John Richetti reads a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets (original) (raw)

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Studio 111 Session, University of Pennsylvania, January 25, 2011

Introduction (1:03): MP3
Sonnet 1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase") (0:59): MP3
Sonnet 2 ("When forty winters shall besiege thy brow") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 3 ("Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 6 ("Then let not winter's ragged hand deface") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 10 ("For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 11 ("As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st") (0:58): MP3
Sonnet 12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 14 ("Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 15 ("When I consider every thing that grows") (0:58): MP3
Sonnet 17 ("Who will believe my verse in time to come") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") (0:51): MP3
Sonnet 19 ("Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws") (0:57): MP3
Sonnet 22 ("My glass shall not persuade me I am old") (0:58): MP3
Sonnet 23 ("As an unperfect actor on the stage") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 25 ("Let those who are in favor with their stars") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 27 ("Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 34 ("Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day") (0:57): MP3
Sonnet 35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done") (0:58): MP3
Sonnet 36 ("Let me confess that we two must be twain") (1:00): MP3
Sonnet 39 ("Oh, how thy worth with manners may I sing") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 40 ("Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all") (1:00): MP3
Sonnet 41 ("Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 42 ("That thou hast her, it is not all my grief") (0:58): MP3
Sonnet 46 ("Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war") (0:58): MP3
Sonnet 49 ("Against that time, if ever that time come") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 53 ("What is your substance, whereof are you made") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 54 ("Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 56 ("Sweet love, renew thy force! Be it not said") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 57 ("Being your slave, what should I do but tend") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") (0:57): MP3
Sonnet 64 ("When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea" (1:03): MP3
Sonnet 66 ("Tired with all these, for restful death I cry") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 72 ("Oh, lest the world should task you to recite") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 74 ("But be contented when that fell arrest") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 76 ("Why is my verse so barren of new pride") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 80 ("Oh, how I faint when I of you do write") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 82 ("I grant thou wert not married to my Muse") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 85 ("My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 87 ("Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 88 ("When thou shalt be disposed to set me light") (0:51): MP3
Sonnet 91 ("Some glory in their birth, some in their skill") (0:51): MP3
Sonnet 93 ("So shall I live, supposing thou art true") (0:51): MP3
Sonnet 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 95 ("How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 98 ("From you have I been absent in the spring") (0:57): MP3
Sonnet 99 ("The forward violet thus did I chide") (0:58): MP3
Sonnet 104 ("To me, fair friend, you never can be old") (1:00): MP3
Sonnet 105 ("Let not my love be called idolatry") (0:50): MP3
Sonnet 106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 108 ("What's in the brain that ink may character") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 109 ("Oh, never say that I was false of heart") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 115 ("Those lines that I before have writ do lie") (0:58): MP3
Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") (0:51): MP3
Sonnet 117 ("Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 119 ("What potions have I drunk of siren tears") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 122 ("Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 123 ("No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 127 ("In the old age black was not counted fair") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 128 ("How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st") (0:55): MP3
Sonnet 129 ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame") (0:59): MP3
Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 132 ("Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 133 ("Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 135 ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will") (0:57): MP3
Sonnet 137 ("Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 142 ("Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 144 ("Two loves I have, of comfort and despair") (0:54): MP3
Sonnet 147 ("My love is as a fever, longing still") (0:52): MP3
Sonnet 149 ("Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 152 ("In loving the thou know'st I am forsworn") (0:56): MP3
Sonnet 153 ("Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep") (0:53): MP3
Sonnet 154 ("The little love god lying once asleep") (0:56): MP3

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