Shakespeare Audiobooks in Drama

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare's plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts - between city and country, reason and imagination, love and infatuation.

William Shakespeare (Author), Michael Maloney, Sarah Woodward, Warren Mitchell (Narrator)

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Hamlet

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.

William Shakespeare (Author), Various Readers (Narrator)

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Julius Caesar

"Yonder Cassius has a lean and hungrylook. I do not trust him so." Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD.

William Shakespeare (Author), (null) Cast, A Full Cast, Sir Ralph Richardson (Narrator)

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Much Ado About Nothing

"Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more!" Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD.

William Shakespeare (Author), Rex Harrison (Narrator)

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Macbeth

"Is this a dagger I see before me?" Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD.

William Shakespeare (Author), (null) Cast, A Full Cast, Anthony Quayle (Narrator)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

"How shall we beguile the lazy time,if not with some delight?" An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD.

William Shakespeare (Author), Harold Bloom (Narrator)

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Macbeth

CART meets The Bard in our first radio adaptation. Heed the prophecies of the Weird Sisters and join Lord and Lady Macbeth in this legendary tale of power and lust, a double gold award winner from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Starring David Warner, Jeanette Nolan, Lou Krugman, William Woodson, Bairbre Dowling, Parley Baer, Thomas MacGreevy, Kathleen Freeman, Elliott Reid, Kay Kuter, James Lancaster, Richard Erdman, Sean McClory, Peggy Webber, Ian Whitcomb, John Bliss, Linda Henning, and John Harlan

William Shakespeare (Author), California Artists Radio Theatre, David Warner, Jeanette Nolan (Narrator)

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