A Lover's Complaint & the Phoenix and the Turtle: Argo Classics

William Shakespeare

A Lover's Complaint & the Phoenix and the Turtle: Argo Classics
Format
Audio
Publisher
HarperCollins UK
Published
15 June 2021
ISBN
9780008475147

A Lover’s Complaint & the Phoenix and the Turtle: Argo Classics

William Shakespeare

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.

‘In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine, For thou art all, and all things else are thine.’

Two of Shakespeare’s most revered and elegiac poems.

In The Phoenix and the Turtle, the mythical phoenix consumes itself in fire, from the ashes of which another phoenix is born. In Shakespeare’s poem, the phoenix is female and the turtle (that is, a turtledove) is male.

In A Lover’s Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations.

Thurston Dart, Professor of Music at London University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, directed the music for this production.

The full cast includes: Joan Hart and William Squire.

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