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Damian Lewis as Antony
in Julius Caesar:
'Friends, Romans, countrymen'
Shakespeare Solos
G 3 May 2016
Damian Lewis as Antony in Julius Caesar:
'Friends, Romans, countrymen'
Shakespeare Solos
Video
Guardian Cultures 3 May 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare’s death,
we asked leading actors
to perform key
speeches from his plays.
Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony’s lines
from Act III, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar.
Antony has been granted permission to speak
at Caesar’s funeral
so long as he does not implicate the conspirators in
his death,
but he skilfully turns the crowd against
them.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q89MLuLSJgk
Zawe Ashton as Jacques in As
You Like It:
‘All the world’s a stage’
Shakespeare Solos
G 3 May 2016
Zawe Ashton as Jacques in As You Like It:
‘All the world’s a stage’
Video
Shakespeare Solos Guardian Culture 3 May 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare’s death,
we asked leading actors to perform key
speeches from his plays.
Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques’s lines
on
the seven ages of man
from Act II, Scene 7 of As You Like It.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXZhASNTKt4
Riz Ahmed as Edmund in King Lear:
'Now, gods, stand up for bastards'
Shakespeare Solos
G 3 May 2016
Riz Ahmed as Edmund in King Lear: 'Now,
gods, stand up for bastards'
Shakespeare Solos
Guardian Culture 3 May 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare’s death,
we asked leading actors to perform key
speeches from his plays.
Here, Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy
from the start of Act I, Scene 2 in King
Lear.
Edmund reflects upon being an illegitimate
son
and plots against his half-brother, Edgar.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-epojal7nE
Paterson Joseph as Shylock:
'You call me misbeliever'
Shakespeare Solos
G 3 May 2016
Paterson Joseph as Shylock: 'You call me
misbeliever'
Shakespeare Solos
Guardian Culture 3 May 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare’s death,
we asked leading actors to perform key
speeches from his plays.
Here, Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines
from The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 3,
in which the moneylender responds to a
request for a loan
by reminding his adversary, Antonio,
of the
times he has insulted him.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vSR6W8_uBU
Laura Carmichael as Portia:
'The quality of mercy'
Shakespeare Solos
G 3 May 2016
Laura Carmichael as Portia: 'The quality of
mercy'
Shakespeare Solos
Guardian Culture 3 May 2016
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmmBT_4dmI0
*Samuel West as Henry V:
'Upon the king'
Shakespeare Solos
G 29 February 2016
Samuel West as Henry V: 'Upon the king'
Shakespeare Solos Guardian Culture
29 February 2016
Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy from
Act IV, Scene 1.
On the night before battle,
Henry reflects upon the public’s
expectations of the king.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USQvp7skuTY&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g&index=8
Joanna Lumley as Viola in
Twelfth Night:
'I left no ring with her'
Shakespeare Solos
G 29 February 2016
Joanna Lumley as Viola in Twelfth Night: 'I
left no ring with her'
Shakespeare Solos
Guardian Culture 29 February 2016
Joanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy
from
Twelfth Night, act II, scene 2.
Viola, disguised as a page boy,
wonders why the countess Olivia
has sent her a ring
and whether Olivia has
fallen in love with her.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg1qTs5pdeM&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g&index=7
Daniel Mays as Macbeth:
'Is
this a dagger which I see before me?'
Shakespeare solos
G 9 February 2016
Daniel Mays as Macbeth: 'Is this a dagger
which I see before me?'
Shakespeare solos
Guardian Culture 29 February 2016
Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from act
II, scene 1.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOjf9S4alv0&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g&index=9
Sacha Dhawan as
Shakespeare's Parolles:
'Are you meditating on virginity?'
Shakespeare Solos
G 29 February 2016
Sacha Dhawan as Shakespeare's Parolles: 'Are
you meditating on virginity?'
Shakespeare Solos
Guardian Culture 29 February 2016
Sacha Dhawan delivers an edited version
of Parolles’s lines from the first scene
of
All’s Well That Ends Well.
Parolles urges Helena to consider
the importance of losing one’s virginity.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z16KV7VxfIg&index=10&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g
David Threlfall as Prospero
in The Tempest:
'Our revels now are ended'
Shakespeare Solos
G 29 February 2016
David Threlfall as Prospero in The Tempest:
'Our revels now are ended'
Shakespeare Solos
Guardian 29 February 2016
David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s lines
from
The Tempest, act IV, scene 1.
As a masque comes to its close,
the sorcerer contemplates the end of life
– and the playwright, perhaps,
considers the
end of his career
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNTAsC8qQ0&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g&index=11
Camille O'Sullivan as
Constance in King John:
'Thou art not holy'
Shakespeare Solos
G 29 February 2016
Camille O'Sullivan as Constance in King
John: 'Thou art not holy'
Shakespeare Solos
The Guardian 29 February 2016
Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King
John, Act III, Scene 4.
Constance laments the loss of her son,
Arthur,
who has been captured,
but disputes the suggestion that she has
gone mad.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAZju8RbiI&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g&index=12
David Morrissey as Richard III:
‘Now is the winter of our
discontent’
Shakespeare Solos
G 5 February 2016
David Morrissey as Richard III: ‘Now is the winter of our
discontent’
Shakespeare Solos
Guardian Culture 5 February 2016
David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III
in which the scheming Richard lays out his plan to turn his brothers,
the Duke of Clarence and the newly enthroned King Edward IV,
against each
other.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfaVYn1v4jM&index=5&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g
Adrian Lester as Hamlet:
‘To be or not to be’
Shakespeare
Solos G 1 February 2016
Adrian Lester as Hamlet: ‘To be or not to be’
Shakespeare
Solos Guardian Culture
1 February 2016
Adrian Lester speaks Hamlet’s soliloquy from act III, scene 1,
in which the prince reflects on mortality
and considers taking
his own life.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLAzfQDS3M&index=1&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g
Joanna Vanderham as Juliet:
‘The mask of night is
on my face’
Shakespeare Solos
G 2 February
2016
Joanna Vanderham as Juliet: ‘The mask of night is on my face’
Shakespeare Solos Guardian Culture
2 February 2016
Joanna Vanderham speaks Juliet’s monologue
from the balcony scene in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMeZiZeipVw
Roger Allam as King Lear:
‘Blow, winds, and crack
your cheeks’
Shakespeare Solos
G 3
February 2016
Roger Allam as King Lear: ‘Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks’
Shakespeare Solos Guardian Culture
3 February 2016
Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy.
Lear is on the heath during a symbolic storm
The ageing king curses the weather and his daughters,
and laments his frailty.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn955417swY&index=3&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g
Ayesha Dharker as Shakespeare’s Titania:
‘The
forgeries of jealousy’
Shakespeare Solos
G 29 January 2016
Ayesha Dharker as Shakespeare’s Titania: ‘The forgeries of
jealousy’
Shakespeare Solos Guardian
Culture 29 January 2016
Here, Ayesha Dharker plays Titania,
the queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Titania has quarrelled with Oberon, king of the fairies.
As the pair have control over the weather,
their argument leads to a vision of nature’s chaos.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XURRdGdX188&list=PLlfYT-Za_x2JuweuLmpYfi1AXhUNKz32g&index=6
Eileen Atkins as Emilia in Othello:
‘If wives do
fall’
Shakespeare Solos
G 4 February 2016
Eileen Atkins as Emilia in Othello: ‘If wives do fall’
Shakespeare Solos Guardian Culture
4 February 2016
Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene 3.
Emilia, Iago’s wife, counsels Desdemona on marriage and fidelity.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEU6mB7Twk
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Richard Barnfield
baptized 29 June 1574 – 1620
English poet.
His obscure though close
relationship
with William Shakespeare
has long made him interesting
to scholars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Richard_Barnfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Richard_Barnfield
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