Experience some of the most thrilling poetry and drama in world literature. This unique collection includes two sonnets and famous scenes from 11 of Shakespeare's plays: Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Henry V, Cymbeline, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Each scene is performed by well-known actors; each is prefaced with an introduction that highlights the main themes of the play, summarizes the plot, and describes the scene you are about to hear.
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Alas! Poor Yorick. I Knew Him Horatio
All Places Yield To Him Ere He Sits Down
And Suddenly; Where Injury Of Chance
Antony %leave Thy Lascivious Wassails
April, Fr. Love's Labour's Lost
Are Not These Woods
Arthur's Bosom
Autolycus Sings
Balcony Scene, Fr. Romeo And Juliet
The Barge She Sat In, Like A Burnish'd Throne
The Belly And The Members
Bleeding Earth
Bless Our Poor Virginity From Underminers And Blowers Up
But I Do Think It Is Their Husbands' Faults
Caliban [on The Island], Fr. The Tempest
Come, How Wouldst Thou Praise Me?
Common Mother, Thou
Could Great Men Thunder
The Course Of Love
Courser And Jennet
The Crickets Sing, And Man's O'er-labour'd Sense
Cupid An Archer
Death
Degree Being Vizarded
The Dirge [for Fidele], Fr. Cymbeline
Dost Thou Forget
Epilogue
Even Or Odd Of All Days In The Year
Even Or Odd Of All Days In The Year
Father
A Father's Fury
The Fear Of Death
Feste's Song (1), Fr. Twelfth Night
Fie, Fie Upon Her
Forsooth, In Love! I, That Have Been Love's Whip
Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman
Get Thee To A Nunnery: Why Wouldst Thou Be A Breeder
Glamis Thou Art, And Cawdor; And Shalt Be
Good Faith, This Same Young Sober-blooded Boy Doth Not
Grant Them Remov'd, And Grant That This Your Noise
Had I But Died An Hour Before This Chance
Had I This Cheek
Had It Pleased Heaven
Hamlet To The Players
Hamlet's Soliloquy [on Death], Fr. Hamlet
Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2
Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2. First Player
Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 4
He Eats Nothing But Doves, Love; And That Breeds Hot
He No More Remembers His Mother Now Than An Eight-year-old
He That Will Give Good Words To Thee Will Flatter
Hear, Nature, Hear! Dear Goddess, Hear!
Hold Up, You Sluts
Hotspur's Description Of A Fop
How Fearful
Hoy-day! What A Sweep Of Vanity Comes This Way
I Am Amaz'd, Methinks, And Lose My Way
I Am Giddy, Expectation Whirls Me Round
I Cannot Tell What You And Other Men
I Did Dislike The Cut Of A Certain Courtier's Beard
I Do Affect The Very Ground, Which Is Base, Where Her Shoe
I Do See The Bottom Of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord!
I Dream'd There Was An Emperor Anthony
I Follow Him To Serve My Turn Upon Him
I Have Liv'd Long Enough: My Way Of Life
I Think Crab My Dog Be The Sourest-natured Dog That Lives
I Would I Had That Corporal Soundness Now
If I Be False, Or Swerve A Hair From Truth
If I Begin The Battery Once Again
If I Do Prove Her Haggard
If It Were Done When 'tis Done, Then 'twere Well
If Thou Wert The Lion, The Fox Would Beguile Thee
Inch-thick, Knee-deep, O'er Head And Ears A Fork'd One
Is There No Way For Men To Be, But Women
Is Whispering Nothing
It Is The Cause, It Is The Cause, My Soul
Jacques And Touchstone [or, In Praise Of Jesters]
King Henry Before The Field Of Saint Crispian
Lay Thy Finger Thus, And Let Thy Soul Be Instructed
Let The Great Gods
List Then. Your Cousin
The Lover's Lament [or, Despair, Or, Dirge For Love]
Lovers And Madmen Have Such Seething Brains
A Man May See How This World Goes With No Eyes
Methough That I Had Broken From The Tower
The Murder, Fr. Macbeth
Music, Fr. Twelfth Night
Nay, You Shall Hear, Master Brook, What I Have Suffered
The Night Has Been Unruly: Where We Lay
No, No, No, No! Come, Let's Away To Prison
No, No, No, No! Come, Let's Away To Prison
No, Not An Oath: If Not The Face Of Men
Now Entertain Conjecture Of A Time
Now Hear Our English King
Now Is The Winter Of Our Discontent
O Blessed Breeding Sun! Draw From The Earth
O Pandarus! I Tell Thee, Pandarus
O Thou Foul Thief! Where Hast Thou Stow'd My Daughter?
O! Beware, My Lord, Of Jealousy
O! Reason Not The Need; Our Basest Beggars
O! That I Thought I Could Be In A Woman
O! What A Rogue And Peasant Slave Am I
O, It Is Monstrous! Monstrous!
Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Friends, Once More
Ophelia's Death
Othello's Last Words
Our Revels Now Are Ended. These Our Actors
Pastoral Lyric [or, The Pages' Song, Or, Song Sung In Arden (2)]
Petrucio Is Coming, In A New Hat And An Old Jerkin
The Phoenix And The Turtle
Poor Naked Wretches, Whereso'er You Are
The Potency Of Love
The Power Of Music
Prayer And Repentance [or, Remorse Of King Claudius], Fr. Hamlet
Put Up Thy Gold: Go On -- Here's Gold
The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strain'd
The Queen, My Lord, Is Dead
The Raven Himself Is Hoarse
Renew, Renew! The Fierce Polydamas
Reputation
Safely In Harbour
Seven Ages Of Man, Fr. As You Like It
Shakespeare's Fairies
She Is The Fairies' Midwife, And She Comes
Soliloquy
Song Of The Holly, Fr. As You Like It
Song, Fr. Measure For Measure
Sonnet: 102
Sonnet: 105
Sonnet: 107
Sonnet: 108
Sonnet: 116
Sonnet: 119
Sonnet: 12
Sonnet: 121
Sonnet: 124
Sonnet: 125
Sonnet: 129
Sonnet: 130
Sonnet: 132
Sonnet: 137
Sonnet: 138
Sonnet: 141
Sonnet: 144
Sonnet: 146
Sonnet: 147
Sonnet: 148
Sonnet: 151
Sonnet: 152
Sonnet: 18
Sonnet: 19
Sonnet: 25
Sonnet: 30
Sonnet: 35
Sonnet: 55
Sonnet: 60
Sonnet: 62
Sonnet: 64
Sonnet: 65
Sonnet: 66
Sonnet: 71
Sonnet: 73
Sonnet: 74
Sonnet: 8
Sonnet: 85
Sonnet: 86
Sonnet: 87
Sonnet: 89
Sonnet: 90
Sonnet: 91
Sonnet: 94
Sonnet: 99
Surges
Swearest Thou, Ungracious Boy?
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
A Terrible Child-bed Hast Thou Had, My Dear
There, My Blessing With Thee
These Late Eclipses In The Sun And Moon Portend No Good
These Three
This Castle Hath A Pleasant Seat
This Double Worship
This Heavy-headed Revel East And West
This Is The Excellent Foppery Of The World
Thou God Of This Great Vast, Rebuke These Surges
Thou Hast Cast Away Thyself, Being Like Thyself
Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess; To Thy Law
Threnos
Thrice The Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
Thy Life Did Manifest Thou Lov'dst Me Not
Time Hath, My Lord, A Wallet At His Back
Upon The King! Let Us Our Lives, Our Souls
The Uses Of Ill Success
Valor
Virtue! A Fig! 'tis In Ourselves That We Are Thus, Or Thus
Was The Hope Drunk
We Have Scotch'd The Snake, Not Kill'd It
We Have Strict Statutes And Most Biting Laws
Well, Say There Is No Kingdom Then For Richard
What I Do Stare, See How The Subject Quakes
What Need I Be So Forward With Him That Calls Not On Me?
'what Three Things Does Drink Especially Provoke?
What To Do
What! Are Men Mad? Hath Nature Given Them Eyes
When A Man's Servant Shall Play The Cur With Him
When That I As And A Little Tiny Boy
Whenas Thine Eye Hath Chose The Dame
Where Should This Music Be? I' The Air, Or The Earth?
Where Think'st Thou He Is Now? Stands He, Or Sits He
Where's The King
Who Gives Anything To Poor Tom?
Why, Thou Wert Better In Thy Grave
The Winter's Tale, Sels.
Winter, Fr. Love's Labour's Lost
Wisdom And Goodness To The Vile Seem Vile
With Fairest Flowers %while Summer Lasts And I Live Here, Fidele
Yon Island Carrions Desperate Of Their Bones
You Common Cry Of Curs! Whose Breath I Hate
Zntony's Eulogy On Caesar
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
All Places Yield To Him Ere He Sits Down
And Suddenly; Where Injury Of Chance
Antony %leave Thy Lascivious Wassails
April, Fr. Love's Labour's Lost
Are Not These Woods
Arthur's Bosom
Autolycus Sings
Balcony Scene, Fr. Romeo And Juliet
The Barge She Sat In, Like A Burnish'd Throne
The Belly And The Members
Bleeding Earth
Bless Our Poor Virginity From Underminers And Blowers Up
But I Do Think It Is Their Husbands' Faults
Caliban [on The Island], Fr. The Tempest
Come, How Wouldst Thou Praise Me?
Common Mother, Thou
Could Great Men Thunder
The Course Of Love
Courser And Jennet
The Crickets Sing, And Man's O'er-labour'd Sense
Cupid An Archer
Death
Degree Being Vizarded
The Dirge [for Fidele], Fr. Cymbeline
Dost Thou Forget
Epilogue
Even Or Odd Of All Days In The Year
Even Or Odd Of All Days In The Year
Father
A Father's Fury
The Fear Of Death
Feste's Song (1), Fr. Twelfth Night
Fie, Fie Upon Her
Forsooth, In Love! I, That Have Been Love's Whip
Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman
Get Thee To A Nunnery: Why Wouldst Thou Be A Breeder
Glamis Thou Art, And Cawdor; And Shalt Be
Good Faith, This Same Young Sober-blooded Boy Doth Not
Grant Them Remov'd, And Grant That This Your Noise
Had I But Died An Hour Before This Chance
Had I This Cheek
Had It Pleased Heaven
Hamlet To The Players
Hamlet's Soliloquy [on Death], Fr. Hamlet
Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2
Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2. First Player
Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 4
He Eats Nothing But Doves, Love; And That Breeds Hot
He No More Remembers His Mother Now Than An Eight-year-old
He That Will Give Good Words To Thee Will Flatter
Hear, Nature, Hear! Dear Goddess, Hear!
Hold Up, You Sluts
Hotspur's Description Of A Fop
How Fearful
Hoy-day! What A Sweep Of Vanity Comes This Way
I Am Amaz'd, Methinks, And Lose My Way
I Am Giddy, Expectation Whirls Me Round
I Cannot Tell What You And Other Men
I Did Dislike The Cut Of A Certain Courtier's Beard
I Do Affect The Very Ground, Which Is Base, Where Her Shoe
I Do See The Bottom Of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord!
I Dream'd There Was An Emperor Anthony
I Follow Him To Serve My Turn Upon Him
I Have Liv'd Long Enough: My Way Of Life
I Think Crab My Dog Be The Sourest-natured Dog That Lives
I Would I Had That Corporal Soundness Now
If I Be False, Or Swerve A Hair From Truth
If I Begin The Battery Once Again
If I Do Prove Her Haggard
If It Were Done When 'tis Done, Then 'twere Well
If Thou Wert The Lion, The Fox Would Beguile Thee
Inch-thick, Knee-deep, O'er Head And Ears A Fork'd One
Is There No Way For Men To Be, But Women
Is Whispering Nothing
It Is The Cause, It Is The Cause, My Soul
Jacques And Touchstone [or, In Praise Of Jesters]
King Henry Before The Field Of Saint Crispian
Lay Thy Finger Thus, And Let Thy Soul Be Instructed
Let The Great Gods
List Then. Your Cousin
The Lover's Lament [or, Despair, Or, Dirge For Love]
Lovers And Madmen Have Such Seething Brains
A Man May See How This World Goes With No Eyes
Methough That I Had Broken From The Tower
The Murder, Fr. Macbeth
Music, Fr. Twelfth Night
Nay, You Shall Hear, Master Brook, What I Have Suffered
The Night Has Been Unruly: Where We Lay
No, No, No, No! Come, Let's Away To Prison
No, No, No, No! Come, Let's Away To Prison
No, Not An Oath: If Not The Face Of Men
Now Entertain Conjecture Of A Time
Now Hear Our English King
Now Is The Winter Of Our Discontent
O Blessed Breeding Sun! Draw From The Earth
O Pandarus! I Tell Thee, Pandarus
O Thou Foul Thief! Where Hast Thou Stow'd My Daughter?
O! Beware, My Lord, Of Jealousy
O! Reason Not The Need; Our Basest Beggars
O! That I Thought I Could Be In A Woman
O! What A Rogue And Peasant Slave Am I
O, It Is Monstrous! Monstrous!
Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Friends, Once More
Ophelia's Death
Othello's Last Words
Our Revels Now Are Ended. These Our Actors
Pastoral Lyric [or, The Pages' Song, Or, Song Sung In Arden (2)]
Petrucio Is Coming, In A New Hat And An Old Jerkin
The Phoenix And The Turtle
Poor Naked Wretches, Whereso'er You Are
The Potency Of Love
The Power Of Music
Prayer And Repentance [or, Remorse Of King Claudius], Fr. Hamlet
Put Up Thy Gold: Go On -- Here's Gold
The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strain'd
The Queen, My Lord, Is Dead
The Raven Himself Is Hoarse
Renew, Renew! The Fierce Polydamas
Reputation
Safely In Harbour
Seven Ages Of Man, Fr. As You Like It
Shakespeare's Fairies
She Is The Fairies' Midwife, And She Comes
Soliloquy
Song Of The Holly, Fr. As You Like It
Song, Fr. Measure For Measure
Sonnet: 102
Sonnet: 105
Sonnet: 107
Sonnet: 108
Sonnet: 116
Sonnet: 119
Sonnet: 12
Sonnet: 121
Sonnet: 124
Sonnet: 125
Sonnet: 129
Sonnet: 130
Sonnet: 132
Sonnet: 137
Sonnet: 138
Sonnet: 141
Sonnet: 144
Sonnet: 146
Sonnet: 147
Sonnet: 148
Sonnet: 151
Sonnet: 152
Sonnet: 18
Sonnet: 19
Sonnet: 25
Sonnet: 30
Sonnet: 35
Sonnet: 55
Sonnet: 60
Sonnet: 62
Sonnet: 64
Sonnet: 65
Sonnet: 66
Sonnet: 71
Sonnet: 73
Sonnet: 74
Sonnet: 8
Sonnet: 85
Sonnet: 86
Sonnet: 87
Sonnet: 89
Sonnet: 90
Sonnet: 91
Sonnet: 94
Sonnet: 99
Surges
Swearest Thou, Ungracious Boy?
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
A Terrible Child-bed Hast Thou Had, My Dear
There, My Blessing With Thee
These Late Eclipses In The Sun And Moon Portend No Good
These Three
This Castle Hath A Pleasant Seat
This Double Worship
This Heavy-headed Revel East And West
This Is The Excellent Foppery Of The World
Thou God Of This Great Vast, Rebuke These Surges
Thou Hast Cast Away Thyself, Being Like Thyself
Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess; To Thy Law
Threnos
Thrice The Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
Thy Life Did Manifest Thou Lov'dst Me Not
Time Hath, My Lord, A Wallet At His Back
Upon The King! Let Us Our Lives, Our Souls
The Uses Of Ill Success
Valor
Virtue! A Fig! 'tis In Ourselves That We Are Thus, Or Thus
Was The Hope Drunk
We Have Scotch'd The Snake, Not Kill'd It
We Have Strict Statutes And Most Biting Laws
Well, Say There Is No Kingdom Then For Richard
What I Do Stare, See How The Subject Quakes
What Need I Be So Forward With Him That Calls Not On Me?
'what Three Things Does Drink Especially Provoke?
What To Do
What! Are Men Mad? Hath Nature Given Them Eyes
When A Man's Servant Shall Play The Cur With Him
When That I As And A Little Tiny Boy
Whenas Thine Eye Hath Chose The Dame
Where Should This Music Be? I' The Air, Or The Earth?
Where Think'st Thou He Is Now? Stands He, Or Sits He
Where's The King
Who Gives Anything To Poor Tom?
Why, Thou Wert Better In Thy Grave
The Winter's Tale, Sels.
Winter, Fr. Love's Labour's Lost
Wisdom And Goodness To The Vile Seem Vile
With Fairest Flowers %while Summer Lasts And I Live Here, Fidele
Yon Island Carrions Desperate Of Their Bones
You Common Cry Of Curs! Whose Breath I Hate
Zntony's Eulogy On Caesar
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote 37 plays. King Lear and Macbeth are widely considered his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the planet.
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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community. William probably went to the King's New School in Stratford, but he had no university education. In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna. She was born on May 26, 1583. Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585. By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright. A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers." Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain's Men (later under James I, called the King's Men). In 1599 the Lord Chamberlain's Men built and occupied the Globe Theater in Southwark near the Thames River. Here many of Shakespeare's plays were performed by the most famous actors of his time, including Richard Burbage, Will Kempe, and Robert Armin. In addition to his 37 plays, Shakespeare had a hand in others, including Sir Thomas More and The Two Noble Kinsmen, and he wrote poems, including Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. His 154 sonnets were published, probably without his authorization, in 1609. In 1611 or 1612 he gave up his lodgings in London and devoted more and more time to retirement in Stratford, though he continued writing such plays as The Tempest and Henry VII until about 1613. He died on April 23 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. No collected edition of his plays was published during his life-time, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, John Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio.
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As a 3rd Year English Student, I highly recommend this collection. While I already own the Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, this book I find offers a unique way of reading Shakespeare. Ted Hughes offers a brilliant introduction in which he relates how Shakespeare can be read on two very unique levels. Plays in their entirety, and the way that this book offers selections, excerpted speeches and soliloquies. Taken out of context, the various collected tid-bits stand on their own and allow the reader to absorb the text and poetry without being constrained by characterization and plot development, a more abstract quality is given to the works and the texts stand by themselves in a distinct way. Worth picking up, cheers.
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I bought this set of two audio CDs on a lark so I could qualify for free shipping on another item. It has turned out to be the most entertaining audio purchase I made last year. I have a 10-minute drive to work, and I listen to it every day while driving. The scenes are so well acted, the narration so illuminating, the music so appropriate, the audio so clear, and the drama so vivid -- it's no less than Shakespeare at his best -- that you simply cannot listen to it just once. I have easily listened to every scene more than 15 times, and I find something new and priceless every time I repeat the cycle. If you don't have access to live productions of Shakespeare's plays and you're like me and find his works somewhat daunting to read, this audio product is the perfect solution. The actors are consummate pros. My only complaint is that the CD insert gives credit to only four actors. I'm quite sure that I heard more than four, one of whom is surely the narrator, Mary Denham. Anyway, all of the performers shine, as does this product.
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More fun than a standard audiobook,
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This is great entertainment in the car. Shakespeare is a nice break from the standard audiobook. If it has been a while since you last saw some of these plays performed, these scenes will bring it all back to you. The introductions are very nice in setting up the scene.
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