Shakespeare Audio

Reading William Shakespeare is great, listening to a Shakespeare Audio is even better!

There are many recordings of Shakespeare plays, and some are truly great works of art, others are made by self proclaimed 'Shakespeare actors' who think they are up to the Bard's high standard, but miserably fail...

My favourite recordings for anything William Shakespeare has written, is BBC Audiobooks Ltd. After all, they are based where Shakespeare came from and the most famous Shakespeare stages are still in Great Britain!

Free Shakespeare Audio:

BBC Audiobooks has actually even prepared a free Shakespeare audio that allows anybody to enjoy some of these masterpieces. The voices that recite Shakespeare are of famous actors and highly reputed narrators:

Romeo & Juliet - Act I, Scene III

"O Romeo, Romeo - wherefore art thou Romeo". This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.

Hamlet - Act III, Scene I

'To be or not to be - that is the question….' In this BBC Sound Archive recording, Michael Redgrave stars as Shakespeare's troubled Prince of Denmark. 

Henry V - Act IV, Scene III

'This day is called the feast of Crispian….' In one of the most famous and inspirational of Shakespeare's speeches, Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!

King Lear - Act II, Scene IV

'I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad…' Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.

Macbeth - Act I, Scene VII

'If it were done when 'tis done…' From the BBC Sound Archives, one of Shakespeare's most famous and memorable speeches, with Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, bringing these ominous words vividly to life.

Macbeth - Act II, Scene II

'Is this a dagger which I see before me…..' With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life.

Richard III - Act I, Scene I

'Now is the winter of our discontent….' Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.

The Merchant Of Venice - Act IV, Scene I

'The quality of mercy is not strained….' In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.

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