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1. | | The Mercury Theatre on the Air by Orson Welles Available on: Digital Download | Online AudioThe finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. |
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2. | | King Lear by William Shakespeare Available on: Digital DownloadKing Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. |
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3. | | Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. |
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4. | | Hamlet by William Shakespeare Unabridged Edition Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.18)In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of 5th century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity. |
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5. | | The Crucible by Arthur Miller Available on: Audio CD | Digital DownloadIn the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. |
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6. | | Oedipus the King by Sophocles Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference... |
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7. | | Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Available on: Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio CassetteThe tragic romance of Verona's two too-young star-crossed lovers, loving each other in spite of their parents' spite, told in beautiful imagery and poetry. |
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8. | | Sherlock Holmes The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Available on: Audio CD | Digital DownloadAt the farthest reaches of the British Empire, four men swear an oath to keep a terrible secret, a secret drenched in blood which is the key to immense wealth.... |
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9. | | Othello by William Shakespeare Available on: Audio Cassette ($16.20) | Digital DownloadSpeak of one that loved not wisely but too well. This moving tragedy tells the story of Othello... |
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10. | | A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Unabridged Edition Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadThis classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text... |
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11. | | Hamlet by William Shakespeare Unabridged Edition Available on: Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadHamlet, Shakespeare's best-known and most profound creation, teems with life, death, and rich characterizations. |
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12. | | Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Unabridged Edition Available on: Audio CD ($20.00) | Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadIn Julius Caesar, there are no heroes, only heroic words spoken by men of ambition, arrogance, and jealousy. |
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13. | | The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadJack Worthington has invented a rakish brother, Ernest, who calls Jack away from family duties... |
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14. | | Macbeth by William Shakespeare Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadBy the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar... |
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15. | | King Richard III by William Shakespeare Unabridged Edition Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays... |
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16. | | Voices of Black America by Booker T. Washington Available on: Audio CD ($12.78) | Audio CassetteThis unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes… |
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17. | | Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording by William Shakespeare Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($18.38)This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud's greatest moments. |
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18. | | The Tempest by William Shakespeare Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadIs Shakespeare hinting at the end of his own magnificent career in these and others lines spoken by the great magician, Prospero? |
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19. | | The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Available on: Audio Cassette ($14.40) | Digital DownloadOne of William Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Merchant of Venice is also his most... |
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20. | | Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Available on: Audio CassetteWilly Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. |
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21. | | Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Available on: Audio CD ($23.36) | Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadOne of Shaw's most enduring works, Pygmalion is a perceptive comedy about class relations and perceptions, as played out between a Cockney flower... |
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22. | | Complete Arkangel Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Available on: Audio CD ($480.00)The Complete Shakespeare for the 21st Century. This release is of major importance: for the first time all of Shakespeare's plays are available on CD in a single set. |
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23. | | The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Available on: Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette ($16.16)In this comedy, a rich Paduan gentleman refuses to marry off his younger daughter until a husband is found for her insufferable older sister, Kate. |
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24. | | A Study Guide to William Shakespeare's Macbeth by Mark Breitenberg, Ph.D. Available on: Audio CD | Digital DownloadFollow the tragic rise and fall of Macbeth, whose boundless ambition, fueled by witches' prophesies... |
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25. | | A Midsummer Night's Dream AudioLearn Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($15.99)From the Fairies to Hyppolyta, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. |