Tudor/Elizabethan English would not sound at all like our present day English and some have suggested that the accent of present day Virginia in the USA is closest to what English people sounded like, although I'm not sure about this theory. Language expert David Crystal coached actors at The Globe theatre in "original pronunciation" using phonetic scripts and you can hear some recordings at his website - http://www.pronouncingshakespeare.com/op-recordings/. A BBC report on actors' use of the phonetic scripts said:-
"They say their accents are somewhere between Australian, Cornish, Irish and Scottish, with a dash of Yorkshire - yet bizarrely, completely intelligible if you happen to come from North Carolina."
Interesting!
