Need your Shakespeare fix? Here.

Rehearsals have begun for the QCTheatre’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, but we understand if you’re feeling edgy and wanting a bit of the Bard NOW.

So here you are! For bite-sized Bard, see Sir Patrick Stewart’s ongoing recordings of Shakespeare’s sonnets. So far, he’s done:

1. Sonnet 1
2. Sonnet 2
3. Sonnet 3
4. Sonnet 4
5. Sonnet 5 – skipped (“too hard”)
6. Sonnet 6
7. Sonnet 7
8. Sonnet 8
9. Sonnet 9 – skipped (“I don’t like sonnet 9.”)
10. Sonnet 10
11. Sonnet 11
12. Sonnet 12
13. Sonnet 13
14. Sonnet 14
15. Sonnet 15
16. Sonnet 16
17. Sonnet 17

For a bigger hit, here is the 2011 London stage production of Much Ado with David Tennant and Catherine Tate! It’s an absolute delight, with a twist of 80s.