William Shakespeare - Head That Wears a Crown: Speeches for Royal Men By William Shakespeare - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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.' Album Tracks 1. Henry V O for a Muse of Fire 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