That was the question recently posed by the Telegraph.
From the piece...
Inspired by working with Kevin Spacey, Sir Trevor Nunn has claimed that
American accents are "closer" than contemporary English to the
accents of those used in the Bard's day.
The eminent Shakespearean scholar John Barton has suggested that Shakespeare's
accent would have sounded to modern ears like a cross between a contemporary
Irish, Yorkshire and West Country accent.
Others say that the speech of Elizabethans was much quicker than it is in
modern day Shakespeare productions.
Well, now you can judge for yourself.
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