William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminges and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time". |
Birth and Death Data: Born May 6, 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon), Died May 3, 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1894 - 1941
Roles Represented in DAHR: author
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Recordings (Results 76-100 of 198 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-23937 | 10-in. | 5/24/1920 | Hamlet's soliloquy : To be or not to be | E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-23938 | 12-in. | 4/14/1920 | Hamlet's speech to the players | E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-23939 | 12-in. | 4/15/1920 | The seven ages of man : All the world's a stage | E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-23940 | 12-in. | 4/15/1920 | Jacques' speech : I met a fool in the forest | E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-24661 | 12-in. | 10/25/1920 | Good-morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-24662 | 12-in. | 10/25/1920 | What is your will, sir, that you send for me? | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-24663 | 12-in. | 10/26/1920 | Balcony scene | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with orchestra | author | |
Victor | C-24664 | 12-in. | 10/26/1920 | Balcony scene | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with orchestra | author | |
Victor | C-24666 | 12-in. | 10/28/1920 | Antony's oration : Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears | E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-24667 | 12-in. | 10/28/1920 | Antony's oration : If you have tears, prepare to shed them now | E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-24671 | 12-in. | 10/29/1920 | Shylock's speech | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | B-24678 | 10-in. | 11/3/1920 | Love scene in the Forest Arden | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with organ | author | |
Victor | B-24679 | 10-in. | 11/3/1920 | Love scene in the Forest Arden | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with organ | author | |
Victor | B-24680 | 10-in. | 11/3/1920 | Love scene in the Forest Arden | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with organ | author | |
Victor | B-24681 | 10-in. | 11/3/1920 | Love scene in the Forest Arden | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with organ | author | |
Victor | C-24789 | 12-in. | 1/13/1921 | Brutus and Portia | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene | author | |
Victor | C-24940 | 12-in. | 2/15/1921 | Love scene in the forest Arden | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with organ | author | |
Victor | C-24941 | 12-in. | 2/15/1921 | Love scene in the forest Arden | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with organ | author | |
Victor | C-24942 | 12-in. | 2/15/1921 | The Duke and Viola | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with small orchestra | author | |
Victor | C-24943 | 12-in. | 2/15/1921 | Murder scene | Julia Marlowe ; E. H. Sothern | Dramatic scene, with bells | author | |
Victor | B-29288 | 10-in. | 1/15/1924 | I know a bank | Anna Howard ; Laura Littlefield | Female vocal duet, with orchestra | author | |
Victor | CVE-35806 | 12-in. | 7/13/1926 | Lo, here the gentle lark | Marion Talley | Soprano vocal solo, with flute and orchestra | author | |
Victor | BVE-37684 | 10-in. | 2/22/1927 | Who is Sylvia? | Royal Dadmun | Tenor vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | BVE-38203 | 10-in. | 3/3/1927 | Hark! Hark! The lark | Lambert Murphy | Tenor vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Victor | BVE-39879 | 10-in. | 10/7/1927 | I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows | Elsie Baker ; Olive Kline | Vocal duet (soprano and contralto), with orchestra | author |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Shakespeare, William," accessed May 7, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102258.
Shakespeare, William. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved May 7, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102258.
"Shakespeare, William." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 7 May 2024.
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