The Essential Shakespeare Live [4 CDs] / Royal Shakespeare Company

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Opus Arte
Release Date
April 29, 2016
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      SHAKESPEARE
    • PERFORMER
      Annis, Ashcroft, Beale, Cox, Cusack, Dench, Fearon, Hinds, Holm, Howard, Jacobi, James, Kingsley, La
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 29, 2016
    • UPC
      809478090427
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      OA CD9042BD
    • LABEL
      Opus Arte
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Coriolanus, Act III Scene 3

      Performer: Laurence Olivier, Harry Andrews, Michael Blakemore, Kenneth Gilbert, Peter Woodthorpe, Paul Hardwick

    2. Henry VI Part III, Act I Scene 4: The Wars of the Roses

      Performer: Donald Sinden, Peggy Ashcroft, John Corvin

    3. King Lear, Act IV Scene 6

      Performer: Paul Scofield, Brian Murray, John Laurie

    4. Hamlet, Act III Scene 1

      Performer: David Warner

    5. Twelfth Night, Act II Scene 5

      Performer: Donald Sinden, Tony Church, Alton Kumalo, Jeffery Dench

    6. Julius Caesar, Act I Scene 2

      Performer: Patrick Stewart, John Wood

    7. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II Scene 5 (music by G. Woolfenden)

      Performer: Janet Suzman, Joseph Charles, Rosemary McHale, Sidney Livingstone, Jeremy Barlow, Gordon Kempler, Charles Fullbrook, Tony McVey, Peter Washtell, Robin Weatherall

    8. Richard II, Act IV Scene 1

      Performer: Richard Pasco, Sebastian Shaw, Ian Richardson, Clement McCallum

    9. Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 2

      Performer: Ian McKellen, Francesca Annis, Marie Kean

    10. Henry V, Act I: Prologue

      Performer: Emrys James

    11. Henry V, Act I Scene 2

      Performer: Alan MacKenzie Howard, Oliver Ford Davies, Edwin Richfield

    12. The Comedy of Errors, Act III Scene 2

      Performer: Roger Rees, Michael Williams

    13. The Tempest, Act V Scene 1

      Performer: Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance

    14. King Richard III, Act I Scene 2

      Performer: Antony Sher, Penny Downie

    15. As You Like It, Act II Scene 7

      Performer: Joseph O'Conor, Alexander Wilson, Alan Rickman, Hilton McRae, Andrew Yeats

    16. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II Scene 1 (music by J. Sams)

      Performer: Janet Dale, Lindsay Duncan, Christopher Lacey, Victor Slaymark, Steve Pierce, Peter Whittaker, Roderick Teale, Brian Newman, Duncan Hollowood, David Hissey, Peter Chapman, Benjamin Grove, Tim Higgs, Peter Washtell, Tony McVey

    17. Titus Andronicus, Act III Scene 2

      Performer: Brian Cox, Donald Sumpter, Jeremy Gilley

    18. Henry IV Part I, Act V Scene 1 (music by E. Gregson)

      Performer: Robert Stephens, Michael Maloney, Tony McVey, Bernard Shaw

    19. Henry VI Part III, Act II Scene 5

      Performer: David Oyelowo

    20. All's Well That Ends Well, Act I Scene 3 (music by P. Englishby)

      Performer: Judi Dench, Arthur Kohn, Claudie Blakley, Jill Heartfield, Bruce O'Neil

    21. Othello, Act I Scene 3

      Performer: Ian Holm, Paul Hardwick, Paul Robeson, Mary Ure

    22. Henry IV Part I, Act II Scene 4

      Performer: Ian Holm, Hugh Emrys Griffith, Clive Swift, Patience Collier

    23. The Winter's Tale, Act V Scene 3 (music by G. Woolfenden)

      Performer: Barrie Ingham, Elizabeth Spriggs, Richard Pasco, Judi Dench, Nicholas Selby

    24. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II Scene 1 (music by R. Peaslee)

      Performer: Alan MacKenzie Howard, Ben Kingsley, Frances J. de Lautour, John Kane, Tony McVey, Robin Weatherall

    25. Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV Scene 3

      Performer: Ian William Richardson

    26. The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 1

      Performer: John Darrell, William Armstrong, David Suchet, David Waller

    27. Measure for Measure, Act III Scene 1

      Performer: Juliet Stevenson, Oliver Ford Davies, Daniel Massey, John Nolan

    28. Macbeth, Act I Scene 7 (music by G. Burgon)

      Performer: Jonathan Pryce, Sinéad Moira Cusack, Brian Newman, Duncan Hollowood

    29. Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV Scene 1

      Performer: Roger Allam, Susan Fleetwood

    30. Troilus and Cressida, Act V Scene 1

      Performer: Ciaran Hinds, Paterson Joseph, Simon Russell Beale

    31. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II Scene 3

      Performer: Richard Moore

    32. Henry VIII, Act II Scene 4: All is True

      Performer: Robert Whitelock, Barry Aird, Paul Jesson, Jane Lapotaire, Ian Hogg, Darrell D'Silva, David Hobbs

    33. Timon of Athens, Act IV Scene 3

      Performer: Michael Pennington, Richard McCabe

    34. King John, Act III Scene 3

      Performer: Guy Henry, Trevor Cooper, Alison Fiske

    35. Pericles, Act V Scene 1 (music by S. Davey)

      Performer: Kananu Kirimi, Ray Fearon, Roger Frost, Tom Beard, Christopher Lacey

    36. The Taming of the Shrew, Act II Scene 1

      Performer: Ian Gelder, Jasper Britton, Alexandra Gilbreath

    37. Cymbeline, Act II Scene 2

      Performer: Emma Fielding, Esther Ruth Elliott, Anton Lesser

    38. Antony and Cleopatra, Act III Scene 13

      Performer: Nick Court, Harriet Walter, Patrick Stewart, Ken Bones, Rob Carroll

    39. King Lear, Act V Scene 3

      Performer: Ian McKellen, Jonathan Hyde, Ben Meyjes, Julian Harries, Richard Goulding, Ben Addis

    40. Henry V, Act V Scene 2

      Performer: Geoffrey Streatfeild, Alexia Healy, Hannah Barrie

    41. Hamlet, Act II Scene 2

      Performer: Oliver Ford Davies, David Tennant, Sam Alexander, Tom Davey


A selection of 40 scenes and speeches performed in live Royal Shakespeare Company productions from 1959 to thre present day. Performers include Judi Dench, Ciaran Hinds, Ian Holm, Derek Jacobi, Alan Rickman, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, Anton Lesser, Paul Robeson, Laurence Olivier, Sinead Cusack, and more. (Opus Arte)