SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

A 2-CD set features historic recordings of celebrated people in the arts, drama, the sciences, sport and exploration. Shakespeare-related items include Ellen Terry as Ophelia and Sir Henry Irving as Richard III.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Audio

Year of release

2012

Duration

139 mins

Availability

out of distribution

Credits

Cast

Ellen Terry	Ophelia
Henry Irving	Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard

Additional Details

Production type

Sound Recordings(Commercial)

Plays

Hamlet; Richard III

Subjects

Drama; History; Literature; Media studies; Science

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

CD 1
1. Maud: A Monodrama - final stanza from Part 1 - Alfred Tennyson; 2. The greatest show on earth - Phineas T[aylor] Barnum; 3. Thoughts from the book For Every Day - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 4. Extract from Shakespeare’s Richard III Act 1 Scene 1 - Henry Irving; 5. After dinner toast at Little Menlo - Arthur Sullivan; 6. Extract from Racine’s Phedre Act 2 Scene 5 - Sarah Bernhardt; 7. Ophelia’s mad scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet - Ellen Terry; 8. Conan Doyle Speaking - Arthur Conan Doyle; 9. Speech at banquet of Royal Institute of British Architects - Giles Gilbert Scott; 10. My cricket record - John Berry Hobbs; 11. Lawn tennis - Suzanne Lenglen; 12. Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships - men’s singles final, 1936 - [John] Frederick Perry; 13. How I began - Stanley Matthews; 14. The four minute mile - Roger Bannister;
15. On first cross-channel flight - Louis Bleriot; 16. My world’s record - Malcolm Campbell; 17. To Australia and back in six minutes - Alan J. Cobham; 18. How I flew round the World - Mildred Mary Petre; 19. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s address before the Press Club at Washington D.C. - Charles A. Lindbergh; 20. The story of my flight - Amy Johnson

CD 2
1. On receiving freedom of City of London - Henry Morton Stanley; 2. The Discovery of the North Pole - Robert E. Peary; 3. How I reached the Pole - Frederick A. Cook; 4. The tomb of Tutankhamen: the discovery of the tomb - Howard Carter; 5. A description of the dash for the South Pole - Ernest H. Shackleton; 6. The voice of the telephone - Thomas A. Watson; 7. For the Luncheon at Olympia commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Daily Mail - Alfred Charles William Harmsworth; 8. First transatlantic message by wireless telegraphy - how he received the signal - Guglielmo Marconi; 9. Inauguration of BBC Empire Service - John Charles Walsham Reith; 10. An Attempt to Explain the Radioactivity of Radium - William Thomson; 11. Electricity and progress - Thomas Alva Edison; 12. Lecture 36: Time and Space - Oliver Lodge; 13. Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud; 14. Transmutation of the atom - Ernest Rutherford; 15. The post-war world - Albert Einstein; 16. Talk on Antibiotics from 1900-1950 - Alexander Fleming; 17. First flight of the Gloster-Whittle E. 28 - Frank Whittle; 18. Nobel Prize winners - Francis Harry Compton Crick

Distributor

Name

British Library Online Shop

Email

bl-shop@bl.uk

Web

http://shop.bl.uk/mall/departmentpage.cfm/BritishLibrary/87294/1/1 External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7412 7735

Address

96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

Notes

A range of audio publications related to the collections of the British Library’s Sound Archive. Historical topics, wildlife sounds, world music, art and literature are particularly strongly represented. There are also a few DVDs, videos and CD-ROMs based on holdings in the BL. Some of the titles are available for paid audio download.

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