Shakespeare / Irving / Barrymore / Laughton Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings CD

Historical recordings of actors from the beginning of the recording era. CD 1: Historical Shakespeare performances by Ainley, John Barrymore, Bourchier, Casson, Forbes-Robertson, John Geilgud (1920s and 1940s). CD 2: A miscellany. Some startling historical performances in a wide range of works from Edith Evans, Charles Laughton, Noel Coward, Sarah Bernhardt, Fred Terry, Laurel and Hardy, Edwin Booth, Bransby Williams, Jean Cocteau, Feodor Chaliapin and others.

1. Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1: 'O Pardon Me Thou Bleeding Piece of 2. Henry IV, Pt. 1, Act 5, Scene 1: 'Hal, If You See Me Down in the 3. MacBeth, Act 2. Scenes 1 ; 2: 'Go Bid Thy Mistress When My Drink 4. Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1: 'Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends...' 5. Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1: 'Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends...' 6. Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2: 'O What a Rogue and Peasant Slave Am I...' 7. Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2: 'Speak the Speech I Pray You As I 8. Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 4: 'How All Occasions Do Infrom Against Me...' 9. Richard II, Act 3, Scene 3: 'O God! O God!...' 10. MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 5: 'They Met in the Day of Success...' 11. Henry VI, Pt. 3, Act 3, Scene 2: 'Ay, Edward Will Use Women 12. Hamlet: 'To Be, or Not to Be...' 13. Hamlet: 'O That This Too, Too Solid Flesh Would Melt...' 14. Henry V: 'Once More Unto the Breach...' 15. Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1: 'Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent...' 16. Henvy VIII, Act 3, Scene 2: 'Cromwell, I Did Not THNK to Shed a 17. Othello, Act 1, Scene 3: 'Most Potent Grave and Reverend Signiors...' 18. Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5: 'O Rose of May, Dear Maid, Kind Sister 19. Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 3: 'Good Night. Get Thee to Bed and 20. The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1: 'The Quality of Mercy Is No 21. Private Lives, Act 1 - Coward 22. Private Lives, Act 2 - Coward 23. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Orczy 24. Trilby - Dumaurier 25. The Charge of the Light Brigade - Tennyson 26. The Bells - 27. The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde 28. The Gettysburg Address - 29. Phedre - Racine 30. Oedipus - Sophocles 31. Cyrano de Bergerac - 32. Reverie - Nadson 33. Erlkoenig - Goethe 34. Faust - Goethe 35. Erlkoenig 36. Faust