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There are 4 complete audio versions of the sonnets where each sonnet is read one after the other.
These are by Alpha English, FN Network, and LibriVox with 2 versions. These complete versions are at the top of the list below.
 
As well the complete audio versions, each sonnet has at least 2 additional video versions, indicated by D and I where:
D Indicates by David Meadows Australian actor.
I Indicates Insane Artist video performed by Octavia Selena Alexandru.
 
There is often a third version performed by a well known actor, etc.
 
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Full sonnet recordings
Alpha English complete sonnets (with text)
FN Network complete sonnets    HD
LibriVox complete sonnets (female voice intro)    HD
LibriVox complete sonnets (male voice)    HD
 
EXTRACT FN Network John Gielgud, sonnet 1 to 29 (with added text)    HD
 
Separate sonnet video recordings
SonnetFirst line
1IFrom fairest creatures we desire increase, D I      HDD HDI   
      - ALSO Kim Cattrall    HD
      - ALSO blue dot music, David Shaw-Parker    HD    HD2
2II When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, D I      HDD HDI   
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2
3III Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest D I      HDD HDI   
      - ALSO RSC, Leo Wan    HD    HD2
4IV Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend D I      HDD HDI   
      - ALSO Librivox? Vol 1    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO (includes music)    HD
5V Those hours, that with gentle work did frame D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2
6VI Then let not winter's ragged hand deface D I      HDD HDI
7VII Lo! in the orient when the gracious light D I      HDD HDI
8VIII Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2    HD3
9IX Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye D I      HDD HDI
10X For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any, D I      HDD HDI
11XI As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2    HD3
12XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO David Tennant (through phone)
13XIII O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Simon Callow    HD    HD2
14XIV Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2
15XV When I consider every thing that grows D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Fiona Shaw    HD
16XVI But wherefore do not you a mightier way D I      HDD HDI
17VII Who will believe my verse in time to come, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Andrew Cullimore    HD    HD2    HD3
18XVIII Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO British Christian music program (not currently avaialable)    
      - ALSO Michael York    HD
      - ALSO Festival of love, Harriet Walter    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Patrick Stewart 2020 (shot on phone)    HD
      - ALSO Alexis Rosinsky
      - ALSO David Gilmour, Taylor Swift    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Upgrade your mindset (with text)    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Bryan Ferry    HD
      - ALSO Coronation street and Emmerdale    HD
      - ALSO David Gilmour music, presented Emily Bui
      - ALSO ??Choir and orchestra
      - ALSO Peter O'Toole    HD
      - ALSO REVIEW blue dot music, David Shaw-Parker    HD    HD2
      - ALSO REVIEW AMATEUR    HD
19IX Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, D I      HDD HDI
20XX A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Rufus Wainwright (song)    HD    HD2    HD3
21XXI So is it not with me as with that Muse D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO REVIEW (with text)    HD    HD2    HD3
22XXII My glass shall not persuade me I am old, D I      HDD HDI
23XXIII As an unperfect actor on the stage D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Aubrey Rhodes    HD    HD2    HD3
24XXIV Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Aubrey Rhodes    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Hannah Murray
25XXV Let those who are in favour with their stars D I      HDD HDI
26XXVI Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD
27XXVII Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, D I      HDD HDI
28XXVIII How can I then return in happy plight, D I      HDD HDI
29XXIX When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Rufus Wainwright (song) (beautiful)    HD
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Christopher Hamilton (song)    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Al Pacino    HD
      - ALSO Mathew McFadyen (has short scene at beginning)    HD
      - ALSO Ian McKellen    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Festival of love, Paterson Joseph    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO blue dot music. David Shaw-Parker    HD    HD2
30XXX When to the sessions of sweet silent thought D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Branagh    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO ??Alex Jennings (in memoriam)    HD    HD2    HD3
31XXXI Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts, D I      HDD HDI
32XXXIIIf thou survive my well-contented day, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2
33XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen D I      HDD HDI
34XXXIV Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, D I      HDD HDI
35XXXV No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings (with text)    HD    HD2
36XXXVI Let me confess that we two must be twain, D I      HDD HDI
37XXXVII As a decrepit father takes delight D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Nonso Anozie    HD
38XXXVIII How can my Muse want subject to invent, D I      HDD HDI
39XXXIX O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, D I      HDD HDI
40XL Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; D I      HDD HDI
41XLI Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, D I      HDD HDI
42XLII That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, D I      HDD HDI
43XLIII When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO 43?? Shadow House, Damien Foley (song)    HD
      - ALSO Oliver Ford Davies (through phone)    HD
44XLIV If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, D I      HDD HDI
45XLV The other two, slight air and purging fire, D I      HDD HDI
46XLVI Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war D I      HDD HDI
47XLVII Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Brave new world, Anthony Howell    HD
48XLVIII How careful was I, when I took my way, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Brave new world, Isabelle Anderson
49XLIX Against that time, if ever that time come, D I      HDD HDI
50L How heavy do I journey on the way, D I      HDD HDI
51LI Thus can my love excuse the slow offence D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO ?? (with text)    HD
52LII So am I as the rich, whose blessed key D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Sam Alexander    HD
53LIII What is your substance, whereof are you made, D I      HDD HDI
54LIV O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem D I      HDD HDI
55LV Not marble, nor the gilded monuments D I      HDD HDI
56LVI Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said D I      HDD HDI
57LVII Being your slave, what should I do but tend D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Reading Companion (with text added)    HD
58VIII That god forbid that made me first your slave, D I      HDD HDI
59LIX If there be nothing new, but that which is D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings    HD
60LX Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Festival of love, Oliver Ford Davies    HD    HD2    HD3
61LXI Is it thy will thy image should keep open D I      HDD HDI
62LXII Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye D  ;      HDD  ;
63LXIII Against my love shall be, as I am now, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings    HD    HD2
64LXIV When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Festival of love, Victoria Hamilton    HD    HD2    HD3
65LXV Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, D I      HDD HDI
66LXVI Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Sir Alan Bates    HD    HD2
      - ALSO (German, wierd)    HD
67LXVII Ah! wherefore with infection should he live, D I      HDD HDI
68LXVIII Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn, D I      HDD HDI
69LXIX Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view D I      HDD HDI
70LXX That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, D I      HDD HDI
71LXXI No longer mourn for me when I am dead D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO David Tenant (through phone)    HD    HD2
      - ALSO AI (with text)    HD    HD2
72LXXII O, lest the world should task you to recite D I      HDD HDI
73LXXIII That time of year thou mayst in me behold D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO blue dot music, David Shaw-Parker    HD    HD2
74LXXIV But be contented: when that fell arrest D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Dame Sian Phillips (through phone)    HD
75LXXV So are you to my thoughts as food to life, D I      HDD HDI
76LXXVI Why is my verse so barren of new pride, D I      HDD HDI
77LXXVII Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, D I      HDD HDI
78LXXVIII So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse D I      HDD HDI
79LXXIX Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, D I      HDD HDI
80LXXX O, how I faint when I of you do write, D I      HDD HDI
81LXXXI Or I shall live your epitaph to make, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Sir Ian McKellen (shot on phone)    HD    HD2
82LXXXII I grant thou wert not married to my Muse D I      HDD HDI
83LXXXIII I never saw that you did painting need D I      HDD HDI
84LXXXIV Who is it that says most? which can say more D I      HDD HDI
85LXXXV My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, D I      HDD HDI
86LXXXVI Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings    HD
87LXXXVII Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, D I      HDD HDI
88LXXXVIII When thou shalt be disposed to set me light, D I      HDD HDI
89LXXXIX Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings    HD    HD2
90XC Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; D I      HDD HDI
91XCI Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Ruby Dee    HD    HD2    HD3
92XCII But do thy worst to steal thyself away, D I      HDD HDI
93XCIII So shall I live, supposing thou art true, D I      HDD HDI
94XCIV They that have power to hurt and will do none, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO New York Shakespeare, The Sonnet Project (has visual intro)    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Alfred Molina    HD    HD2    HD3
95XCV How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame D I      HDD HDI
96XCVI Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness; D I      HDD HDI
97XCVII How like a winter hath my absence been D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Dame Sian Phillips (through phone)    HD    HD2
98XCVIII From you have I been absent in the spring, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Tom Hiddleson (advert at end)    HD    HD2
99XCIX The forward violet thus did I chide: D I      HDD HDI
100C Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long D I      HDD HDI
101CI O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends D I      HDD HDI
102CII My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; D I      HDD HDI
103CIII Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth, D I      HDD HDI
104CIV To me, fair friend, you never can be old, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO blue dot music, David Shaw-Parker    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Blank Verse Films, Jessica Bell    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Niamh McGrady (through phone)    HD
105CV Let not my love be call'd idolatry, D I      HDD HDI
106CVI When in the chronicle of wasted time D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alex Jennings    HD
107CVII Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul D I      HDD HDI
108CVIII What's in the brain that ink may character D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO REVIEW Delaware Shakespeare, Cassie Alexander (has intro)    HD
109CIX O, never say that I was false of heart, D I      HDD HDI
110CX Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there D I      HDD HDI
111CXI O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, D I      HDD HDI
112CXII Your love and pity doth the impression fill D I      HDD NO
113CXIII Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; D I      HDD HDI
114CXIV Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you, D I      HDD HDI
115CXV Those lines that I before have writ do lie, D I      HDD HDI
116CXVI Let me not to the marriage of true minds D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Festival of love, Juliet Stevenson    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Laura Rollins    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Judi Dench at Palladium    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Sense and Sensibilty (has subtitles)    HD
      - ALSO Patrick Stewart (through phone)    HD    HD2
      - ALSO Live Canon, Mairin O'Hagan    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Tom Hiddleston    HD    HD2
117CXVII Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all D I      HDD HDI
118CXVIIILike as, to make our appetites more keen, D I      HDD HDI
119CXIX What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, D I      HDD HDI
120CXX That you were once unkind befriends me now, D I      HDD HDI
121CXXI 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Hardcore literature    HD    HD2
122CXXII Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO REVIEW Hakon Soreide    HD    HD2
123CXXIII No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: D I      HDD HDI
124CXXIV If my dear love were but the child of state, D I      HDD HDI
125CXXV Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO FEVIEW?? Poetry spoken    HD    HD2    HD3
126CXXVI O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power D I      HDD HDI
127CXXVII In the old age black was not counted fair, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Love in isolataion, Amanda Wright    HD    HD2
128CXXVIII How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO BBC (song) (has intro by Andrew Marr) (quirky)    HD
129CXXIX The expense of spirit in a waste of shame D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Newsnight, Ralph Fiennes    HD
130CXXX My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Alan Rickman    HD
      - ALSO Daniel Radcliffe    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO ;;Duet Alan d Rickman and Daniel Radcliffe
      - ALSO Reading companion (with text added)    HD
      - ALSO blue dot music, David Shaw-Parker    HD    HD2
131CXXXIThou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, D I      HDD HDI
132CXXXII Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, D I      HDD HDI
133CXXXIII Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan D I      HDD HDI
134CXXXIV So, now I have confess'd that he is thine, D I      HDD HDI
135CXXXVWhoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,' D  ;      HDD  ;
      - ALSO Sir Simon Russell Beale (through phone)    HD    HD2
136CXXXVI If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near, D  ;      HDD  ;
      - ALSO Sir Simon Russell Beale    HD
      - ALSO TRVIEW Hakon Sereid    HD    HD2
      - ALSO REVIEW ITchats    HD    HD2    HD3
137CXXXVII Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, D I      HDD HDI
138CXXXVIII When my love swears that she is made of truth D I      HDD HDI
139CXXXIX O, call not me to justify the wrong D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Reading companion (with added text)    HD
140CXL Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press D I      HDD HDI
141CXLI In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, D I      HDD
      - ALSO Reading companion (with added text)    HD HDI
142CXLII Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate, D I      HDD HDI
143CXLIII Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch D I      HDD HDI
144CXLIVTwo loves I have of comfort and despair, D I      HDD HDI
145CXLV Those lips that Love's own hand did make D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO John Hurt
146CXLVI Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, D I      HDD HDI
147CXLVII My love is as a fever, longing still D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Reading companion (with added text)    HD
148CXLVIII O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Judi Dench (Angelic Conversation)    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Christine Williamson (emotional)    HD    HD2    HD3
149CXLIXCanst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not, D I      HDD HDI
150CLO, from what power hast thou this powerful might D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Simon Callow    HD    HD2    HD3
      - ALSO Reading companion (with added text)    HD
      - ALSO Christine Williamson (emotional)    HD
151CLILove is too young to know what conscience is; D I      HDD HDI
152CLIIIn loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn, D I      HDD HDI
      - ALSO Reading companion (with added text)    HD
      - ALSO Natasha Richardson    HD    HD2    HD3
153CLIIICupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:  ;  ;       ;  ;
      - ALSO Fiona Shaw    HD
      - ALSO Simon Callow    HD    HD2    HD3
154CLIVThe little Love-god lying once asleep D I      HDD HDI
 
 
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