Shakespeare Sonnet 2 in Original Pronunciation "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow"

Shakespeare's Sonnet in Original Pronunciation, read by Luke Amadeus Ranieri, based off of the research by David Crystal and Ben Crystal (see links below). The text picture is a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto, the first publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Audio file at SoundCloud:   / luke-ranieri  

David Crystal's Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019...

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polýMathy Shakespeare Sonnet 1:
   • Shakespeare Sonnet 1 in Original Pron...  

polýMathy's guide to OP:
   • Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation  

NativLang's video on Shakespearean pronunciation:
   • What Shakespeare's English Sounded Li...  

Wikipedia article on the Great Vowel Shift:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_V...

David and Ben Crystal explain Original Pronunciation (OP):
   • Shakespeare: Original pronunciation (...  

Ben Crystal recites Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in OP:
   • Original Pronunciation - Hamlet | To ...  

Paul Meier's Original Pronunciation Tutorial PDF:
http://paulmeier.com/OP.pdf

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The book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:
http://amzn.to/2nVUfqd

Music: "Banquet for Shylock" by Jocelyn Pook from the film The Merchant of Venice (2004)

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