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William Shakespeare Sonnets
The complete Shakespeare sonnets, read by New Zealanders.
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Producer Matthew Crawford’s epic project consists of all the Shakespeare sonnets, each read by a New Zealander, first broadcast in 2009.
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Sonnet No 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
Read by Susan Curnow. Music details: Dowland: The Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
Shakespeare's forty-sixth sonnet, the first of two poems on the war and subsequent peace between "heart" and "eye".Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: Dowland: Mrs White's Nothing (Naxos… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 45: The other two, slight and purging fire
The second of two sonnets in which Shakespeare uses the idea of the four elements - in this case, air and fire. Read by Donagh Rees. Music details: Dowland: Sir John Smith, his Almain (Glossa GCD 920… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
Shakespeare's 44th sonnet is the first of two which use the idea of the four elements - in this case, earth and water. Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne Music details: Dowland-Dowland's Tears (I saw my lady… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 43: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
Read by Hewitt Humphrey. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
Read Stuart Devenie. Music details: Tobias Hume-The Duke of Holstone's Almain (AliaVox AV 9837) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
Read by George Henare. Music details: Dowland-Sir Robert Sidney, his Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Antonio Ferrabosco-Fantasia (Virgin Classics 91216). Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 39: Oh how thy worth with manners may I sing
Read by Elizabeth McRae Music details: Dowland-Mrs Nichols' Almain (Naxos 8.557586) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent
6 Sep 2014Read by Charlotte Graham [Topics] music, arts Music details: John Johnson-Galliard to the Delight Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
Read by Michael Hurst. Music details- Dowland: Pavana Johan Douland (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
Read by Susan Curnow. Music details- Peter Philips: Pavan (Virgin Classics 91216) Read more Audio
William Shakespeare Sonnets
Image: Lotus Carroll
Shakespeare words. Calamity Meg (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Book cover design by Mary Jane Gorton for William Shakespeare Sonnets: A selection illustrated by Mary Jane Gorton. Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press. c1970. PR2848.A2 P47 1970. Flickr/Crossett Library