This is catnip for a Shakespeare fan like me:

[Aristus]

I've been dying to hear a performance of Shakespeare in the "Original Pronunciation"

http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/what-shakespeare-sounded-like-to-shakespeare.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. How interesting!

About the three types of evidence used to recreate OP:

Contemporary writings about the pronunciations, rhymes, etc.; spellings of words in the original texts; and rhymes and puns that don't work in modern English but do in OP.

Two thirds of his sonnets don't rhyme in ME but do in OP.

[Aristus]

2. I first started getting interested in how the spoken word sounded before the

advent of sound recording back during the '80's. Edwin Newman had a PBS Program called "The Story Of English". On one of the episodes, Newman and some linguistic scholars were studying the ways in which people wrote English phonetically back before standardized spelling; they spelled the way they heard the words being spoken. It led to some interesting vocal reconstructions of how people spoke English back then.