David reads a number of Shakespeare's sonnets on the new audio collection From Shakespeare - with love.
The edition contains 75 of Shakespeare’s finest sonnets and is released to coincide with the 400th anniversary of their first publication in 1609.
It is read by a whole host of leading actors including Juliet Stevenson and Anton Lesser.
David introduces and concludes the collection, and reads 8 of the sonnets as follows:
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st
Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
It is released on 1st April 2009 from www.naxosaudiobooks.com
The edition contains 75 of Shakespeare’s finest sonnets and is released to coincide with the 400th anniversary of their first publication in 1609.
It is read by a whole host of leading actors including Juliet Stevenson and Anton Lesser.
David introduces and concludes the collection, and reads 8 of the sonnets as follows:
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st
Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
It is released on 1st April 2009 from www.naxosaudiobooks.com