Shakespeare in OP

I LOVE Shakespeare! To me, Shakespeare's works are amazing stories that will definitely stand the test of time. They can also be hard to read / watch and thus hard to understand. The English language has changed and evolved since the time of Shakespeare, yet Shakespeare's works remain as they are - brilliantly written however not in today's language. 

There have, over the years, been many attempts to convert Shakespeare's plays to the modern era. Look at for instance the 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate About You (link) starring tragically brilliant Heath Ledger and the amazing Julia Stiles. Based on The Taming of the Shrew, this movie is set in modern-day USA with the characters speaking modern-day American English. Other Shakespeare adaptations set in the modern day or adapted to the modern day are for instance the 1994 animated movie The Lion King (link) which is/ seems based on Hamlet and 2006's Amanda Bynes / Channing Tatum movie She's The Man (link) based on Twelfth Night. A more detailed list of modern productions based on Shakespeare's works through this link or this Wikipedia article.

Adapting Shakespeare's words and works to the modern day is one way to make Shakespeare more accessible and understandable. What if we could turn that process around though? Instead of making Shakespeare come to us and changing something amazing, why don't we go to Shakespeare and adapt ourselves to better understand his writings? Impossible? Think again!

Shakespeare has always sounded quite "archaic" to me when performed and thus hard to understand. I've come to prefer reading Shakespeare to seeing / hearing it performed as I better understand the words this way.

Having seen the video embedded here (link to original), it looks like soon I'll be able to enjoy Shakespeare the way it was meant - acted out in front of an audience. Why? Because Shakespeare performed in the Original Pronunciation ("OP") is the answer to my hardship when it comes to understanding Shakespeare. Read / performed in OP, Shakespeare's words suddenly seem to flow and make sense much more than when performed in the better-known British accent. I've fallen in love with Shakespeare in OP. How about you?!