Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Performed by Samuel West, Timothy West, Cathy Sara, and full cast

UNABRIDGED

Produced by Nicolas Soames

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This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the seventh Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

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: c.3½ hours • ISBN: 9-62634-205-6 • Catalogue no: NA320512 • RRP: £13.99