When I linked to Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation, I wrote:

Someone also told me once that some American Southern accents are pretty close to “Original Pronunciation.”

Imagine my delight when my explorations led me to Jake Phillips, AKA The Cultured Bumpkin, who performs a variety of Shakespeare’s well-known monologues in Southern drawl.

While not terribly close to OP to my ear, it still sounds more accessible and less removed from the plain-spoken language that would have been common during Shakespeare’s time.

Also delightful: His full recording of Pride and Prejudice. From the opening “It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune, must be in want of a wife,” I was immediately transported to antebellum Georgia. Virtually, I mean, thank goodness.

I’m now very curious what a production of Pride and Prejudice set in the American South would look like.