Richard III

by William Shakespeare

Performed by Kenneth Branagh with Geraldine McEwan, Nicolas Farrell, Stella Gonet, and Michael Maloney

UNABRIDGED

Produced by Nicolas Soames

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Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare’s strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks in association with Cambridge University Press.

Music: Janáćek

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.4 hours • ISBN: 9-62634-217-X • Catalogue no: NA321712 • RRP: £13.99