In this video, I explore the limits of how far we can reconstruct the personal accent of William Shakespeare. Reconstructing an individual person's accent is impossible unless they left explicit phonetic descriptions or an audio recording, but reconstructing broad trends in regional accents is a lot easier - so in this video, I aim for a Warwickshire accent that a speaker living in Shakespeare's time might have had, with some phonetic features being more easily reconstructible than others.
My friend Scott's short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew_LB_wSgaw
A.Z. Foreman's blog post: https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2018/07/on-shakespeare-and-original.html
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