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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette
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
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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
Price: 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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Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording
by William Shakespeare
Price: 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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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Price: 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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The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
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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 Tempest
by William Shakespeare
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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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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio Cassette ($14.40) | Digital Download
Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's first great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story that has long been one of the author's most popular plays for performer and audience alike....
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD ($15.96) | 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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The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette ($16.16)
The quality of mercy is not strained..." Hear the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best.
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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
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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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Othello
by William Shakespeare
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Speak of one that loved not wisely but too well. This moving tragedy tells the story of Othello...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
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This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text...
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
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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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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
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The third of Shakespeare's great tragedies, King Lear, written in 1605, is a tale of vanity, lust and betrayal.
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Seven Classic Plays
by Various Artists
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($19.95) | 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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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Price: Audio CD ($39.96) | Audio Cassette ($31.96) | Digital Download
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible her life is only hinted at during a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters about her father, Jacob...
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The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio Cassette ($14.40) | Digital Download
One of William Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Merchant of Venice is also his most...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
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Royalty, lovers, fools, fairies, and actors converge in the forest in one enchanted night of beauty, dreams, and romance. A wonderful comedy that convinces us of the magic of darkness and shadows. "Oh, what fools these mortals be!"
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Cymbeline
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette ($14.36)
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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Othello
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD ($15.98) | Audio Cassette
From love and passion, nobility and purity to deception, tragedy and murder, this widely studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespearean canon.
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Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Price: Audio CD ($23.36) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
One 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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The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD ($15.96) | 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
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($16.16)
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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King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Price: 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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