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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
The third of Shakespeare's great tragedies, King Lear, written in 1605, is a tale of vanity, lust and betrayal.
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD
The 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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Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD
In Julius Caesar, there are no heroes, only heroic words spoken by men of ambition, arrogance, and jealousy.
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
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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The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The quality of mercy is not strained..." Hear the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best.
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Credits: Audio CD
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Seduced by the promises of witches and spurred by his wife, Macbeth lives by the law of ambition alone. Experience this haunting study of power that traces the rise and fall of an ambitious man.
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Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD
The skies over ancient Rome blaze with terrifying portents, and soothsayers warn Julius Caesar, a brilliant politician at the height of his power and popularity, of approaching doom.
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Cassette
Speak of one that loved not wisely but too well. This moving tragedy tells the story of Othello...
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD
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
Credits: Audio CD
This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text...
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Cymbeline
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Cassette
Shakespeare's classic, a tale of disguise, jealousy, and love. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline, is suspected of being unfaithful to her husband Posthumus.
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Seven Classic Plays
by Various Artists
Credits: Digital Download
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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King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Digital Download
Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays...
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Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Cassette
One of William Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Merchant of Venice is also his most...
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Voices of Black America
by Booker T. Washington
Credits: Audio CD
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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Long Day's Journey Into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
Credits: Audio CD
Here on Compact Disc - a full-cast recording starring Robert Ryan, Stacy Keach, and Geraldine Fitzgerald - Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Who's who – and why is not knowing so funny? Join the fun of one of the Bard's earlier plays, a wonderful, festive, witty, and distinctly farcical case of mistaken identity.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This is one of Shakespeare's most poetic and subtle comedies involving the greatly popular, loveable rogue Sir John Falstaff and his adventures with Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.
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