A Shakespearean celebration, with readings by Dame Judi Dench, David Suchet, Emilia Fox and the late Jeffery Dench

A Shakespearean celebration, with readings by Dame Judi Dench, David Suchet, Emilia Fox and the late Jeffery Dench, and original musical interludes by Jackie Williams. Readings include extract speeches and soliloquies from Shakespeare's plays: As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Richard III, Hamlet, A Winter's Tale. Also featured are readings of sonnets 18, 29, 30, 87 and 116. A feast of Shakespeare from the prime of British acting talent.

Track Listing

• As You Like It ('all the world's a stage...')
• Sonnet 116 ('let me not to the marriage...')
• Antony & Cleopatra ('the barge she sat in...')
• Sonnet 87 ('farewell thou art too dear...')
• Romeo & Juliet ('but soft what light...')
• Henry V ('Once more unto the breach..')
• The Merchant of Venice ('The quality of mercy..')
• Sonnet 30 ('When to the sessions..')
• A Midsummer Night's Dream ('I pray thee give it me..')
• The Tempest ('come unto these...') ('full fathom five...')
• Romeo & Juliet ('farewell God knows...')
• Sonnet 18 ('shall I compare thee...')
• Richard III ('now is the winter of our discontent...')
• A Midsummer Night's Dream ('these are the forgeries...')
• The Merchant Of Venice ('he hath disgraced me...')
• Hamlet ('There is a willow..')
• Henry V ('O for a muse of fire..')
• Hamlet ('To be or not to be..')
• A Midsummer Night's Dream ('How happy some o'er..')
• Henry V ('Now entertain conjecture..')
• The Winter's Tale ('I would there were no age...')
• Antony & Cleopatra ('I dreamt there was an emperor..')
• Sonnet 29 ('When in disgrace..')
• The Tempest ('Now my charms..')

Additional Details

Label: EMR Dench Classics

Genre: Play

Language: English

Run Time: 59 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/08/16

UPC: 609728282578