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Shakespeare: The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Diana Rigg, Roy Dotrice, Prunella Scales, Timothy West, full cast
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William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.

For the first time, the complete works of Shakespeare are available to download as one. This collection includes all 37 plays, 4 narrative poems, and the sonnets.

Performed by an incredible array of the 20th century’s greatest actors, Ian McKellen, Timothy West, Diana Rigg, Derek Jacobi, Roy Dotrice, Prunella Scales, and many others can be heard in these recordings.

All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations.

This collection brings together all of Shakespeare’s works, including:
• A Lover's Complaint
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• All's Well That Ends Well
• Antony And Cleopatra
• As You Like It
• Coriolanus
• Cymbeline
• Hamlet
• Henry IV, Pt. 1
• Henry IV, Pt. 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI, Pt. 1
• Henry VI, Pt. 2
• Henry VI, Pt. 3
• Henry VIII
• Julius Caesar
• King John
• King Lear
• Love's Labour's Lost
• Macbeth
• Measure For Measure
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Othello
• Pericles, Prince Of Tyre
• Richard II
• Richard III
• Romeo And Juliet
• Sonnets
• The Comedy Of Errors
• The Merchant Of Venice
• The Merry Wives Of Windsor
• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• The Rape Of Lucrece
• The Taming Of The Shrew
• The Tempest
• The Two Gentlemen Of Verona
• The Winter's Tale
• Timon Of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
• Troilus And Cressida
• Twelfth Night
• Venus And Adonis

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I have always found Shakespeare’s work very good, though mostly the more famous works, so I thought, I’d take the plunge and get the whole works, and while I did enjoy the play like presentation, some of the Sonnets didn’t seem to sync with the listings, but the way the players presented the plays was excellent, I’m not a great reader, reading a physical book is not my forte, Dyslexia makes it quite a challenge, and the Tudor era language, is not exactly easy to get your head around, but having the audio of real Shakespeare players feed your brain the lines through the ears, and having the ability to stop, to check meanings when needed, or even replay a passage, to clear up your understanding, as well as the not losing your place on the page, every time you finish a line, as I am prone to do with physical books, making the reading a painfully slow experience, incredibly annoying, and off putting, this way is much more enjoyable, though I found some of the works we not particularly enjoyable, many were a pleasure, well done to all who took part.

Easy Going Shakespeare

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The works are ordered alphabetically.
If you opt to download by parts, they are divided as follows (unfortunately Audible is not preserving my formatting) -


***PART 1***
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Lover's Complaint and the Phoenix and the Turtle
All's Well That Ends Well
Anthony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Coriolanus (Part 1)

***PART 2***
Coriolanus (Part 2)
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2 (Part 1)

***PART 3***
Henry IV Part 2 (Part 2)
Henry V
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3 (Part 1)

***PART 4***
Henry VI Part 3 (Part 2)
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost (Part 1)

***PART 5***
Love's Labour's Lost (Part 2)
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Part 1)

***PART 6***
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Part 2)
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Sonnets 1-71

***PART 7***
Sonnets 71 - 154
The Comedy of Errors
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Rape of Lucrece
The Taming of the Shrew (Part 1)

***PART 8***
The Taming of the Shrew (Part 2)
The Tempest
The Twe Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida (Part 1)

***PART 9***
Troilus and Cressida (Part 2)
Twelfth Night
Venus and Adonis

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I love it but shame the majority of it sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom

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I used my free download and was delighted to get the complete Shakespeare canon. Disappointed.

The plays are in alphabetical, not chronological or even thematic order. The track breaks are not between acts, and sometimes split scenes.

There is ne additional information or cast lists.

The sound is very flat. It sounds like it was recorded with a single microphone in the middle of the actors sat round in a circle. The performances vary in quality. The leads are usually well performed, but some minor parts either sound like a first read through for words or are delivered in mummerset "yokel".

And that random trumpet becomes irritating.

Seems like a great bargain but isn't

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This is a brilliant collection of Shakespeare plays, but it’s almost impossible to listen to because of the frequent trumpet blasts. If you don’t agree, try listening to it through headphones.

Such a shame. Please release it again without them.

Ruined by trumpets

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