Shakespeare in original pronunciation

Joe Carter has an interesting article:

Professor’s research allows audience to hear Shakespeare’s words in his own accent:

“The audience will hear rough and surprisingly vernacular diction, they will hear echoes of Irish, New England and Cockney that survive to this day as ‘dialect fossils.’ And they will be delighted by how very understandable the language is, despite the intervening centuries.”

Here's what it sounds like:


And an explanation by Professor Paul Meier:



Interesting stuff.