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Do you happen to know where to find whole plays done in the original pronunciation? I'm not exactly bad at finding things on the internet, but I can't find any of Shakespeare's plays in their original pronunciation, or more than a tiny bit of Chaucer's Canterbury tales in spoken middle English.
I found this performance of As you like it on the wikipedia article. The quality of the video isn't great, but beyond that I can only find short excerpts in OP.
Here's the prologue of Romeo and Juliet. -- and here's a playlist by the same guy
A playlist of sonnets by polýMATHY
Sonnet 116
And short scene from Julius Caesar
Bonus, but unrelated: Here's The Lord's Prayer in old English
Thanks! I'd not found the 12th night or the sonnet before. I look forward to sitting down and watching it.