Summary:LibriVox readers present the second collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Containing 15 parts.
<P>William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres - tragedy, comedy, romance, &c - that there is always at least one monologue in each of his plays. Some of these teach a lesson, some simply characterize Shakespeare at his best, some are funny, some sad, but all are very moving. Each monologue will touch everybody differently. Some people will be so moved by a particular monologue that they will want to record it.
and back by popular demand: Shakespeare Monologues, William Shakespeare (collection #2).
How to claim a part, and 'how it all works' here
1) Find the monologue that you want to record. 2) Claim it here by posting below, I will then enter that into the database. 3) Record! 4) Read the rest of this post for more details.
Is there a deadline?
Target completion date of this project: 6/17/07 – but try to send your recordings as soon as you can. If you cannot do your section, for whatever reason, just let me know and it’ll go back to the pool. There’s no shame in this; we’re all volunteers and things happen.
Where do I find the text? Shakespeare's Monologues; this is great site but if you have another place thats great too.
Set your recording software to:
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
DURING recording: Make sure you add this to the beginning and end of your recording: Start of recording (Intro)
"[Title of Monologue] from [Play title, act ##, scene ##]. This is a LibriVox recording. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name]"
End by saying: "End of [Title of Monologue] from [Play title, act ##, scene ##]. This recording is in the public domain.
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Please leave 5 seconds silence at the end of your recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes!
Also, please remember to check this thread frequently for updates!
AFTER recording: Save files as
128 kbps MP3
[monologuetitleinoneword]_[playnameinoneword]_act##_scene##.mp3 (all lower-case). Ex: (dowenotbleed_merchant_3_1.mp3)
ID3 V2 tags
(To find out more about ID3 tags, go to our wiki: http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/WhatIsID3)
Add the following tags to your .mp3 file (how you do this depends on which software you use – if you are unsure about ID3 tags, send me a message). Please mind upper and lower case!
uploader access to David's server http://librivox.earthcallingdavid.com/cgi-bin/uploader/upload.cgi
password for uploads:- v0xateer (the 0 is still a zero)
NB - The uploader doesn't seem to work with Safari or Internet Explorer. It's fine with Firefox; others haven't been tested.
If you have your own server space, post the link here. Please leave the file in this location until the project is catalogued.
If you don't have your own server space, you'll need to transfer the file to one of the free file transfer services available. For a list of options, please check our How To Send Your Recording wiki page.
I'll need the following information from you when you submit a recording:
your name/pseudonym as you want to appear in the LibriVox catalog, and your website URL if you like. These are only necessary if this is your first LibriVox recording.
the file size of your .mp3 file.
Any questions?
Please post below or PM me.
Last edited by Shurtagal on June 18th, 2007, 6:31 pm, edited 7 times in total.
Have you always wanted to act? Well Now you Can!! My Projects
OK can I put my claim in for Bottom's "Sweet Moon I thank thee for thy sunny beams". It's an intercut piece - do you want me to get someone to chip in the other few lines?
I'd put my name forward for about a dozen more but it's only fair that I let other people do so particularly given the popularity of volume 1!
you got it. I'm not sure what to do about that, you could get someone to help or you could just change your voice.
Jestermedia wrote:I'd put my name forward for about a dozen more but it's only fair that I let other people do so particularly given the popularity of volume 1!
Thats very honorable of you. given the popularity I'm sure we will have many more collections.
Have you always wanted to act? Well Now you Can!! My Projects
Actually can I be completely dishonourable and put in a claim for one more? And then I promise I'll shut up - until volume 3 any way.....
Henry V was the first Shakespearean role I ever played and my favourite speech every night was "Upon the King". It contrasts nicely with Bottom so would you mind if I did that as well? Feel free to tell me to put it on the backburner until Volume 3 if you want.
If no one else has nabbed this by tomorrow, I'll MC it.
One thing to bear in mind: If you have slow readers in volume 1, you could swap them around with completed readings in vol 2, so we don't have two running concurrently.
earthcalling wrote:One thing to bear in mind: If you have slow readers in volume 1, you could swap them around with completed readings in vol 2, so we don't have two running concurrently.
Yeah I'll definitely do that.
Last edited by Shurtagal on March 30th, 2007, 9:28 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Have you always wanted to act? Well Now you Can!! My Projects
For this one I will be doing Hamelet's speech to the Players. Hamlet III, II. It will be good practice and rehearsal as I have to memorize it for drama class.
This bit is also intercut by one character - First Player - with two lines,
first player wrote:I warrant your honour.
and
first player wrote:I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us.
. Anyone up for doing those quick recordings for me? Please?
Last edited by Shurtagal on April 1st, 2007, 9:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Have you always wanted to act? Well Now you Can!! My Projects
I don't want to be to greedy, since I contributed to volume 1, but I'd love to do Anne's speech from Richard III, Act 1 Scene 2. And I thought it would be interesting to combine it with her later speech from Act 4 Scene 1, since the two go together really nicely. Texts are here:
