Album 2007 on Naxos Audiobooks label
Spoken Word (Poetry)
Track 44 encoded by ChapterMark (1.2.4) Unabridged. 15 page PDF included. Although the cover gives it as 'The Complete Text' these readings do not include either of the dedications (printed in the PDF) or the 'Argument' to The Rape Of Lucrece. Also available as 3xCD Naxos NA342912
William Shakespeare , 1564-1616 GB album by | |
David Timson voc, *1950 GB directed by, sleeve notes, read by, collatine | |
David Burke , narrator | |
Benjamin Soames , read by, adonis | |
Daniel Philpott , GB read by, brutus | |
Eve Best , *1971 GB read by, lucrece | |
Hugh Dickson , read by, lucretius | |
Ruth Sillers read by, maid | |
Oliver Le Sueur read by, tarquin | |
Clare Corbett , read by, venus |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | Venus And Adonis | William Shakespeare | ||
2 | Even As The Sun With Purple... | William Shakespeare | 5:08 | |
3 | Upon This Promise Did He Raise His Chin... | William Shakespeare | 5:19 | |
4 | By This The Love-Sick Queen Began To Sweat... | William Shakespeare | 5:01 | |
5 | But Lo! From Forth A Copse That Neighbours By... | William Shakespeare | 4:57 | |
6 | He Sees Her Coming, And Begins To Glow... | William Shakespeare | 4:33 | |
7 | ‘I Know Not Love,’ Quoth He, ‘Nor Will Know It...’ | William Shakespeare | 4:25 | |
8 | The Night Of Sorrow Now Is Turn’D To Day... | William Shakespeare | 4:14 | |
9 | Now Quick Desire Hath Caught The Yielding Prey... | William Shakespeare | 4:07 | |
10 | ‘Thou Hadst Been Gone,’ Quoth She, ‘Sweet Boy, Ere This...’ | William Shakespeare | 5:16 | |
11 | ‘Lie Quietly, And Hear A Little More...’ | William Shakespeare | 6:03 | |
12 | With This He Breaketh From The Sweet Embrace... | William Shakespeare | 3:26 | |
13 | This Said, She Hasteth To A Myrtle Grove... | William Shakespeare | 5:28 | |
14 | Here Overcome, As One Full Of Despair... | William Shakespeare | 4:40 | |
15 | As Falcon To The Lure, Away She Flies... | William Shakespeare | 6:15 | |
16 | She Looks Upon His Lips, And They Are Pale... | William Shakespeare | 4:46 | |
17 | The Rape Of Lucrece | William Shakespeare | ||
18 | From The Besieged Ardea All In Post... | William Shakespeare | 5:00 | |
19 | Now Thinks He That Her Husband’s Shallow Tongue... | William Shakespeare | 5:47 | |
20 | Now Stole Upon The Time The Dead Of Night... | William Shakespeare | 5:53 | |
21 | Thus, Graceless, Holds He Disputation... | William Shakespeare | 5:09 | |
22 | But All These Poor Forbiddings Could Not Stay Him... | William Shakespeare | 3:48 | |
23 | O, Had They In That Darksome Prison Died... | William Shakespeare | 4:49 | |
24 | Imagine Her As One In Dead Of Night... | William Shakespeare | 3:57 | |
25 | This Said, He Shakes Aloft His Roman Blade... | William Shakespeare | 4:38 | |
26 | Quoth She, ‘Reward Not Hospitality...’ | William Shakespeare | 6:14 | |
27 | This Said, He Sets His Foot Upon The Light... | William Shakespeare | 4:01 | |
28 | Even In This Thought Through The Dark Night He Stealeth... | William Shakespeare | 4:38 | |
29 | ‘O Night, Thou Furnace Of Foul-Reeking Smoke...’ | William Shakespeare | 5:04 | |
30 | ‘O Opportunity, Thy Guilt Is Great...’ | William Shakespeare | 3:50 | |
31 | ‘Why Hath Thy Servant, Opportunity...’ | William Shakespeare | 3:57 | |
32 | ‘O Time, Thou Tutor Both To Good And Bad...’ | William Shakespeare | 2:57 | |
33 | This Said, From Her Be-Tumbled Couch... | William Shakespeare | 3:52 | |
34 | Thus Cavils She With Every Thing She Sees... | William Shakespeare | 3:43 | |
35 | As The Poor Frighted Deer, That Stands At Gaze... | William Shakespeare | 4:10 | |
36 | This Plot Of Death When Sadly She Had Laid... | William Shakespeare | 3:50 | |
37 | By This, Mild Patience Bid Fair Lucrece Speak... | William Shakespeare | 4:11 | |
38 | Her Letter Now Is Seal’d, And On It Writ... | William Shakespeare | 5:42 | |
39 | For Much Imaginary Work Was There... | William Shakespeare | 4:56 | |
40 | Here Feelingly She Weeps Troy’s Painted Woes... | William Shakespeare | 4:51 | |
41 | Here, All Enrag’d, Such Passion Her Assails... | William Shakespeare | 3:20 | |
42 | And Now This Pale Swan In Her Watery Nest... | William Shakespeare | 3:26 | |
43 | Lo, Here, The Hopeless Merchant Of This Loss... | William Shakespeare | 4:20 | |
44 | Even Here She Sheathed In Her Harmless Breast... | William Shakespeare | 3:30 | |
45 | By This Starts Collatine As From A Dream... | William Shakespeare | 5:11 | |
46 | Venus And Adonis, The Rape Of Lucrece | William Shakespeare | ||
47 | Venus And Adonis, The Rape Of Lucrece | William Shakespeare | 3:18:17 |