The Essential Shakespeare Live

1

Coriolanus, Act III Scene 3
Laurence Olivier, Harry Andrews, Michael Blakemore, Kenneth Gilbert, Peter Woodthorpe, Paul Hardwick

77 bpm

D Maj

06:08

2

Henry VI Part III, Act I Scene 4: The Wars of the Roses
Donald Sinden, Peggy Ashcroft, John Corvin

76 bpm

G Maj

04:14

3

King Lear, Act IV Scene 6
Paul Scofield, Brian Murray, John Laurie

134 bpm

C# Maj

08:23

4

Hamlet: Hamlet, Act III Scene 1
David Warner

68 bpm

D Maj

02:12

5

Twelfth Night, Act II Scene 5
Donald Sinden, Tony Church, Alton Kumalo, Jeffery Dench

76 bpm

G# Maj

08:26

6

Julius Caesar, Act I Scene 2
Patrick Stewart, John Wood

70 bpm

B min

08:27

7

Antony and Cleopatra, Act II Scene 5 (music by G. Woolfenden)
Janet Suzman, Joseph Charles, Rosemary McHale, Sidney Livingstone, Jeremy Barlow, Gordon Kempler, Charles Fullbrook, Tony McVey, Peter Washtell, Robin Weatherall

122 bpm

D Maj

07:08

8

Richard II, Act IV Scene 1
Richard Pasco, Sebastian Shaw, Ian Richardson, Clement McCallum

101 bpm

C# Maj

10:30

9

Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 2
Ian McKellen, Francesca Annis, Marie Kean

105 bpm

G Maj

11:49

1

Henry V, Act I: Prologue
Emrys James

59 bpm

C# Maj

01:53

2

Henry V, Act I Scene 2
Alan MacKenzie Howard, Oliver Ford Davies, Edwin Richfield

86 bpm

F min

04:11

3

The Comedy of Errors, Act III Scene 2
Roger Rees, Michael A. Williams

88 bpm

C Maj

04:26

4

The Tempest, Act V Scene 1
Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance

87 bpm

C# Maj

04:19

5

King Richard III, Act I Scene 2
Antony Sher, Penny Downie

86 bpm

C# Maj

10:55

6

As You Like It, Act II Scene 7
Joseph O'Conor, Alexander Wilson, Alan Rickman, Hilton McRae, Andrew Yeats

81 bpm

D Maj

11:07

7

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II Scene 1 (music by J. Sams)
Janet Dale, Lindsay Duncan, Christopher Lacey, Victor Slaymark, Steve Pierce, Peter Whittaker, Roderick Teale, Brian Newman, Duncan Hollowood, David Hissey, Peter Chapman, Benjamin Grove, Tim Higgs, Peter Washtell, Tony McVey

175 bpm

D Maj

06:18

8

Titus Andronicus, Act III Scene 2
Brian Cox, Donald Sumpter, Jeremy Gilley

119 bpm

C# Maj

07:27

9

Henry IV Part I, Act V Scene 1 (music by E. Gregson)
Robert Stephens, Michael Maloney, Tony McVey, Bernard Shaw

81 bpm

F min

02:47

10

Henry VI Part III, Act II Scene 5
David Oyelowo

137 bpm

G# Maj

04:48

11

All's Well That Ends Well, Act I Scene 3 (music by P. Englishby)
Judi Dench, Arthur Kohn, Claudie Blakley, Jill Heartfield, Bruce O'Neil

126 bpm

C# Maj

09:02

1

Othello, Act I Scene 3
Ian Holm, Paul Hardwick, Paul Robeson, Mary Ure

106 bpm

G# Maj

09:52

2

Henry IV Part I, Act II Scene 4
Ian Holm, Hugh Emrys Griffith, Clive Swift, Patience Collier

105 bpm

G# Maj

11:51

3

The Winter's Tale, Act V Scene 3 (music by G. Woolfenden)
Barrie Ingham, Elizabeth Spriggs, Richard Pasco, Judi Dench, Nicholas Selby

174 bpm

A Maj

08:19

4

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II Scene 1 (music by R. Peaslee)
Alan MacKenzie Howard, Ben Kingsley, Frances J. de Lautour, John Kane, Tony McVey, Robin Weatherall

80 bpm

F# Maj

07:32

5

Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV Scene 3
Ian William Richardson

111 bpm

C min

03:00

6

The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 1
John Darrell, William Armstrong, David Suchet, David Waller

107 bpm

E min

08:06

7

Measure for Measure, Act III Scene 1
Juliet Stevenson, Oliver Ford Davies, Daniel Massey, John Nolan

70 bpm

C# Maj

06:16

8

Macbeth, Act I Scene 7 (music by G. Burgon)
Jonathan Pryce, Sinéad Moira Cusack, Brian Newman, Duncan Hollowood

149 bpm

A# min

05:25

9

Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV Scene 1
Roger Allam, Susan Fleetwood

90 bpm

F# min

05:11

10

Troilus and Cressida, Act V Scene 1
Ciaran Hinds, Paterson Joseph, Simon Russell Beale

147 bpm

C# Maj

05:21

11

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II Scene 3
Richard Moore

142 bpm

B min

02:30

1

Henry VIII, Act II Scene 4: All is True
Robert Whitelock, Barry Aird, Paul Jesson, Jane Lapotaire, Ian Hogg, Darrell D'Silva, David Hobbs

93 bpm

C Maj

09:05

2

Timon of Athens, Act IV Scene 3
Michael Pennington, Richard McCabe

77 bpm

F Maj

08:25

3

King John, Act III Scene 3
Guy Henry, Trevor Cooper, Alison Fiske

129 bpm

C# Maj

04:06

4

Pericles, Act V Scene 1 (music by S. Davey)
Kananu Kirimi, Ray Fearon, Roger Frost, Tom Beard, Christopher Lacey

88 bpm

D Maj

05:37

5

The Taming of the Shrew, Act II Scene 1
Ian Gelder, Jasper Britton, Alexandra Gilbreath

123 bpm

D Maj

08:05

6

Cymbeline, Act II Scene 2
Emma Fielding, Esther Ruth Elliott, Anton Lesser

77 bpm

C Maj

05:53

7

Antony and Cleopatra, Act III Scene 13
Nick Court, Harriet Walter, Patrick Stewart, Ken Bones, Rob Carroll

68 bpm

C# Maj

08:14

8

King Lear, Act V Scene 3
Ian McKellen, Jonathan Hyde, Ben Meyjes, Julian Harries, Richard Goulding, Ben Addis

77 bpm

C Maj

06:27

9

Henry V, Act V Scene 2
Geoffrey Streatfeild, Alexia Healy, Hannah Barrie

114 bpm

A# min

10:34

10

Hamlet: Hamlet, Act II Scene 2
Oliver Ford Davies, David Tennant, Sam Alexander, Tom Davey

127 bpm

C# Maj

08:07