Shakespeare

A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: eight comedies with all star casts including David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Martin Jarvis, Siân Phillips and Miriam Margolyes....

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...

A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: six tragedies with all star casts including Michael Sheen, Juliet Stevenson, Kenneth Cranham, Corin Redgrave, Ken Stott, Geraldine James, Bill Wallis, Siân Phillips and Sophie Dahl.... 

In the world's most celebrated and lyrical love story, the sublime devotion of two young lovers transcends their earthly fate....

Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy....

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...

This shattering drama of isolation and loss is one of the greatest tragedies in world literature....

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....

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....

These 36 lectures introduce you to Shakespeare's major plays and explain the achievement that makes him the leading playwright in Western civilization....

BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....

Henry V which dates from 1599, is the last in Shakespeare's series of plays based on English history....

Seventeen of the bard’s most notable plays, from A Midsummer’s Night Dream to Romeo and Juliet, abridged and novelised for young listeners....

Love and wit conquer all in Shakespeare's sparkling comedy of self-delusion and disguise....

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....

This iconic collection of Shakespeare tales includes 20 of his most prominent works adapted by Edith Nesbit and transformed into modern English....

Shakespeare's Othello is one of his finest and most famous tragedies....

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....

This play introduces Shakespeare's greatest comedic character, the dissolute knight Sir John Falstaff....

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....

Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays....

A Roman history as well as tragedy, Coriolanus is a complex and subtle exploration of the themes of absolution and compromise, both in the political world and in the life of the individual....

Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s most compelling Roman plays. The plot against Caesar and the infamous assassination scene make for unforgettable listening....

Edith Nesbit hopes to entice her young audience to read them in their later years when they can more appreciate the magic and richness of the language....

In Shakespeare's most controversial play, the opposing values of justice and mercy must be resolved....

Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Nigel Hawthorne, Miriam Margolyes, Geraldine McEwan and a host of celebrated acting talent....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold by William Shakespeare and James Anthony, with a foreword by Stephen Fry. Read by Stephen Fry and Paapa Essiedu....