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Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Antony and Cleopatra is the tumultuous tragedy and love story played out against a backdrop of war and the vengeance of Octavius Caesar.
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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
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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Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($17.98) | Audio Cassette
Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories, but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady....
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)
Shakespeare's legendary tragedy is revisited in this spirited and entertaining production that ran in London from November 2007 to February 2008. The flawless, talented cast features Ewan McGregor as the conniving Iago, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello (whose performance won him the Olivier Award as best actor) and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona.
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Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
by Harold Bloom
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love.
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Henry V
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($20.68) | Audio Cassette
Henry V, which dates from 1599, is the last in Shakespeare's series of plays based on English history. It is also...
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($28.98) | Audio Cassette
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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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($16.18)
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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Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($20.68)
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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King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette
Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays...
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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($12.78) | Audio Cassette
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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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($19.98) | Audio Cassette
By 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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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($22.98) | Audio Cassette
This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text...
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Seven Classic Plays
by Various Artists
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Here in one volume are seven great plays: Medea, The Tempest, The Imaginary Invalid, Camille, An Enemy of the People, Arms and the Man, and Uncle Vany.
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Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38)
Hedda Gabler, a deceased General’s daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford.
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Voices of Black America
by Booker T. Washington
Available on: Audio Download ($12.78) | Audio CD ($12.78) | Audio Cassette
This 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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Blithe Spirit
by Noel Coward
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium into his house...
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The third of Shakespeare's great tragedies, King Lear, written in 1605, is a tale of vanity, lust and betrayal.
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Aristotle's Poetics
by Aristotle
Available on: Audio Download ($7.50)
Aristotle claimed “poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history.” In this postmodern era it is worthwhile to consider Aristotle’s way of connecting beauty, truth, and goodness.
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The History of Theatre
by David Timson
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Here is a diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre, from the first tragedies and comedies of Ancient Greece to the high-tech mega-musicals of the late 20th century...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream AudioLearn
Available on: Audio Download ($15.99) | Audio CD
From the Fairies to Hyppolyta, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38)
This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans gives her indomitable performance as Lady Bracknell in this classic radio recording from 1951.
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Odyssey of the West I - A Classic Education through the Great Books: Hebrews and Greeks
by Timothy B. Shutt
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The lectures address-in chronological sequence-a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in their own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions.
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The Playboy of the Western World
by J.M. Synge
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38)
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent performances, and it seems unlikely that much of the actual play could have been heard in the uproar.
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Hamlet AudioLearn
Available on: Audio Download ($15.99)
From the symbolism of Yorick’s skull to the mystery of death, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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