Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs The play starts with a street brawl between Montagues and Capulets. The Prince of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later Count Paris talks to Lord Capulet about marrying his daughter but Capulet is wary of the request because Juliet is still only thirteen. Capulet asks Paris to wait another two years and invites him to attend a planned Capulet ball. Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris' courtship. After the brawl Benvolio talks with his cousin Romeo Lord Montague's son about Romeo's recent depression. Benvolio discovers that it stems from unrequited love for a girl named Rosaline one of Lord Capulet's nieces. Persuaded by Benvolio and Mercutio Romeo attends the ball at the Capul more details.....

MacBeth by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here MacBeth by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 2.1 Hours The first act of the play opens amidst thunder and lightning with the Three Witches deciding that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth. In the following scene a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generals Macbeth who is the Thane of Glamis and Banquo have just defeated the allied forces of Norway and Ireland who were led by the rebel Macdonwald. Macbeth the King's kinsman is praised for his bravery and fighting prowess. The scene changes. Macbeth and Banquo enter discussing the weather and their victory ("So foul and fair a day I have not s click here.....

The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 38 Plays fully dramatised recording on Audio CD Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare - William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 98 Audio CDs 101 hours 47 minutes The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare 38 Fully-Dramatized Unabridged Plays on CD Full Cast Production featuring nearly 400 actors almost all past or present members of the Royal Shakespeare Company including Eileen Atkins Joseph Fiennes Sir John Gielgud Ciaran Hinds Alan Howard Jane Lapotaire Amanda Root David Tennant Sophie Thompson Samuel West and Timothy West. Shakespeare for the 21st century. For the first time all of Shakespeare's plays are available on CD in a complete set produced by a single creative team with state-of-the-art technology and an extraordinary cast. Original music and subtle sound effects heighten the drama. Spannin more details.....

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 139 minutes The play features three interlocking plots connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta and set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland under the light of the moon. In the opening scene Hermia refuses to follow her father's Egeus's instructions for her to marry his chosen man Demetrius. In response Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father or else face death. Theseus does not want this young girl to die and offers her another choice lifelong chastity worshipping the goddess Diana as a nun. (The word 'nun' in this sense is an anachronism.) Hermia and her lover Lysander decide to elope by escaping through the f more information.....

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Play on Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 88 minutes Egeon faces execution unless he can pay a fine of a thousand marks. He tells his sad story. In his youth he married and had twin sons. On the same day a poor woman also gave birth to twin boys and he purchased these as slaves to his sons. Soon afterwards the family made a sea voyage and was hit by a tempest. Egeon lashed himself to the main-mast with one son and one slave while his wife was rescued by one boat Egeon by another. Egeon never again saw his wife or the children with her. Recently his son Antipholus of Syracuse now grown and his son’s slave Dromio of Syracuse left Syracuse on a quest to find their brothers. When Antipholus of Syracuse did no more information.....

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 149 minutes Vincentio the Duke of Vienna makes it known that he intends to leave the city on a diplomatic mission. He leaves the government in the hands of a strict judge Angelo. Under the Duke's government the city's harsh laws against fornication have been laxly enforced but Angelo who later reveals himself as a hypocrite is known to be a hard-liner on matters of sexual immorality. Claudio a young nobleman is betrothed to Juliet; having put off their wedding he makes her pregnant before wedlock. For this act of fornication he is punished by Angelo. Although he is willing to marry her he is sentenced to death. Claudio's friend Lucio visits Claudio's sister Isabella a postulant nun and asks her to intercede with Angelo on Claudio's behalf. Isabella obtains an audience with Angelo and pleads to him for mercy. Over the cours extra info.....

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 137 minutes Prior to the first act an Induction frames the play as a "kind of history" played in front of a drunkard named Sly who thinks he is a Lord. The "Shrew" is Katherina Minola the eldest daughter of Baptista Minola a Lord in Padua. Her temper is extremely volatile and no man can control her. She ties her sister to a chair in one scene and in another attacks a music tutor with his own fiddle. Her younger sister Bianca Minola is nubile and much sought after by the nobles. Baptista has sworn not to allow his younger daughter to marry before Katherina is wed. Bianca has several suitors and two of them agree that they will work together to marry off Katherina so that they will be free to compete for Bianca. One suitor Gremio find out more.....

Hamlet by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 3.4 Hours The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark son of the recently deceased King Hamlet. After the death of King Hamlet the King's brother Claudius hastily marries King Hamlet's widow (and Prince Hamlet's mother) Gertrude. In the background is Denmark's long-standing feud with neighbouring Norway and an invasion led by the Norwegian prince Fortinbras is expected. The play opens on a cold night at Elsinore the Danish royal castle. Francisco a sentinel is relieved of his watch by Bernardo another sentinel and exits while Bernardo remains. A third sentinel Marcellus enters with Horatio the best friend of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. The sentinels try to persuade Horatio that they have seen King Hamlet's ghost when it appears again. After hearing from Horatio of the Ghost's appearance Hamlet resolves to s find out more.....

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 137 minutes Bassanio a young Venetian would like to travel to Belmont to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia. He approaches his friend Antonio a merchant for three thousand ducats needed to subsidize his traveling expenditures as a suitor for three months. As all of Antonio's ships and merchandise are busy at sea he promises to cover a bond so Bassanio turns to the moneylender/usurer Shylock and names Antonio as the loan’s guarantor. Shylock who hates Antonio because he had insulted and spat on him for being a Jew a week previously proposes a condition: if Antonio is unabl find out more.....

Othello by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Othello by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 181 minutes The play opens with Roderigo a rich and dissolute gentleman complaining to Iago a high-ranking soldier that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio and Othello a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he lusts for Desdemona and has previously asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago is upset with Othello for promoting a younger man named more details.....

Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 147 minutes Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend and a Roman praetor (Minister). Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group of conspiring senators because of a growing suspicion—implanted by Gaius Cassius—that Caesar intends to turn republican Rome into a monarchy under his own rule. Traditional readings of the play maintain that Cassius and the other conspirators are motivated largely by envy and ambition whereas Brutus is motivated by the demands of honor and patriotism; other commentators such as Isaac Asimov suggest that the text shows Brutus is no less moved by envy and flattery. One of the central strengths of the play is that it resists categorizing its characters as either simple heroes or villains. The early scenes deal mainly with Brutus' arguments with Cassius and his struggle with his own conscience. The growing tide of more information.....