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Be Thou Now Persuaded - Living In A Shakespearean World
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Be Thou Now Persuaded - Living In A Shakespearean World --- 1999
"Remastered in Rhinophonic Authentic Sound" Also included are an 80-page book with essays on Shakespeare's life and times, an overview of Elizabethan theatre, synopses of the featured plays and poems, and complete transcripts of Volumes 1-4. All Original Recordings produced under license from Caedmon/Harper Audio, except certain titles under license from Naxos AudioBooks, HNH International Ltd., or from Sony Music Special Products, a Division of Sony Music, a Group of Sony Music Entertainment Inc.; or courtesy of BMG Music/The RCA Records Label, under license from BMG Special Products; or courtesy of NBC.
Tracklist
Volume 1: To Be...
Greetings
Good Day, Good Day (Troilus And Cressida; Act III, Scene III)
Good Morrow To This Fair Assembly (Much Ado About Nothing; Act V, Scene IV)
Good Morrow, Ajax (Troilus And Cressida; Act III, Scene III)
Good Morrow, Sweet Hal (The First Part Of King Henry IV; Act I, Scene II)
Who's There? (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act I, Scene I)
God Save You Sir John! Welcome, Ancient Pistol (The Second Part Of King Henry IV; Act II, Scene IV)
Good Day And Happiness, Dear Rosalind (As You Like It; Act IV, Scene I)
Signior Romeo Bon Jour (Romeo And Juliet; Act II, Scene IV)
Good Morrow, Uncle Pandarus / Good Morrow, Cousin Cressida (Troilus And Cressida; Act I, Scene II)
Good Morrow, Kate (The Taming Of The Shrew; Act I, Scene II)
Good Morrow, Fair Ones (As You Like It; Act IV, Scene III)
Good Morrow, Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing; Act V, Scene IV)
Good Morrow, Cuz / Good Morrow, Sweet Hero (Much Ado About Nothing; Act III, Scene IV)
Welcome, Dear Rosencrantz And Guildenstern (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act II, Scene II)
Good Morrow, Neighbor Baptista / Good Morrow (The Taming Of The Shrew; Act II, Scene I)
How Does My Good Lord Hamlet? (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act II, Scene II)
Gentlewoman, Good Day! (The Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Act IV, Scene IV)
Good Morrow, Brutus (Julius Caesar; Act II, Scene I)
All Hail, Caesar, Good Morrow, Worthy Caesar (Julius Caesar; Act II, Scene II)
Good Morrow Antony (Julius Caesar; Act II, Scene II)
Good Morrow / Ay, And Good The Next Day Too (Troilus And Cressida; Act III, Scene III)
Our Human Actions
O For A Muse Of Fire (The Life Of King Henry V; Act I, Scene I)
O Brave New World (The Tempest; Act V, Scene I)
What A Piece Of Work Is Man (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act II, Scene II)
All The World's A Stage (As You Like It; Act II, Scene VII)
Life's But A Walking Shadow (Macbeth; Act V, Scene V)
They Kill Us For Their Sport (King Lear; Act IV, Scene I)
Man Proud Man (Measure For Measure; Act II, Scene II)
Some Vicious Mole Of Nature (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act I, Scene IV)
The Web Of Our Life (All's Well That Ends Well; Act IV, Scene III)
The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strained (The Merchant Of Venice; Act IV, Scene I)
To Thine Own Self Be True
Our Remedies Oft In Ourselves Do Lie (All's Well That Ends Well; Act I, Scene I)
Hath Not A Jew Eyes? (The Merchant Of Venice; Act III, Scene I)
I Will A Round Unvarnish'd Tale Deliver (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act I, Scene III)
I Am Not What I Am (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act I, Scene I)
I Edgar Nothing Am (King Lear; Act II, Scene III)
Oh What A Rogue And Peasant Slave Am I (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act II, Scene II)
Herein Will I Imitate The Sun (The First Part Of King Henry IV; Act I, Scene II)
Banish Plump Jack, And Banish All The World (The First Part Of King Henry IV; Act II, Scene IV)
I Have Of Late (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act II, Scene II)
It Is A Melancholy Of Mine Own (As You Like It; Act IV, Scene I)
There Was A Star Danced (Much Ado About Nothing; Act II, Scene I)
He Is All Mirth (Much Ado About Nothing; Act III, Scene II)
I Am That Merry Wanderer Of The Night (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act II, Scene I)
Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I (The Tempest; Act V, Scene I)
A Born Devil (The Tempest; Act IV, Scene I)
A Man Or A Fish? (The Tempest; Act II, Scene II)
For Her Own Person, It Beggar'd All Description (Antony And Cleopatra; Act II, Scene II)
O, How That Name Befits My Composition (The Tragedy Of King Richard II; Act II, Scene I)
Vaulting Ambition, Which O'erleaps Itself
Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess (King Lear; Act I, Scene II)
Can I Do This, And Cannot Get A Crown? (The Third Part Of King Henry VI; Act III, Scene II)
Come, You Spirits (Macbeth; Act I, Scene V)
King And Country
Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Friends (The Life Of King Henry V; Act III, Scene I)
This Other Eden (The Tragedy Of King Richard II; Act II, Scene I)
Mine Honor Is My Life (The Tragedy Of King Richard II; Act I, Scene I)
Honor Is A Mere Scutcheon (The First Part Of King Henry IV; Act V, Scene I)
I Would Give All My Fame For A Pot Of Ale And Safety (The Life Of King Henry V; Act III, Scene II)
Sweet Comedy And Mirthful Comic Shows
I Am Not Only Witty In Myself (The Second Part Of King Henry IV; Act I, Scene II)
I Am A Great Eater Of Beef (Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will; Act I, Scene III)
Here Comes Romeo (Romeo And Juliet; Act II, Scene IV)
Didst Thou Ever See Me Do Such A Trick? (The Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Act IV, Scene IV)
I Can Compare Our Rich Misers (Pericles; Act II, Scene I)
Wherefore, Sweetheart What's Your Metaphor (Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will; Act I, Scene III)
In The Secret Parts Of Fortune? (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act II, Scene II)
Motley's The Only Wear (As You Like It; Act II, Scene VII)
Wast Ever In Court, Shepherd? (As You Like It; Act III, Scene II)
This Fellow Is Wise Enough To Play The Fool (Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will; Act III, Scene I)
Sirrah, You Were Best To Take My Coxcomb (King Lear; Act I, Scene IV)
What Madness Rules In Brainsick Me
It Hath Made Me Mad (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act III, Scene I)
O What A Noble Mind Is Here Overthrown (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act III, Scene I)
Away! The Foul Fiend Follows Me! (King Lear; Act III, Scene IV)
Out, Damn'd Spot! (Macbeth; Act V, Scene I)
O Fool, I Shall Go Mad (King Lear; Act II, Scene IV)
The Lunatic, The Lover And The Poet (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act V, Scene I)
Volume 2: Love's Labors
Beauty's Ensign
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred? (The Merchant Of Venice; Act III, Scene II)
Beauty Itself Doth Of Itself Persuade (The Rape Of Lucrece; Lines 29-30)
God Bless My Ladies! Are They All In Love (Love's Labour's Lost; Act II, Scene I)
O She Doth Teach The Torches To Burn Bright (Romeo And Juliet; Act I, Scene V)
If With His Tongue, He Cannot Win A Woman (The Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Act III, Scene I)
Fair Katherine, And Most Fair (The Life Of King Henry V; Act V, Scene II)
Good Morrow, Kate (The Taming Of The Shrew; Act II, Scene I)
Was Ever Woman In This Humor Woo'd? (The Tragedy Of King Richard III; Act I, Scene II)
She Lov'd Me For The Dangers I Had Passed (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act I, Scene III)
The Honorable Lady Of The House, Which Is She? (Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will; Act I, Scene V)
Love Me! Why, It Must Be Requited (Much Ado About Nothing; Act II, Scene III)
Come Woo Me, Woo Me (As You Like It; Act IV, Scene I)
This Bud Of Love (Romeo And Juliet; Act II, Scene II)
The Very Flame Of Love
Love Is A Spirit All Compact Of Fire (Venus And Adonis; Lines 149-50)
Perdition Catch My Soul, But I Do Love Thee (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act III, Scene III)
Give Me To Drink Mandragora (Antony And Cleopatra; Act I, Scene V)
Come, Night, Come, Romeo (Romeo And Juliet; Act III, Scene II)
O Coz, Coz, Coz (As You Like It; Act IV, Scene I)
I Am Giddy (Troilus And Cressida; Act III, Scene II)
How Now, My Love! (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act I, Scene I)
What Angel Wakes Me From My Flowery Bed? (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act III, Scene I)
Do Not You Love Me? (Much Ado About Nothing; Act V, Scene IV)
How Sweet The Moonlight (The Merchant Of Venice; Act V, Scene I)
Love-Sick Love
I Am Your Spaniel (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act II, Scene I)
My Idolatrous Fancy Must Sanctify His Reliques (All's Well That Ends Well; Act I, Scene I)
O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe! (As You Like It; Act II, Scene IV)
If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On (Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will; Act I, Scene I)
Like Patience On A Monument (Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will; Act II, Scene IV)
Sweet Silent Hours Of Marriage Joys
Now Fair Hippolyta, Our Nuptial Hour (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act I, Scene I)
This Dear Encounter (Romeo And Juliet; Act II, Scene VI)
Does Thou In Conscience Think (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act IV, Scene III)
I Am Not Adriana Nor Thy Wife (The Comedy Of Errors; Act II, Scene II)
Dwell I But In The Suburbs Of Your Good Pleasure? (Julius Caesar; Act II, Scene I)
In My Heart's Core
Like To A Double Cherry (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act III, Scene II)
Give Me That Man That Is Not Passion's Slave (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act III, Scene II)
To You, Antonio (The Merchant Of Venice; Act I, Scene I)
Between The Child And Parent
His Good Report Should Have Been My Son (Coriolanus; Act I, Scene III)
Call You Me Daughter? (The Taming Of The Shrew; Act II, Scene I)
I Am Wild In My Beholding (Pericles; Act V, Scene I)
You Gods, Look Down (The Winter's Tale; Act V, Scene III)
I Think This Lady To Be My Child Cordelia (King Lear; Act IV, Scene VII)
Drown'd With Grief
If By Your Art (The Tempest; Act I, Scene II)
I Know Not Seems (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act I, Scene II)
Grief Fills The Room Up Of My Absent Child (The Life And Death Of King John; Act III, Scene IV)
O, That This Too Too Solid Flesh (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act I, Scene II)
Ah, My Young Princes (The Tragedy Of King Richard III; Act IV, Scene IV)
Volume 3: Hot Blood
Bitter Business
I Say, We Will Have No More Marriages (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act III, Scene I)
All Is Lost; This Foul Egyptian Hath Betrayed Me (Antony And Cleopatra; Act Iv, Scene XII)
Thou Subtle, Perjur'd, False Disloyal Man! (The Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Act IV, Scene II)
The Man That Hath No Music In Himself (The Merchant Of Venice; Act V, Scene I)
Who Will Believe Thee, Isabel? (Measure For Measure; Act II, Scene IV)
To Curse Awhile
I Know How To Curse (The Tempest; Act I, Scene II)
Abhorred Slave (The Tempest; Act I, Scene II)
All The Infections That The Sun Sucks Up (The Tempest; Act II, Scene II)
I Would Thou Didst Itch From Head To Foot (Troilus And Cressida; Act II, Scene I)
How Long Is't Ago, Jack, Thou Sawest Thine Own Knee? (The First Part Of King Henry IV; Act II, Scene IV)
What, My Dear Lady Disdain! Are You Yet Living? (Much Ado About Nothing; Act I, Scene I)
Dizzy-Eyed Fury And Great Rage Of Heart
Good Sister, Wrong Me Not (The Taming Of The Shrew; Act II, Scene I)
A Lunatic Lean-Witted Fool (The Tragedy Of King Richard II; Act II, Scene I)
Stay, Dog, For Thou Shalt Hear Me (The Tragedy Of King Richard III; Act I, Scene III)
What's The Matter, You Dissentious Rogues (Coriolanus; Act I, Scene I)
Signior Antonio... You Have Rated Me (The Merchant Of Venice; Act I, Scene III)
O Goneril! You Are Not Worth The Dust (King Lear; Act IV, Scene II)
Hear, Nature, Hear Dear Goddess, Hear! (King Lear; Act I, Scene IV)
Blow Winds And Crack Your Cheeks (King Lear; Act III, Scene II)
Mad Devil Of Jealousy
I Hate The Moor (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act I, Scene III)
Inch-Thick, Knee-Deep (The Winter's Tale; Act I, Scene II)
I Had Been Happy (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act III, Scene III)
Heady Murder, Spoil And Villainy
Draw Thy Tool! (Romeo And Juliet; Act I, Scene I)
I Am Fortune's Fool (Romeo And Juliet; Act III, Scene I)
Vengeance Is In My Heart (Titus Andronicus; Act II, Scene III)
Out, Vile Jelly! (King Lear; Act III, Scene VII)
I Am Not In The Giving Vein Today (The Tragedy Of King Richard III; Act IV, Scene II)
Is Thy Name Tyrrel? (The Tragedy Of King Richard III; Act IV, Scene II)
What Would You Undertake (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act IV, Scene VII)
Great Glamis! (Macbeth; Act I, Scene V)
If It Were Done When 'Tis Done (Macbeth; act I, Scene VII)
Is This A Dagger I See Before Me (Macbeth; Act II, Scene I)
I Have Been Studying (The Tragedy Of King Richard II; Act V, Scene V)
It Is The Cause (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act V, Scene II)
Now Might I Do It Pat (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act III, Scene III)
Confounding Shame And Guilt
O My Offense Is Rank (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act III, Scene III)
Give Me Another Horse (The Tragedy Of King Richard III; Act V, Scene III)
Give Me Your Pardon, Sir (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act V, Scene II)
I'll Be Wise (The Tempest; Act V, Scene I)
Volume 4: Or Not To Be...
Supernatural Solicitings
Now The Hungry Lion Roars (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act V, Scene I)
When Shall We Three Meet Again (Macbeth; Act I, Scene I)
So Foul And Fair A Day (Macbeth; Act I, Scene III)
Double, Double Toil And Trouble (Macbeth; Act IV, Scene I)
Thou Shall See Me At Philippi (Julius Caesar; Act IV, Scene III)
O My Prophetic Soul! (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act I, Scene V)
Sweet Remembrancer (Macbeth; Act III, Scene IV)
What Dreams May Come
O Sleep, O Gentle Sleep (The Second Part Of King Henry IV; Act III, Scene I)
Sleep No More! (Macbeth; Act II, Scene II)
I Have Not Slept (Julius Caesar; Act II, Scene I)
She Dreamt To-Night (Julius Caesar; Act II, Scene II)
What Was Your Dream? (The Tragedy Of King Richard III; Act I, Scene IV)
When My Cue Comes, Call Me And I Will Answer (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act IV, Scene I)
O, Then, I See Queen Mab Hath Been With You (Romeo And Juliet; Act I, Scene IV)
I Fear, Too Early (Romeo And Juliet; Act I, Scene IV)
We Defy Augury (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act V, Scene II)
Of Graves, Of Worms, Of Epitaphs
I Have Lived Long Enough (Macbeth; Act V, Scene III)
We Have Heard The Chimes At Midnight (The Second Part Of King Henry IV; Act III, Scene II)
It Smells Of Mortality (King Lear; Act IV, Scene VI)
All That Lives Must Die (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act I, Scene II)
How Long Hast Thou Been A Grave-Maker? (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act V, Scene I)
Engrossing Death
Come Away, Come Away, Death (Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will; Act II, Scene IV)
Be Absolute For Death (Measure For Measure; Act III, Scene I)
If I Must Die (Measure For Measure; Act III, Scene I)
Of Comfort No Man Speak (The Tragedy Of King Richard II; Act III, Scene II)
To Be Or Not To Be (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act III, Scene I)
Strange Cases Of Death
Nothing In His Life Became Him Like The Leaving It (Macbeth; Act I, Scene IV)
Lay On Macduff (Macbeth; Act V, Scene VIII)
The Bloody Dog Is Dead (The Tragedy Of King Richard III; Act V, Scene IV)
O Harry Thou Hast Robbed Me Of My Youth (The First Part Of King Henry IV; Act V, Scene IV)
Cut Me To Pieces (Coriolanus; Act V, Scene VI)
I Kill'd Not Thee With Half So Good A Will (Julius Caesar; Act V, Scene V)
And Smote Him, Thus (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act V, Scene II)
Howl, Howl, Howl, Howl! (King Lear; Act V, Scene III)
The Rest Is Silence (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act V, Scene II)
I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying (Antony And Cleopatra; Act IV, Scene XV)
I Have Immortal Longings In Me (Antony And Cleopatra; Act V, Scene II)
Falstaff He Is Dead (The Life Of King Henry V; Act II, Scene III)
Ah, Dear Juliet, Why Are Thou Yet So Fair? (Romeo And Juliet; Act V, Scene III)
O Happy Dagger! This Is Thy Sheath (Romeo And Juliet; Act V, Scene III)
Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun (Cymbeline; Act IV, Scene II)
Epilogue
Our Revels Are Now Ended (The Tempest; Act IV, Scene I)
Farewells
Little Helen Farewell (All's Well That Ends Well; Act I, Scene I)
Farewell Master Farewell Farewell (The Tempest; Act II, Scene II)
And So Farewell Katharina (The Taming Of The Shrew; Act I, Scene I)
Farewell Sweet Play Fellow (A Midsummer-Night's Dream; Act I, Scene I)
Poor Jack Farewell (The First Part Of King Henry IV; Act V, Scene IV)
Farewell, Doll; Farewell, Good Wenches (The Second Part Of King Henry IV; Act II, Scene IV)
Farewell, Old Gaunt (The Tragedy Of King Richard II; Act I, Scene II)
Sweet Valentine, Adieu (The Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Act I, Scene I)
Farewell, My Desdemona (Othello, The Moor Of Venice; Act III, Scene III)
Bid Them Farewell Cordelia (King Lear; Act I, Scene I)
Farewell Kind Charmian, Iras Long Farewell (Antony And Cleopatra; Act V, Scene II)
Adieu; Farewell My Wife, My Mother (Coriolanus; Act IV, Scene I)
Farewell Ophelia (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act I, Scene III)
Sweets To The Sweet Farewell (Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark; Act V, Scene I)
Honest Nurse, Farewell (Romeo And Juliet; Act II, Scene V)
Farewell Brutus (Julius Caesar; Act V, Scene I)
Farewell Cassius (Julius Caesar; Act V, Scene)
A Thousand Times Good Night (Romeo And Juliet; Act II, Scene II)
Disc 5: Romeo And Juliet
Act I, Scene I
Act I, Scene II
Act I, Scene III
Act I, Scene IV
Act I, Scene V
Act II, Scene I
Act II, Scene II
Act II, Scene III
Act II, Scene IV
Act II, Scene V
Act II, Scene VI
Disc 6: Romeo And Juliet
Act III, Scene I
Act III, Scene II
Act III, Scene III
Act III, Scene IV
Act III, Scene V
Act IV, Scene I
Act IV, Scene II
Act IV, Scene III
Act IV, Scene IV
Act IV, Scene V
Act V, Scene I
Act V, Scene II
Act V, Scene III