Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC.Today we bring you a compendium with the best works of William Shakespeare in English. Orson Welles’ Radio Performances of 10 Shakespeare Plays 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free Read All of Shakespeare’s Plays Free Online, Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Libraryįree Online Shakespeare Courses: Primers on the Bard from Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley & More
What Shakespeare Sounded Like to Shakespeare: Reconstructing the Bard’s Original Pronunciation If you need to download Spotify, find it here.
You can access the Spotify playlist on the web here. In any case, there seem to be few barriers to actors and directors for approaching Shakespeare with new translations and with fresh eyes, ears, and costumes, again and again. Perhaps such a global approach to teaching Shakespeare in English would add nuance to debates about whether his work is still relevant in American high school and college classrooms.
Even in English it feels (forgive the puns) that all the world could be represented here, doing Shakespeare in every kind of English around the globe. But it is indeed a specific slice of the world. The value of such a collection is inestimable–68 hours of Shakespeare read and performed by some of the world’s finest actors. The actors represented–Sirs Gielgud, Olivier, and McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Edith Evans–are mostly English stage royalty, but we also have Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and actor Richard Burton, and Americans Paul Robeson, Rosalind Russell, and Orson Welles. The Spotify playlist above, brought to us by Ulysses Classical (makers of the Stanley Kubrick Playlist), presents a huge collection of recorded Shakespeare plays and poems, as well as the scores and incidental music for English-language productions. Even among the thousands of English-language adaptations of Shakespeare’s work we find an international diversity of speech.
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