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.

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Maurice Evans in Shakespeare's Hamlet


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Vintage
Catalogue NumberSet 340: 11135-D / 11136-D
Matrix Number XCO 23743
Record Label Columbia
Record Format78 RPM - 12"
Shelf Number50
Number of Tracks4
Date RecordedN/A
Album Artists
Notes N/A

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Hamlet: Act I Scene II: O That This Too Too Solid Flesh
Composer(s) : William Shakespeare
2 - Hamlet: Act II Scene II: O What a Rogue and Peasant Slave
Composer(s) : William Shakespeare
3 - Hamlet- To Be, or Not to Be (Act III Scene I)
Composer(s) : William Shakespeare
4 - Hamlet: Act IV Scene IV: How All Occassions
Composer(s) : William Shakespeare