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Arkangel Shakespeare

{{Short description|Series of audio drama presentations of William Shakespeare's plays}}

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The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare is a notable series of audio-drama presentations of 38 of William Shakespeare's 39 plays.

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The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare is a notable series of audio drama presentations of 38 of William Shakespeare's 39 plays.{{efn-ua|The series does not include Edward III, as that play has only recently been accepted, albeit with some dissent, as part of the Shakespeare canon.}} The recordings were released from 1998 onwards, first on audio cassette and then later on CD.

The plays are unabridged and based on The Complete Pelican Shakespeare, published by Penguin Classics. The music for all the plays was written and produced by composer Dominique Le Gendre.{{Cite web|last=Issue 46|first=Bruce Paddington {{!}}|date=2000-11-02|title=Dominique Le Gendre — Shakespeare and me|url=https://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-46/shakespeare-and-me|access-date=2020-12-30|work=Caribbean Beat}} The production features nearly 400 actors, almost all past or present members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare won the 2004 Audie Award for "Best Audio Drama".{{Cite web|url=https://www.audiopub.org/winners/2004-audies|title=2004 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)|website=www.audiopub.org|access-date=2017-08-27|archive-date=2022-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821025106/https://www.audiopub.org/winners/2004-audies|url-status=dead}}

The logo on the box cover features a figure of Shakespeare composed entirely from books, reminiscent of the Renaissance Italian painting The Librarian by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

The project spanned five years and cost $3 million. The series represents the collective vision of four individuals: Tom Treadwell, a Shakespeare scholar; Bill Shepherd, a film producer; Clive Brill, producer and director at the BBC; and Dominique Le Gendre, a composer.

The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare was published by Audio Partners.{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20030407/35927-to-buy-or-not-to-buy.html | title=To Buy or Not to Buy? }}

The cast members of each play are listed below.

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''[[All's Well That Ends Well]]''

  • Emily Woof – Helena
  • Sam West – Bertram
  • Edward de Souza – Parolles
  • Maggie Steed – Countess
  • Clive Swift – King of France
  • Denys Hawthorne – Lafew
  • Aidan Gillett – Lavatch
  • Nicholas Murchie - Interpreter
  • John Warnaby - First French Lord
  • Michael Higgs - Second French Lord
  • Rebecca Saire – Diana
  • Jenny Howe – Widow
  • Gavin Muir - Duke of Florence
  • Charlotte Harvey - Mariana
  • Scott Cherry - Messenger{{cite AV media notes |date=2003 |title=A fully-dramatized recording of William Shakespeare's All's Well That End's Well|work=The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare |location=Auburn, California |publisher=The Audio Partners Publishing Corporation |at=Cast}}

== Antony and Cleopatra ==

''[[As You Like It]]''

''[[The Comedy of Errors]]''

''[[Coriolanus]]''

''[[Cymbeline]]''

  • Jack Shepherd – Cymbeline
  • Sophie Thompson – Imogen
  • Ben Porter – Posthumus
  • Stephen Moore - Belarius
  • Ron Cook – Iachimo
  • Stephen Mangan – Cloten
  • Suzanne Bertish – The Queen
  • Ian Hughes - Arviragus
  • Will Keen - Guiderius
  • James Greene - Pisanio
  • Charlie Woods - Philario
  • Max Bonamy - Soothsayer
  • Rupert Mason - Senator
  • Annabel Capper - Lady
  • James Reynard - Messenger
  • Julius Barnett - Jailer{{cite AV media notes |date=2003 |title=A fully-dramatized recording of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline |work=The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare |location=Auburn, California |publisher=The Audio Partners Publishing Corporation |at=Cast}}

''[[Hamlet]]''

''[[Henry IV, Part 1|Henry IV, Part I]]''

''[[Henry IV, Part 2|Henry IV, Part II]]''

''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''

''[[Henry VI, Part 1|Henry VI, Part I]]''

''[[Henry VI, Part 2|Henry VI, Part II]]''

''[[Henry VI, Part 3|Henry VI, Part III]]''

''[[Henry VIII (play)|Henry VIII]]''

''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]''

''[[King John (play)|King John]]''

''[[King Lear]]''

''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]''

''[[Macbeth]]''

''[[Measure for Measure]]''

''[[The Merchant of Venice]]''

''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]''

''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''

''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''

''[[Othello]]''

''[[Pericles, Prince of Tyre]]''

''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]''

''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''

''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''

''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''

''[[The Tempest]]''

''[[Timon of Athens]]''

''[[Titus Andronicus]]''

''[[Troilus and Cressida]]''

''[[Twelfth Night]]''

''[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona]]''

''[[The Two Noble Kinsmen]]''

== The Winter's Tale ==

See also

References

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External links

  • [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/2003/07/20/measure-for-measure-quite-an-earful/4d61e9c1-3f60-477a-a7fe-973716f4c1b7/ Measure for Measure, Quite an Earful]
  • [https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-08-04-0308010474-story.html CD PROJECT BRINGS OUT THE POETRY IN SHAKESPEARE PLAYS]
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jul/14/bbc-worldwide-audiobook-business BBC Audiobooks sold]
  • [https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Shakespeare-for-the-ears-Expansive-collection-2595498.php Shakespeare for the ears / Expansive collection brings all his plays together on CD]
  • [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20030407/35927-to-buy-or-not-to-buy.html To Buy or Not to Buy?]
  • [https://www.audiopub.org/winners/2004-audies 2004 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821025106/https://www.audiopub.org/winners/2004-audies |date=2022-08-21 }}
  • [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-03-ca-gritten3-story.html To the last syllable]

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