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Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

English ⏱ 33m 20 chapters Free forever
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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)

Chapters

1
As You Like It (Act 2, Scene 7) : All the World’s a Stage
1m
2
Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 3) : To Thine Own Self Be True
1m
3
Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2) : What a Piece of Work Is Man
1m
4
Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1) : To Be or Not To Be
2m
5
Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 2) : Speak the Speech
2m
6
Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 2) : Bestrides the Narrow World
1m
7
Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : If You Have Tears Prepare To Shed Them Now
1m
8
Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : Friends, Romans, Countrymen
2m
9
Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : Let Me Not Stir You Up
1m
10
Julius Caesar (Act 5, Scene 5) : This Was the Noblest Roman of Them All
0m
11
King Henry V (Act 3, Scene 1) : Once More Unto the Breach
1m
12
King Henry V (Act 4, Scene 3) : This Day is Called the Feast of Crispian
1m
13
King Richard III (Act 1, Scene 1) : Now is the Winter of Our Discontent
2m
14
Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7) : If It Were Done
1m
15
Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 1) : Is This a Dagger
2m
16
The Merchant of Venice (Act 1, Scene 3) : Many a Time and Oft
1m
17
The Merchant of Venice (Act 3, Scene 1) : If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed
1m
18
The Merchant of Venice (Act 4, Scene 1) : The Quality of Mercy
1m
19
Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) : What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks
1m
20
Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) : Romeo, Romeo
1m