The Arkangel Shakespeare recording
The play read by a cast, with Joseph Fiennes as Romeo.
This was written to be heard. A cast performing the text gives you the play the way its first audience got it: by ear.
You take things in by ear, and you want the play itself rather than a version of it.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Shakespeare’s words, performed as a play by a full cast.
Changes: the page into voices. Joseph Fiennes plays Romeo, Maria Miles plays Juliet and Elizabeth Spriggs plays the Nurse.
Whose story is it?
the lovers’, and the Nurse’s more than you would expect, because a good actor makes her impossible to skip.
How much time does it ask?
3 hours 2 minutes, unabridged, according to the audiobook’s Amazon listing. From the Arkangel series, ℗ 2014 Blackstone Audio.
Audible’s listing: Joseph Fiennes as Romeo, Maria Miles as Juliet, Elizabeth Spriggs as the Nurse; “(P)2014 Blackstone Audio.”
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Listen — Audible
Borrow it free: Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Verona: Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet — The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (Decca) · & Juliet — Original Broadway Cast Recording (2022)