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How to Read and Understand Shakespeare
- By: Marc C. Conner, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Marc C. Conner
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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These guiding principles allow you to follow the narratives of the plays as they unfold, with a clear understanding of how the plays function and fit together....
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfection
- By Thanatosophist on 29-04-2018
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William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
- By: Peter Saccio, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Peter Saccio
- Length: 18 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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These 36 lectures introduce you to Shakespeare's major plays and explain the achievement that makes him the leading playwright in Western civilization....
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Othello
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Don Warrington, David Threlfall, Anne-Marie Duff, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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This great tragedy confronts the mystery at the heart of evil and contains some of Shakespeare's most magnificent dramatic verse....
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The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne, Christopher Cazenove, Vanessa Redgrave, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
For sustained dramatic intrigue and sophistication of plot, William Shakespeare's sonnets are at least the equal of his greatest plays....
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How to Read and Understand Shakespeare
- By: Marc C. Conner, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Marc C. Conner
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
These guiding principles allow you to follow the narratives of the plays as they unfold, with a clear understanding of how the plays function and fit together....
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfection
- By Thanatosophist on 29-04-2018
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William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
- By: Peter Saccio, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Peter Saccio
- Length: 18 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
These 36 lectures introduce you to Shakespeare's major plays and explain the achievement that makes him the leading playwright in Western civilization....
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Othello
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Don Warrington, David Threlfall, Anne-Marie Duff, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
This great tragedy confronts the mystery at the heart of evil and contains some of Shakespeare's most magnificent dramatic verse....
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The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne, Christopher Cazenove, Vanessa Redgrave, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
For sustained dramatic intrigue and sophistication of plot, William Shakespeare's sonnets are at least the equal of his greatest plays....
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The Tempest
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Sir Ian McKellen, Emilia Fox, Scott Handy, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shakespeare and McKellen - a Perfect Combination
- By Roderic on 12-08-2019
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Hamlet
- Shakespeare Appreciated (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)
- By: William Shakespeare, Simon Potter, Phil Viner, and others
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Stephen Elder, Paul Clayton
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Experience Hamlet as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen, Prunella Scales, Frank Duncan, and others
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5
In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, lovers lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and, yes, love....
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Richard III
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Troughton, Saskia Wickham, Margaret Robertson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Brilliantly manipulative and entirely amoral, the hero-villain Richard is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles....
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The Merchant of Venice
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Trevor Peacock, Bill Nighy, Haydn Gwynne, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
In Shakespeare's most controversial play, the opposing values of justice and mercy must be resolved....
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Richard II
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Rupert Graves, Julian Glover, John Wood
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Shakespeare's finest verse play is also his first portrait of the psychology of power....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent !
- By Anonymous User on 09-04-2019
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Titus Andronicus
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Troughton, Harriet Walter, Paterson Joseph, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The noble Titus returns victorious to Rome bringing Tamora, Queen of the Goths as his captive....
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The Tempest
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle, Adrian Lester, Bob Peck, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
This haunting drama of vengeance and forgiveness crowns the group of tragicomic romances that Shakespeare composed at the end of his career....
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Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Romeo and Juliet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing voice acting!
- By Amazon Customer on 25-05-2019
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William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken
- Star Wars Part the Seventh
- By: Ian Doescher
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy, Daniel Davis, Jonathan Davis, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Experience The Force Awakens as a Shakespeare play, complete with Elizabethan verse, Shakespearian monologues, and theatrical stage directions....
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Othello (Dramatized)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ewan McGregor, Kelly Reilly
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Shakespeare's Othello is one of his finest and most famous tragedies....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect actor, however abridged.
- By Stephen Martin on 07-08-2018
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Much Ado about Nothing
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Saskia Reeves, Samuel West, Paul Jesson, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Young Claudio has fallen for the lovely heiress Hero, who also loves him. Their path to the altar looks smooth, until the evil Don John intervenes....
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BBC Radio Shakespeare
- Much Ado About Nothing (Dramatized)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Tennant, Samantha Spiro, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Pride, justice, and vengeance. Aristocracy and democracy vie for ultimate power over Rome, and each faction violently erupts when Coriolanus takes the political stage....
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Macbeth
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In this great tragedy, Macbeth's ambition to fulfill the three witches' prophecy that he will become King of Scotland spurs him and his wife to assassinate King Duncan....
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Children’s Shakespeare Collection Vol.2: The Tragedies
- By: Collins Big Cat
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Nine of the bard’s most tragic plays, from Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet, abridged and novelised for young listeners. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move....
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Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Original Recording
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, Macbeth to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition....
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Macbeth
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Joanne Whalley, Josh Cooke, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great rendition of the Shakespeare classic.
- By Anonymous User on 23-07-2018
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BBC Radio Shakespeare
- Hamlet (Dramatized)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham, Juliet Stevenson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....
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Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Romances
- The Winter's Tale, Pericles, The Tempest
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Hannah Gordon, Paul Scofield, Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Hannah Gordon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Paul Scofield and a host of celebrated acting talent....
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Romeo and Juliet
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Joseph Fiennes, Maria Miles, Elizabeth Spriggs
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3 out of 5 stars 2
In the world's most celebrated and lyrical love story, the sublime devotion of two young lovers transcends their earthly fate....
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5 out of 5 stars
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High quality radio play
- By Samuel on 17-05-2015
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The Modern Scholar
- Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
- By: Professor Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Professor Harold Bloom
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written....
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Tales from Shakespeare
- By: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb is a retelling of 20 of Shakespeare’s most beloved stories. Within the pages of this book, the 19th-century authors bring to life the Shakespearean plots and characters of another age in an easy-to-understand prose of a newer generation....
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Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Comedies
- The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Paul Daneman, Fenella Fielding, Nigel Hawthorne, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Nigel Hawthorne, Miriam Margolyes, Geraldine McEwan and a host of celebrated acting talent....
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music (Unabridged Selections)
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Where are the female poets?
- By Eleni Rivers on 16-06-2019
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Julius Caesar
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Andrew Buchan, Sean Barrett
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s most compelling Roman plays. The plot against Caesar and the infamous assassination scene make for unforgettable listening....
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King Richard III
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh, Geraldine McEwan, Nicholas Farrell, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very helpful<br />
- By LYNN JENNINGS on 04-03-2019
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The Sonnets
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May," or "remembrance of things past," or "the marriage of true minds"....
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Vinegar Girl
- The Taming of the Shrew Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming yet unsentimental
- By Lyn Bender on 14-07-2018
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Henry IV, Part 1
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover, Julian Glover, Richard Griffiths
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
This play introduces Shakespeare's greatest comedic character, the dissolute knight Sir John Falstaff....
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John Gielgud's Hamlet (Dramatised)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: John Gielgud
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By Mathew Hobbs on 09-07-2017
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Hamlet: The Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Imogen Stubbs, Jane Lapotaire, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a specter from beyond the grave bearing a grim message....