Via kottke.org, next month the University of Kansas will mount a production of A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream in Elizabethan era pronunciation, one of very few full productions ever staged. The English of Shakespeare’s period sounds tingly to me, so I welcome the effort.
I have one quibble with the rehearsal footage that Paul Meier and his students have made available: the team chose Dream because so many of the rhyming couplets don’t any more, neither in RP nor Standard American. But the performances are so focused on rhyme that pauses are introduced (however slight) at the ends of lines that are enjambed.