Here’s what Shakespeare’s plays sounded like with their original English accent


With the aim to highlight the differences that existed between the usage of English pronunciation in the present day world and the English spoken about four centuries ago, a popular linguist David Crystal and his actor son Ben Crystal, shot a short documentary in the original accent used by William Shakespeare. Watch the documentary to know the differences and how English has evolved over the course of 400 years. This was the play originally written by Shakespeare and the documentary depicts the way it was meant to be!