The Globe Theater in London has been mounting some productions of the bard using the Original Pronunciation. To hear the players as Shakespeare's audience heard it is revealing and fun. The same applies for all poems. To hear them directly from the poet seems to be the ultimate performance possible. It is clearly useful to be able to hear poems played on original instruments, as it were, Prof. David Ley gives a fine tutorial on how to sound posh. As if anyone these days would want to sound like a toff.