Shakespeare Audiobooks | Drama

Dinero, amistad, matrimonio, raza, justicia, venganza, perdón, amor... son temas que aparecen y se entrelazan constantemente en El mercader de Venecia.Se utiliza el dinero para diferenciar las clases sociales, los tipos de personas y las aspiraciones de los personajes, tan dependientes de la frivolidad de la fortuna.El sentimiento de amistad de Bassanio es más que evidente cuando dice: "A ti, Antonio, te lo debo todo, en el dinero y en el amor."El amor en el matrimonio, en la época que Shakespeare escribió su obra -finales del siglo XVI-, se valoraba en forma muy diferente a la actual. El matrimonio podía ser un negocio, o la forma en que una hija descontenta podía escapar del poder de su padre, o el modo en que un padre transmitiría su herencia a un yerno de su agrado... Si os fijáis, veréis claras antítesis entre los personajes: el emocional Bassanio frente al frio y práctico Shylock; el generoso y desinteresado Antonio, frente al vengativo y usurero Shylock.En Sonolibro, y partiendo del respeto debido a Shakespeare, nos hemos permitido adaptar varias de sus obras más conocidas. Nuestra intención ha sido despertar el interés de aquellas personas que, por una razón u otra, todavía no se han acercado a la riqueza inagotable que es su obra.

William Shakespeare (Author), Emilio Villa, Jose Díaz, Niloofer Khan (Narrator)

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Hamlet

Las circunstancias -y también la ambición, la envidia y el asesinato- van a hacer que Hamlet y Ofelia, una pareja de enamorados que, con sus respectivas familias, tenían todo el derecho a ser felices, no lo puedan ser, gestándose el desenlace más dramático imaginable.Hamlet simplemente no puede creer que su madre, sólo dos meses después de la muerte de su padre, se haya casado con su tío Claudio. La obsesión de Hamlet llega hasta tal punto que su pensamiento se vuelve cínico, llevándole a identificar la sexualidad femenina con la corrupción. Y hace a la pobre Ofelia blanco del odio que le ha despertado su madre: "Si tienes que casarte, hazlo con un tonto, porque los listos saben que los convertirás en monstruos (con cuernos)."La idea de la muerte en Hamlet es fundamental: ve en ella la solución a todos sus problemas, y especialmente al problema de la certeza, de cuál es la verdad, tan difícil de resolver en un mundo ambiguo como el nuestro. En Sonolibro, y partiendo del respeto debido a Shakespeare, nos hemos permitido adaptar varias de sus piezas más conocidas. Nuestra intención ha sido despertar el interés de aquellas personas que, por una razón u otra, todavía no se han acercado a la inagotable riqueza que es su obra.

William Shakespeare (Author), Emilio Villa, Jose Díaz, Niloofer Khan (Narrator)

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Romeo y Julieta

Si nos paramos a pensar por un momento, ¿con qué identificamos el nombre "Romeo"? ¡Efectivamente! Se ha convertido en sinónimo de amante o enamorado. En la obra, Romeo experimenta un amor de tal pureza y pasión que cuando cree que el objeto su amor, Julieta, ha muerto...El amor está por encima de cualquier otro valor y los enamorados van a desafiar a la sociedad y sus convenciones, mostrándose dispuestos a romper con sus familias, sus amigos, e incluso con la autoridad.Pero la muerte también puede ser una consecuencia del amor: la gran pasión que éste forja, puede cegar la razón. En defensa de los enamorados, necesariamente tenemos que advertir que la obra está impregnada de la influencia del fatum, la inevitabilidad del destino, a la que nadie, ni siquiera Romeo y Julieta, pueden escapar.En Sonolibro y partiendo del respeto debido a Shakespeare, nos hemos permitido adaptar varias de sus obras más conocidas. Nuestra intención ha sido despertar el interés de aquellas personas que, por una razón u otra, todavía no se han acercado a la riqueza inagotable que es su obra.

William Shakespeare (Author), Emilio Villa, Jose Díaz, Niloofer Khan (Narrator)

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La tempestad

Cuando el rey de Nápoles y sus servidores viajan en un barco, tienen que luchar contra una tempestad de tal magnitud que acaba rompiendo su nave en dos, cayendo todos al mar. Por suerte para ellos, hay una isla muy cerca.Próspero, que vive en la isla desde hace muchos años con su hija Miranda, se queja de la injusticia que tuvo que sufrir cuando su hermano le arrebató el trono de Nápoles. Curiosamente, no le parece injusto tener dos esclavos: uno es Ariel, su espíritu amigo; el otro es Calibán, que ya vivía en la isla cuando Próspero llegó, y que la consideraba suya.Miranda lleva viviendo en la isla desde que era una niña. No ha conocido a otro hombre que a su padre y a Calibán. Precisamente por haber estado aislada del mundo de esa manera, su percepción de los nuevos náufragos es un tanto cándida e ingenua. Pero en el momento que conoce a Fernando, se enamora ciegamente de él.

William Shakespeare (Author), Emilio Villa, Jose Díaz, Marcos Chacón, Niloofer Khan (Narrator)

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New Boy: Othello Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of New Boy by Tracy Chevalier, read by Prentice Onayemi. 'O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back.' Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s' suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practise a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. Watching over the shoulders of four 11-year-olds - Osei, Dee, Ian and his reluctant girlfriend Mimi - Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will leave you reeling.

Tracy Chevalier (Author), Prentice Onayemi (Narrator)

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Richard II

A KING BECOMES A MAN Richard II is dangerously out of touch with his kingdom. He wastes money, raises taxes to support his lavish lifestyle, plays favorites, and cares more about his vanity than the common good. When Henry Bolingbroke-father of the future Henry V-challenges Richard for the throne, it's a fight the king can't win. But in losing his crown he gains far greater things: his humanity and his soul. Shakespeare's luminous, poetic masterpiece is the first of four plays that chronicle the House of Lancaster's rise and the beginning of the Wars of the Roses.

William Shakespeare (Author), A Full Cast, Full Cast (Narrator)

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The Lunatic, the Lover & the Poet

Brian Bedford's hugely successful one-man show is both an actor's celebration of Shakespeare and an act of Shakespearean scholarship. Bedford explores the emotion and psychology behind Shakespeare the man, as well as Shakespeare the playwright. In amusing, enlightening, and persuasive style-and with the use of quotes from several of Shakespeare's sonnets, narrative poems, and plays-Bedford uncovers the tragic, the comic, and the passionate guise of perhaps our greatest and most revered playwright. In this recording, Bedford includes selections from The Tempest, As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Henry VI, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, and Richard II. A CBC Broadcast Centre solo performance featuring Brian Bedford. Recorded in front of a live audience at the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto in March of 1995.

Brian Bedford (Author), Brian Bedford (Narrator)

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Othello by Shakespeare, a summary of the play

Louis VI was a warrior king, but at the end of his reign, his weight had become so great that it had become difficult for him to lead in the field - hence his nickname 'The Fat'. He was a strong and competent ruler, who managed to considerably reinforce his power in the kingdom, and largely contributed to the subsequent centralization of authority in France. Learn about his soar to power, his struggles with the 'robber barons', and his successes in alliances and coalitions.

Andersen, Charles Perrault, Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, William Shakespeare (Author), Katie Haigh (Narrator)

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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy of adultery amid political conflict is now available in audiobook format. Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the Roman Empire. Mark Antony is part of the ruling triumvirate of Rome and at the outset of the play he is living in Egypt engaged in an affair with the beautiful Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra. When the word that his wife has died and that Pompey is raising an army to challenge the authority of the triumvirate, Mark Antony returns to Rome to help manage the situation. "Antony and Cleopatra" is one of Shakespeare's great historical dramas.

William Shakespeare (Author), Group (Narrator)

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Twelfth Night

Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays. A delightfully comic tale of mistaken identities revolves around the physical likeness between Sebastian and his twin sister Viola, each of whom, when separated after a shipwreck, believes the other to be dead. Filled with superb comedy, this entertaining masterpiece remains one of Shakespeare's most popular and performed comedies.

William Shakespeare (Author), Group (Narrator)

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As You Like It

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare. With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture, and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period. The play features one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-quoted lines, "All the world's a stage", and has been adapted many times for radio, film, and musical theatre.

William Shakespeare (Author), Group (Narrator)

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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare's best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics. The play includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid.

William Shakespeare (Author), Group (Narrator)

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