William Shakespeare Audio Downloads

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history.

Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller.

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady.

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623.

Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he himself will become king.

Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!

Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!

King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written.

Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!

Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!