Shakespeare: The Complete Works

In het kader van de viering van 400 jaar Shakespeare, brengt Decca deze luxueuze 'spoken word'-collectie uit. Met 37 toneelstukken, 154 sonnetten en 3 vehalende gedichten is de boxset de meest complete ooit uitgebracht. De stukken worden uitgevoerd door The Marlowe Dramatic Society en Professional Players.

'Beautifully read, the music of the verse becomes explicit.' – NEW YORK TIMES

'The job could hardly have been done better.' – THE OBSERVER

'Argo’s fine series of complete Shakespeare recordings with the Marlowe Society has now firmly established the highest of standards'. – THE GUARDIAN

Inhoud van Shakespeare: The Complete Works:

- 37 toneelstukken, verspreid over 93 cd's
- 2 cd's met 154 sonnetten
- 5 cd's met 3 verhalende gedichten
- Eerste editie certificaat
- boekje met 200 pagina's: voorwoord en historisch correcte achtergrond door professor Gorden McMullan, Kings College
- Artikel over de geschiedenis van Argo Shakespeare Recordings door Dr Tony Wakeford
- Historische content, foto's en persrecensies van de originele release
- Complete castlijst van elk toneelstuk
- Tijdlijn
- Index van de stukken
- Synopsis van elk toneelstuk


Komedies

All’s Well That Ends Well
CD 1-2
Features:
Max Adrian
Michael Hordern
Prunella Scales

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
CD 3-4
Features:
Ian McKellen
Trevor Nunn
Prunella Scales

As You Like It
CD 5-6
Features:
John Barton
Tony Church

Love’s Labour’s Lost
CD 7-8
Features:
Diana Rigg
Prunella Scales

Measure for Measure
CD 9-11
Features:
Derek Jacobi

Much Ado About Nothing
CD 12-13
Features:
Peggy Ashcroft
John Gielgud
Peter Pears

Pericles
CD 14-15
Features
Prunella Scales
Patrick Wymarck

The Comedy of Errors
CD 16-17
Features:
Denis McCarthy
Prunella Scales

The Merchant of Venice
CD 18-19
Features:
Donald Beves
Christine Baker

The Merry Wives of Windsor
CD 20-21
Features:
Tony Church
Patrick Wymarck

The Taming of The Shrew
CD 22-23
Features:
Peggy Ashcroft
David King

The Tempest
CD 24-25
Features:
Michael Hordern
Ian Lang

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
CD 26-27
Features:
John Barton
George Rylands

The Winter’s Tale
CD 28-29
Features:
Ian McKellen
Corin Redgrave

Twelfth Night
CD 30-31
Features:
Derek Godfrey
Peter Pears
Prunella Scales


Historische toneelstukken

Henry IV Part 1
CD 32-33
Features:
Corin Redgrave
Paul Scofield

Henry IV Part 2
CD 34-36
Features:
Derek Jacobi
Ian McKellen
John Wood

Henry V
CD 37-39
Features:
Ian McKellen
Trevor Nunn
Prunella Scales

Henry VI Part 1
CD 40-42
Features:
Richard Marquand
John Nettleton

Henry VI Part 2
CD 44-46
Features:
Trevor Nunn
Patrick Wymarck

Henry VI Part 3
CD 47-49
Features:
Richard Marquand
Patrick Wymarck

Henry VIII
CD 50-52
Features:
Frank Duncan
Trevor Nunn
Prunella Scales

King John
CD 53-55
Features:
Michael Hordern
Richard Marquand

Richard II
CD 56-58
Features:
John Barton
Irene Worth

Richard III
CD 59-61
Features:
Corin Redgrave
Prunella Scales

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra
CD 62-64
Features:
Ian McKellen
Diana Rigg
Prunella Scales

Coriolanus
CD 65-67
Features:
John Barton
Tony Church

Cymbeline
CD 68-70
Features:
Denis McCarthy
Trevor Nunn

Hamlet
CD 71-74
Features:
Miles Malleson
Trevor Nunn

Julius Caesar
CD 75-76
Features:
Tony Church
John Dover Wilson

King Lear
CD 77-79
Features:
William Devlin
Prunella Scales

Macbeth
CD 80-81
Features:
Derek Jacobi
Irene Worth

Othello
CD 82-84
Features:
Wendy Gifford
Irene Worth

Romeo & Juliet
CD 85-87
Features:
Corin Redgrave
Prunella Scales

Timon of Athens
CD 88-89
Features:
David Jacobi
Trevor Nunn
Corin Redgrave

Titus Andronicus
CD 90-91
Features:
Jill Balcon
William Devlin

Troilus and Cressida
CD 92-94
Features:
Wendy Gifford
Irene Worth


Sonnetten

CD 95-96
Features:
John Barton
Tony Church
George Rylands
Anthony White


Gedichten

A Lover’s Complaint
CD 97
Features:
Joan Hart
William Squire

The Rape of Lucrece
CD 98-99
Features:
Peggy Ashcroft

Venus and Adonis
CD 100
Features:
Irene Worth

The Phoenix and The Turtle
CD 97
Featuring John Burrow