Shakespeare - The Complete Works: The Complete Plays, Sonnets & Poems

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This complete and unabridged collection of Shakespeare’s 37 plays, performed by The Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players, plus all of the 154 Sonnets combined with the 4 narrative poems comes together to create an ultimate collection in one boxset. The recordings feature celebrated actors such as Sir John Gielgud, Richard Pasco, Dame Prunella Scales, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Trevor Nunn, Oscar winner Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Patrick Wymarck, and more. ORIGINAL REVIEWS: Beautifully read, the music of the verse becomes explicit. – NEW YORK TIMES The job could hardly have been done better. – THE OBSERVER Argo’s fine series of complete Shakespeare recordings with the Marlowe Society has now firmly established the highest of standards. – THE GUARDIAN A great memorial to the greatest of playwrights. – NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE I regard it as an important triumph for the study of English verse that the director has been able to represent its actual structure. – NEW STATESMAN CONTENTS: All 37 plays spread over 93 discs 2 discs containing all 154 Sonnets 5 discs dedicated to the 4 narrative poems Dedicated website with additional information First edition certification 225 pages booklet includes: Foreword and historically accurate background notes edited by Professor Gordon McMullan, Kings College Article on the history of the Argo Shakespeare Recordings by Dr Tony Wakeford Historical content, photographs and press reviews from the original release. Full cast list for each play Synopsis of each play PERSONNEL: The Marlowe Society is one of Cambridge’s oldest and most prestigious drama societies. Since its creation in 1907, the society has had a profound influence on British theatre, both by producing some of the country’s most renowned actors and directors – including, among others, Trevor Nunn, Peter Hall, Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen – and by redefining the relationship between modern dramatists and early modern verse. Professor Gordon McMullan specialises in Shakespeare and early modern theatre and culture. He is a general textual editor of the Norton Shakespeare and a general editor of Arden Early Modern Drama. He also co-runs the London Shakespeare Seminar and is a longstanding member of the steering committee of the London Renaissance Seminar. The MA in Shakespeare Studies, taught jointly with Shakespeare’s Globe, created and convened by McMullan, celebrated its first decade in 2010. McMullan is a founding member of the London Shakespeare Centre, launched at King’s in 2009. SHAKESPEARE400: Shakespeare400 is a season of cultural and artistic events in 2016, celebrating four hundred years of Shakespeare, his creative achievement and his profound influence on creative culture across the centuries. It is the collective endeavour of a consortium of leading cultural, creative and educational institutions in and around London, working closely together to express the impact of Shakespearean creativity on a wide range of artistic forms. The season includes theatre, music, opera, dance, exhibitions and a range of educational events to help new audiences engage with Shakespeare’s work. The season is designed to demonstrate the ongoing vibrancy of Shakespeare’s creative influence in national and global culture. The Shakespeare400 partners include some of the best of London’s and the UK’s creative and cultural sector: Barbican, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Bloomsbury Publishing / The Arden Shakespeare, British Film Institute, British Library, City of London, City of London Festival, Film London, Glyndebourne, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Hogarth Shakespeare, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Museum of London, Museum of London Archaeology, National Theatre, Rambert, Royal Collection Trust, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Society of Literature, Senate House Library, Shakespeare's Globe and The National Archives. The season is coordinated by King’s College London, with academics from the university’s London Shakespeare Centre contributing their literary-critical, historical, dramaturgical and curatorial knowledge. Together, the consortium partners seek both to reflect on four centuries of Shakespeare-inspired creativity across all art forms and to look forward to the next hundred years in the global life of Shakespeare’s plays and poems. 37 Plays All’s Well That Ends Well A Midsummer Night’s Dream As You Like It Love’s Labour’s Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing Pericles The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of The Shrew The Tempest The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale Twelfth Night Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry V Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard III Antony and Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo & Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida All 154 Sonnets 4 Narrative Poems A Lover’s Complaint The Phoenix and The Turtle The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis