The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

Maurice Evans - Shakespeare Hamlet: Six Excerpts


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Vintage
Catalogue NumberMM-651: 12241-D; 12242-D; 12243-D;
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Columbia Masterworks
Record Format78 RPM - 12" Album
Shelf Number84
Number of Tracks6
Date RecordedN/A
Album Artists
Notes N/A

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1 - O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt
Composer(s) : Shakespeare
2 - Ghost Scene: Whither wilt thou lead me?; Hamlet's soliloquy: O, all you host of heaven (Act 1, Scene 5)
Composer(s) : Shakespeare
3 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Composer(s) : Shakespeare
4 - To be or not to be: That is the question.
Composer(s) : Shakespeare
5 - Hamlet's advice to the players: Speak the speech, I pray you.
Composer(s) : Shakespeare
6 - How all occasions do inform against me.
Composer(s) : Shakespeare