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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 83: I never saw that you did painting need...
Read by Frank Whitten. Music details: John Johnson: Carman's Whistle (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse...
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: John Johnson: Short Almain (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make...
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: John Johnson: Short Almain (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 80: O, how I faint when I of you do write...
Read by George Herare. Music details: Dowland: My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid…
17 Oct 2014Read by Keith Adams. Music details: Dowland: Preludium (Channel Classics CCS SA 21204) Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 78: So oft have I invok'd thee for my Muse…
16 Oct 2014Read by Max Cryer. Music details: Dowland: Sir John Smith, his Almain (Naxos 8.570449) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear…
15 Oct 2014Read by Geraldine Brophy. Music details: Dowland: A Dream (Naxos 8.557586) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride?...
14 Oct 2014Read by Jennifer Ward-Leyland. Music details: Dowland: Dowland's Adieu (Naxos 8.557862) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life
13 Oct 2014Read by Matthew Crawford. Music details: Dowland: The Early of Derby, his Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 74: But be contented: when that fell arrest…
12 Oct 2014Read by Charles Pierard. Music details: Tobias Hume: Touch me lightly (AliaVox AV 9837) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 73: That time of year when thou may'st in me behold…
11 Oct 2014Read by Elrich Hooper. Music details: Alfonso Ferrabosco: Pavan (Virgin VC 7 91216) [Topics] music, arts [Tags] Shakespeare, poetry Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite…
Read by Susan Curnow. Music details: Dowland: What If A Day (Glossa GCD 920 109) 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