{"id":14508,"date":"2012-02-24T04:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14508"},"modified":"2012-02-25T02:16:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T02:16:45","slug":"the-orson-welles-shakespeare-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/24\/the-orson-welles-shakespeare-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orson Welles Shakespeare Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Orson-Welles-on-the-radio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14509\" title=\"Orson Welles on the radio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Orson-Welles-on-the-radio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audio of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orson_Welles\">Orson Welles<\/a> performing Shakespeare on the radio between 1936 and 1946 has surfaced online.<\/p>\n<p>Before he went on to make <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizen_Kane\">Citizen Kane<\/a> (1941), Welles made a name for himself on radio with various broadcasts, including his infamous version of War of the Worlds in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>Now thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\">Internet Archive<\/a>, have a listen to or download Welles perform in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Richard II and King Lear.<\/p>\n<p>You can download them as MP3 files by clicking on the links below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hamlet<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/360919_Hamlet_Part_1.MP3\">Part 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/361114_Hamlet_Part_2.MP3\">Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/370830_Twelfth_Night.mp3\">Twelfth Night<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/380300_The_Tragedy_of_Julius_Caesar.mp3\">Julius Caesar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/380600_Twelfth_Night.mp3\">Twelfth Night 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/380700_Julius_Caesar.mp3\">Julius Caesar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/400400_Macbeth.mp3\">Macbeth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/440405_Soliloquy_from_Hamlet.mp3\">Hamlet<\/a> (Soliloquy)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection\/460913_Scenes_from_King_Lear.mp3\">King Lear<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also listen to his 1 hour version of Dracula by <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/yOg0a7\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orson_Welles\">Orson Welles at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurytheatre.info\/\">The Mercury Theater<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio of Orson Welles performing Shakespeare on the radio between 1936 and 1946.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[65,1236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}