A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare

Performed by Jack Ellis, Karen Archer, Benjamin Soames, Jamie Glover, Cathy Sara, Emily Raymond, Michael Maloney, Sarah Woodward, Ian Hughes, John Moffatt, Warren Mitchell, Peter Kenny, Don McCorkindale, David Timson, John Rye, Daisy Donovan, Emma Lindars, Sophie Nakhimoff, Laura Sheldon, and Dominic Kraemer

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Music: Purcell

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.

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

  

3 CDs • Running Time: 2:19:14 • ISBN: 9-62634-150-5 • Catalogue no: NA315012 • RRP: £13.99