, they had it exactly backwards: conversational speech was flatter and faster, and poetry was more rhythmic and more song-like, at least among people who had heard or heard of Tennyson's famous readings, or who understood that Blake's "songs" really were intended to be either sung or rhythmically chanted. And Rothfuss himself reads in a very mellifluous way, and his poetry is largely metrical iirc.)
In retrospect, LMM's recent episode of Drunk History suggests a few striking similarities between Hamilton and Kvothe....
Interesting also that the series will be exploring parts of the world beyond what's in the books (so far).
This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 02 December 2016 - 03:09 AM
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