A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare


Lu par Martin Clifton

(4.4 stars; 18 reviews)

This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a man who seemed to know everything about human nature and as Orson Welles said ‘he speaks to everyone and we all claim him’. I know that it has been said that ‘it is impossible to be a great Shakespearian actor without an idiosyncratic and extraordinary voice’ and this may be so, but that does not preclude ordinary mortals from reading, hearing and enjoying Shakespeare. (Summary by Martin Clifton) (0 hr 33 min)

Chapitres

As You Like It (Act 2, Scene 7) : All the World’s a Stage 1:41 Lu par Martin Clifton
Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 3) : To Thine Own Self Be True 1:36 Lu par Martin Clifton
Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2) : What a Piece of Work Is Man 1:24 Lu par Martin Clifton
Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1) : To Be or Not To Be 2:01 Lu par Martin Clifton
Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 2) : Speak the Speech 2:11 Lu par Martin Clifton
Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 2) : Bestrides the Narrow World 1:47 Lu par Martin Clifton
Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : If You Have Tears Prepare To Shed Them Now 1:51 Lu par Martin Clifton
Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : Friends, Romans, Countrymen 2:01 Lu par Martin Clifton
Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : Let Me Not Stir You Up 1:22 Lu par Martin Clifton
Julius Caesar (Act 5, Scene 5) : This Was the Noblest Roman of Them All 0:41 Lu par Martin Clifton
King Henry V (Act 3, Scene 1) : Once More Unto the Breach 1:55 Lu par Martin Clifton
King Henry V (Act 4, Scene 3) : This Day is Called the Feast of Crispian 1:43 Lu par Martin Clifton
King Richard III (Act 1, Scene 1) : Now is the Winter of Our Discontent 2:18 Lu par Martin Clifton
Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7) : If It Were Done 1:47 Lu par Martin Clifton
Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 1) : Is This a Dagger 2:06 Lu par Martin Clifton
The Merchant of Venice (Act 1, Scene 3) : Many a Time and Oft 1:27 Lu par Martin Clifton
The Merchant of Venice (Act 3, Scene 1) : If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed 1:36 Lu par Martin Clifton
The Merchant of Venice (Act 4, Scene 1) : The Quality of Mercy 1:26 Lu par Martin Clifton
Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) : What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks 1:28 Lu par Martin Clifton
Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) : Romeo, Romeo 1:10 Lu par Martin Clifton

Critiques

Great performance


(5 stars)

enjoyed everyone. Let's have some more, Martin - plenty of my favourites still out there.