Internationally acclaimed actor and Tony Award winner, Alan Cumming performs Shakespeare's most important and beloved royal speeches, including 'To be or not to be,' 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,' 'Now is the winder of our discontent,' 'O that this too sullied flesh would melt' and more. All the speeches were personally chosen by Cumming. Michael Boyd adds, 'Cumming brings to Shakespeare the lyricism of a genuine singer, the sharp edge of a wicked comic, and the embodied intelligence of a major actor.'
2 King Richard III, Act 1: Richard: Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent
3 Coriolanus: You Common Cry of Curs!
4 Richard II: I Have Been Studying How I May Compare This Prison
5 Hamlet: Hamlet, Act 3: Look Here Upon This Picture
6 King John: Mad World! Mad Kings! Mad Composition!
7 MacBeth: If It Were Done When 'Tis Done
8 Henry IV Part 2: Go Call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick
9 Henry V: Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More
10 Hamlet: Hamlet, Act 3: Hamlet: To Be, or Not to Be, That Is the Question
11 Richard II: What Must the King Do Now?
12 Richard II: Me Thinks I Am a Prophet New Inspired
13 Titus Andronicus: Why, Lords, What Wrongs Are These!
14 Hamlet: Hamlet, Act 1: Hamlet: O That This Too Too Solid Flesh
15 As You Like It: Now, My Co-Mates and Brothers in Exile
16 MacBeth: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
17 Henry V: What's He That Wishes So?
18 King Lear: Hear, Nature, Hear!
19 Hamlet: Hamlet, Act 4: How All Occasions Do Inform
20 Henry VIII: Let Me Speak, Sir
21 Twelfth Night: If Music Be the Food of Love, Play on
22 The Tempest: Now My Charms Are All O'Erthrown
Internationally acclaimed actor and Tony Award winner, Alan Cumming performs Shakespeare's most important and beloved royal speeches, including 'To be or not to be,' 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,' 'Now is the winder of our discontent,' 'O that this too sullied flesh would melt' and more. All the speeches were personally chosen by Cumming. Michael Boyd adds, 'Cumming brings to Shakespeare the lyricism of a genuine singer, the sharp edge of a wicked comic, and the embodied intelligence of a major actor.'
