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 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead

9 Oct 2014

Read by Noelle Macarthy. Music details: Dowland: Mr Langton's Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect

8 Oct 2014

Read John Callen. Music details: Tobias Hume: Life (AliaVox AV 9837) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye

7 Oct 2014

Read by Paul Barret. Music details: John Taverner: In nomine (Virgin Classics VC 7 91216) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn

6 Oct 2014

Read by Elrich Hooper. Music details: Philip van Wilder: Arthur's Dump (Virgin Classics VC 7 91216) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live

5 Oct 2014

Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Almain (Margaret Board Lute ms.) (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 66: Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry

4 Oct 2014

Read by Stuart Devenie. Music details: Dowland: Lachrimae Pavan (Naxos 8.557862) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth

3 Oct 2014

Read by Jennifer Ward-Leyland. Music details: Dowland: Mr Knight's Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand

2 Oct 2014

Read by Noelle Macarthy. Music details: Dowland: Mr Langton's Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now

1 Oct 2014

Read George Henare. Music details: Dowland: A Fancy (Fantasie No 6) (Naxos 8.557586) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye

30 Sep 2014

Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: John Wilson: Prelude in A minor (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907257) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 61: Thy will thy image should keep open

29 Sep 2014

Read by Sonia Yee. Music details: Tobias Hume: Beccus an Hungarian Lord (AliaVox AV 9837) Read more Audio
Sonnet No 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore

28 Sep 2014

Read by Paul Barret. Music details: Dowland: Preludium (Naxos 8.557586) 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 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Sonnet No 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect

Sonnet No 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye

Sonnet No 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn

Sonnet No 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live

Sonnet No 66: Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry

Sonnet No 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth

Sonnet No 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand

Sonnet No 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now

Sonnet No 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye

Sonnet No 61: Thy will thy image should keep open

Sonnet No 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore

William Shakespeare Sonnets

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