Shakespeare in RP loses most of the raunchy jokes as an example of the above.
My highschool English teacher was horrified when she figured out why us boys were laughing when reading her copy of the first folio, our hick accent ment we were getting some of the jokes she didn't even notice.
Theme rhyming with sixteen in the Cranberry's song Zombie is another.
There was an effort to revive the Shakespearean pronunciation by David Crystal. You can see YouTube videos of David and his son Ben talking about it and reciting parts of Shakespeare to highlight the jokes and word play.
My highschool English teacher was horrified when she figured out why us boys were laughing when reading her copy of the first folio, our hick accent ment we were getting some of the jokes she didn't even notice.
Theme rhyming with sixteen in the Cranberry's song Zombie is another.