Livre d'Or

Yeah, part of my motivation in putting the link in the poem was that I wanted to preserve the Crystal video so I can find it again. It's really very cool, and not far off what you're describing, he does a speech from R&J in traditional modern stage style followed immediately by original accent. But it's not quite a gradual morphing.

I think your idea of using Bible translations from different eras to do a gradually shifting text could work really well. Though pre Tyndale English Bibles tend to be patchy, I think; IIRC there is fairly complete coverage of the Gospels but not of most of Tanach.

And yes, festivals have been eating up all my spare time and then some until this week. I hope your succah entertaining went well, it sounded very logistical from what I saw on FB.