Hello everyone! This is a humble attempt at reading the famous Hamlet's monologue, "To be or not to be-" but with a little twist: and that is reading it in OP (Original Pronunciation).
I synchronized the text, which is taken from the First Folio, with my speech, added some footsteps sound effects, and put an echo on my voice so as to give the impression as if it were on a silent stage.
Original Pronunciation is, simply put, the way Elizabethans, hence Shakespeare, enunciated English speech sounds during the Renaissance (a.k.a Early Modern Era). It is not totally unfathomable to the modern ear. A great lot of correlations can be found between the two accents, but the Elizabethan one surely has its own taste. It is thanks to the famous linguist Dr. David Crystal and his "Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation" that this delightful pronunciation is revived.
