Shakespeare's Accent: How Did The Bard Really Sound?
"To be or not to be" may be the question, but there's another question that's been nagging Shakespeare scholars for a long time: What did Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio, Portia or Puck really sound like when Shakespeare was first performed more than four centuries ago? The British Library has completed a new recording of 75 minutes of The Bard's most famous scenes, speeches and sonnets, all performed in …