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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 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage
Read by Matthew Crawford. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
Read by Ilona Rodgers. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse
Read by Charles Pierard. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 20: A woman's face with nature's own hand
This poem has been the subject of much debate as to the nature of the love the poet expresses for the "Fair Youth", the figure to whom the first 126 sonnets are dedicated. Read by Stuart Devenie. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 19: Devouring time blunt thou the lion's paws
Read by Elric Hooper Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Read by Michael Hurst. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
That's the last of the "procreation sonnets", the seventeenth in the set, in which Shakespeare exhorted "the fair youth" to leave an heir. From here, the sonnets start to take a romantic hue - you'll… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Read by Jennifer Ward-Lealand Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 15: When I consider everything that grows
Read by Susan Curnow. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
13 Aug 2014Read by Bryan Crump. Music details: Hume: An Answere (AliaVox AV 9837) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 13: O that you were yourself, but love you are
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Gagliarda (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
Read by Hewitt Humphrey. Music details: J Johnson: La Vecchia Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) 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