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A Collection of Shakespeare Stuff - Tony Maude
A Collection of Shakespeare Stuff - Tony Maude
Tony Maude

A Collection of
Shakespeare Stuff - LIVE

An hours presentation from an album which challenges the perceived notion that Shakespeare is ‘damnably difficult’..... Many people admit they ‘struggle with Shakespeare’ and that he is ‘not for them’...

If this be where you stand, what you have found?
These twelve gems, with music, may change your mind

From the Battlements at Elsinore to the Summer’s Day of Sonnet 18, from the camp fires before Agincourt to Shakespeare’s consolatory words on death: ’Fear no more the heat of the sun’ in Cymbeline... Shakespeare’s poetry and storytelling genius are made wholly accessible.Using traditional and classical instuments with some percussion and natural sounds,Tony’s arrangements are enticingly atmospheric, taking the listener directly into Shakespeare’s world.

Sonnet 18
I do believe you...
Sonnet 109
Agincourt Henry V

Vintage clips

Show Me A Good Time

Written & Performed by Tony Maude at the Odeon, Hanover, Germany, 1990

Answering Dad Back

Written & Performed by Tony Maude at the Odeon, Hanover, Germany, 1990

Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare

Performed by Tony Maude at the Odeon, Hanover, Germany, 1990

Some reviews of Tony's work

Over the years, Tony Maude has captivated audiences wherever he has peformed. Here is a sample of what people have been saying about him.
  1. Irish News
  2. Heide Rohloff. Professor of English - Hannover University
  3. Time Out, London
  4. Daily Telegraph
Time and again, reviewers from Donegal to Dusseldorf will try to explain what it is Tony Maude has that can still a noisy bar, draw crowds in the street or communicate to the present with texts that are centuries old.
Irish News
His music and poetry build their own stage and the audience is as in Shakespeare's time, drawn into the action.
Heide Rohloff. Professor of English - Hannover University
Modern day minstrel Maude makes merry by setting sonnets to music, be it country, trad-folk or blues. Poetry plays a large part in his proceedings, but at the core is his uncanny ability to see inside a mood and act accordingly.
Time Out, London
Tony Maude has an exceptionally sensitive and perceptive approach to Shakespearean songs and Elizabethan lyrics.
Daily Telegraph

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