Wilde, O.: The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) / Gielgud, John: Selected Poetry Readings (Unabridged)

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The Importance of Being Earnest (more info)
Oscar Wilde,
John Gielgud, reader / Cast
Ronald Ward, reader
David Horne, reader
Roger Delgado, reader
John Turnbull, reader
Edith Evans, reader
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, reader
Angela Baddeley, reader
Betty Hardy, reader
Recording date: 1952


1. Introduction - 0:27
2. Act I: Algernon: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? - 1:49
3. Act I: Algernon: How are you, my dear Ernest? - 8:29
4. Act I: Lady Bracknell: Good afternoon, dear Algernon - 3:34
5. Act I: Jack: Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax - 3:33
6. Act I: Lady Bracknell: Mr Worthing! - 6:55
7. Act I: Algernon: Didn't it go off all right, old boy? - 2:14
8. Act I: Lane: Miss Fairfax - 1:21
9. Act I: Algernon: A glass of sherry, Lane - 0:25
10. Act II: Miss Prism: Cecily, Cecily! - 2:51
11. Act II: Chasuble: And how are we this morning? - 1:22
12. Act II: Cecily: What is it Merriman? - 0:45
13. Act II: Cecily: He does! - 3:56
14. Act II: Miss Prism: Mr. Worthing! And in black! - 3:33
15. Act II: Cecily: Uncle Jack! I am pleased to see you back - 0:50
16. Act II: Jack: Good heavens! Algy - 1:31
17. Act II: Merriman: I have put Mr Worthing's things in the room next to yours, Sir - 1:13
18. Act II: Algernon: I must see her before I go... - 7:08
19. Act II: Cecily: Pray let me introduce myself to you - 6:46
20. Act II: Gwendolen: Ernest! My own Ernest! - 0:32
21. Act II: Cecily: Here is Ernest - 6:18

Go lovely Rose (more info)
Edmund Waller,
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


1. Go lovely Rose - 0:59


Since First I Saw Your Face (more info)
Composed by: Anonymous
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


2. Since First I Saw Your Face - 1:00


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (more info)
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


3. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day - 0:57


The Importance of Being Earnest (more info)
Oscar Wilde,
John Gielgud, reader / Cast
Ronald Ward, reader
David Horne, reader
Roger Delgado, reader
John Turnbull, reader
Edith Evans, reader
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, reader
Angela Baddeley, reader
Betty Hardy, reader
Recording date: 1952


4. Act III: Gwendolen: The fact that they did not follow us at once... - 0:34
5. Act III: Gwendolen: This dignified silence seems to produce an unpleasant effect - 1:50
6. Act III: Merriman: Lady Bracknell - 9:55
7. Act III: Chasuble: Everything is quite ready for the christenings - 1:43
8. Act III: Miss Prism: I was told you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon - 2:22
9. Act III: Jack: Is this the hand-bag, Miss Prism? - 5:02


The Triumph (more info)
John Gielgud, reader / Cast
Ben Jonson,


10. The Triumph - 1:33


That time of year thou mayest in me behold (more info)
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


11. That time of year thou mayest in me behold - 1:03


Death Be Not Proud (more info)
John Gielgud, reader / Cast
John Donne,


12. Death Be Not Proud - 1:00


We'll go no more a-roving (more info)
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


13. We'll go no more a-roving - 0:28


Young and Old (more info)
Charles Kingsley,
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


14. Young and Old - 0:44


A Birthday (more info)
Christina Rossetti,
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


15. A Birthday - 0:44


Summer Dawn (more info)
William Morris,
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


16. Summer Dawn - 0:57


Break, Break, Break (more info)
Alfred Tennyson,
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


17. Break, Break, Break - 0:58


Richard II: This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle (more info)
John Gielgud, reader / Cast


18. Richard II: This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle - 3:13

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