Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Shakespeare (selections)

William Shakespeare

Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Shakespeare

Read by Simon Russell Beale, Estelle Kohler, Clifford Rose, Sarah Woodward, and Daniel Philpott

selections

To be or not to be… Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow… O for a Muse of Fire… The quality of mercy is not strained… This sceptred isle… Once more unto the breach dear friends… Many of Shakespeare’s greatest and best-loved speeches are brought together in this superb collection, performed by outstanding artists who bring to vivid life words which are an integral part of our language, our culture and our everyday lives.

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2 CDs | Running Time: 2h 07m | ISBN: 978–962–634–015–8 | Cat. no.: NA201512 | RRP: £10.99RRP:£10.99 GBPSRP: US $ 17.98RRP:£10.99 GBP

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PODCAST

Speak the Speech...

Speak the Speech...
In a talk given at the 2008 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, David Timson, director of four Naxos AudioBooks Shakespeare recordings and author of Shakespeare Stories, surveys the changing styles of Shakespeare performance through recordings starting with Henry Irving in the 1890s through to Kenneth Branagh in the twenty-first century.

Speak the Speech... (MP3, 58 min., 20 MB)
Accompanying notes (PDF, 120 KB)

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