Dame Judi Dench read sonnet 116 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

You can listen to her here (click on the photo):

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

If you enjoyed the first series, here is a second delivery of solos by great actors. Absolutely fabulous!

Do you want to hear how English was spoken in Shakespeare's time? You can listen to this programme from

BBC Radio 4 to hear a linguist's conclusion:

Leading actors perform key Shakespeare speeches in a set of videos that capture the romance,

tragedy, villainy and magic of his plays:

Click on the picture to see the videos and enjoy these great monologues!