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The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne, Christopher Cazenove, Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, Elliott Gould, Samantha Eggar, Robert Foxworth, Joel Grey, Juliet Mills, Roger Rees
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- ian
- 27-03-19
Simply delightful
Every sonet is read clearly and with feeling. All the readers are perfect. A lovely book to listen too. To relax too. To appreciate.
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- Darwin8u
- 27-12-17
Fits infinity in a couplet
I really haven't read Shakespeare's sonnets in any consistent way since high school (where I read less than twenty and memorized two). It was fascinating to read all 154 from first to last as a whole connected work. One really gets a sense that English is a tool which almost all of us use, many often play with, but only Shakespeare owned. The Bard could bend a word, fit infinity in a couplet and drop the whole universe on a period.
21 people found this helpful
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- Michael
- 30-11-11
excellent cast
Shakespeare is to be heard rather than read.. Very enjoyable. Now back to Proust...
9 people found this helpful
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- joan crawford
- 13-01-17
Good but not great
An acceptable hodgepodge, uneven audio, some shockingly dull American accents amid fine British ones. The best is saved for the last, with several well-known sonnets after many less impressive choices.
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- Cristal
- 14-01-21
Excellent reading from world-class actors!
Excellent reading from world-class actors, many of whom you'll know from stage and screen. I was particularly struck by Vanessa Redgrave, and Elliot Goldenthal; but they're all amazing!
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- Phillip J. Fitzsimmons
- 24-05-20
It is nice
It is nice. The multiple readers give it variety. I liked it a lot more than the John Gielgud reading. A downside to this collection is that the volume is all over the place from reader to reader.
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- Gerald Seither
- 12-08-19
Nice cast and read with respect.
Shakespeare is meant to be heard not read if you truly want to learn how he thought.
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- Felix W. Tsai
- 24-08-12
This is Wonderful!
Where does The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I really like it and it's very different from our normal English so I would rated very high as above.
Who was your favorite character and why?
None!
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No!
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
"Full collection of The Shakespeare's Sonnets."
Any additional comments?
Maybe a little bit of background music inside because only talking and talking for hours isn't very interesting.
4 people found this helpful
