It’s well worth convinced through these types of issues through Dolly Wells’ several Van Helsings
Because East European beast’s parasitic appropriation out of words extratextually allows towards non-local English-speaking Scandinavian actor’s monitor regarding mimicking an upper-classification English accent, throughout the Count’s first looks due to the fact aged vampire hiding in his castle, which screen out-of highlight ability was reduced so you can affecting the fresh label out-of a good ‘Slavic’ English accent. Actually, if the miniseries foregrounds the significance of code about Dracula facts (while the certain skill so when heterogenous linguistic makeup of your own Kingdom due to the fact shown lower than), it’s amazingly general from inside the portraying the new Count’s linguistic records, made all the more inconsistent by way of frequent allusions to Lugosi’s (Hungarian-accented) overall performance. She earliest displays a thick Germanic feature inside her 19 th century iteration since the Dutch detective-nun stationed for the Budapest, after that a beneficial ‘native’ English that while the Agatha’s modern British descendant Zoe. (more…)