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William Shakespeare Sonnets
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 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Read by Hewitt Humphrey
Music details: J Wilson: Prelude in F (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907257) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time…
13 Nov 2014Read by Elric Hooper. Music details: Francis Cutting: Galliard (Virgin Classics 7 91216) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 105: Let not my love be called idolatry…
12 Nov 2014Text: Read Linda Cartwright. Music details: John Dowland:The King of Denmark, His Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 104: To me, fair friend, you can never be old ...
11 Nov 2014Read by Jennifer Ward-Lealand. Music details: John Johnson: Galliard to the Flat Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 103: Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth …
10 Nov 2014Read by George Henare. Music details: John Dowland: Mrs Nichols' Almain (Glossa GCD 920 109) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 102: My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming …
Read by Matthew Crawford. Music details: John Dowland: Piece without a title (Channel Classics CCS SA 21204) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends …
8 Nov 2014Text: Read by Geraldine Brophy Music details: Tobias Hume: Loves farewell (AliaVox AV 9837) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long…
Read by Stuart Devenie Music details: John Dowland: Galliard (P30) (Naxos 8.557862). Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 99: The forward violet thus did I chide...
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Round Battle Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109). Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 98: From you have I been absent in the spring...
Text: Read Paul Barrett. Music details: Dowland: Pavan 'La mia Barbara' (Naxos 8.570449). Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 97: How like a winter hath my absence been...
Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne. Music details: Dowland: Mr Dowland's Midnight (Naxos 8.557586). Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness...
Read by Cameron Rhodes. Music details: Dowland: Une Jeune Fillette (Glossa GCD 920 109). Read more Audio
William Shakespeare Sonnets
Image: Lotus Carroll
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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
