William Shakespeare Sonnets

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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.

Sonnet No 11: As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st

10 Aug 2014

Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Dowland: The Battle Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 10: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any

9 Aug 2014

Read by Sonia Yee. Music details: R Johnson: Pavan Harmonia (Mundi 907257) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye?

8 Aug 2014

Read by Michael Hurst. Music details: Dowland: Pavan "Solus sine sola" (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

7 Aug 2014

Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Winter's Jump (Naxos 8.557586) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 7: Lo in the orient when the gracious light

6 Aug 2014

Read by Prue Langbein. This is one of the so-called "procreation sonnets", the first seventeen in the set in which the poet urges "the fair youth" to give himself an heir. Music Details: Dowland… Read more Audio
Sonnet No 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

5 Aug 2014

Read by John Callen (RNZ). Read more Audio
Sonnet No 5: Those hours that with gentle work did frame

4 Aug 2014

Read by Max Cryer. Read more Audio
Sonnet No 4: Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend?

3 Aug 2014

Read by Helen Medlyn. Read more Audio
Sonnet No 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

2 Aug 2014

Read by Stuart Devenie. Read more Audio
Sonnet No 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

1 Aug 2014

Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne. Read more Audio
Sonnet No 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase

31 Jul 2014

Read by Charles Pierard. Read more Audio

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William Shakespeare Sonnets

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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

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Sonnet No 11: As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st

Sonnet No 10: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any

Sonnet No 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye?

Sonnet No 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

Sonnet No 7: Lo in the orient when the gracious light

Sonnet No 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

Sonnet No 5: Those hours that with gentle work did frame

Sonnet No 4: Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend?

Sonnet No 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

Sonnet No 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

Sonnet No 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase

William Shakespeare Sonnets

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