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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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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($15.98) | 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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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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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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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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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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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38) | 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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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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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse: Volume II
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38)
Nearly 100 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind available.
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Venus and Adonis & the Rape of Lucrece
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($22.98)
These two great poems date from Shakespeare's early years and are full of passion and invention.
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The Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette
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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Seven Ages
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($12.78) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
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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Great Speeches and Soliloquies
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
Many of Shakespeare's greatest and best-loved speeches are brought together in this superb collection, performed by outstanding artists who bring to vivid life words...
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Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($16.18) | Audio Cassette
In this remarkable anthology of historical recordings are many of the great artists of the past....
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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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A Lover's Gift from Him to Her
by D.H. Lawrence
Available on: Audio Download ($11.98) | Audio CD ($14.98) | Audio Cassette
Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection...
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Shakespeare's Lovers
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
Many of the greatest lovers, and the greatest love scenes in Western literature, are to be found in Shakespeare. The fresh but impassioned Romeo and Juliet, the resilient wit of Petruchio and Kate...
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A Lover's Gift from Her to Him
by Christine Rossetti
Available on: Audio Download ($11.98) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The eloquence of lovers is celebrated in this rich and sensuous collection - the love of women for men. Heloïse, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Katherine Mansfield...
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The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($11.00)
Petruchio arrives in Padua determined to gain his fortune by marrying the volatile Katherina. Their tempestuous meeting and marriage leads to a great love affair.
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Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($16.18) | Audio Cassette
Twelfth Night, nowadays one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most-admired comedies, was not always so regarded: Samuel Pepys saw the play...
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From Shakespeare with Love
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($11.98) | Audio CD ($11.98)
Shakespeare's Sonnets, one of the most remarkable collections of poetry, was first published in 1609, 400 years ago by Mr Thomas Thorpe.
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The Christmas Collection
by Thomas Hardy
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can been seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the "many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas,"...
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Hamlet is one of the great classics, if not the greatest, of English drama.
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