William Shakespeare

Hamlet (version 2)

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Tragedy
Chapter: 5 | Listen: 1

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius’s brother and Prince Hamlet’s father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king’s widow and Prince Hamlet’s mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption. (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Hamlet (version 3)

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Tragedy
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius’s brother and Prince Hamlet’s father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king’s widow and Prince Hamlet’s mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast: Bernardo: Ernst Pattynama Francisco, Cornelius, Gentleman, Danes, Osric: Martin Geeson Horatio: Robert Hoffman Marcellus: Kristingj Claudius, Second Clown: Elizabeth Klett Voltimand: David Lawrence Laertes: Nathanial W.C. Higgins Polonius, Fortinbras, Servant, Danes: Algy Pug Hamlet: Arielle Lipshaw Gertrude: Amy Gramour Ophelia: Miss Avarice Ghost, First Player, Player King: Bob Gonzalez Reynaldo: April Gonzales Rosencrantz: Grace Guildenstern: Chuck Williamson Player Queen: CaprishaPage Prologue, Lucianus: Emily Feuka Captain, Danes, First Priest: Wupperhippo First Sailor, Danes: Ric F Messenger: Anna Simon First Clown, First Ambassador: Alan Mapstone Lord: Aidan Brack Narrator: Cynthia Moyer Audio edited by Arielle Lipshaw [chương_files]

Romeo and Juliet (version 4)

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Tragedy
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Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. (Summary from the Prologue) Cast: Narrator: Laurie Anne Walden Romeo: mb Juliet: Beth Thomas Nurse: Arielle Lipshaw Friar Laurence: Denny Sayers Mercutio: Eden Rea-Hedrick Tybalt: Grace Benvolio: MarcyT Lady Capulet: Elizabeth Klett Capulet: John Trevithick Montague: alanmapstone Paris: Libby Gohn Prince: Algy Pug Additional voices: April Gonzales, Ethan Hardman, J.J. Wazman, James Silverstein, Kimberly Krause, Loveday, Lyn Silva, Sally Mc, ToddHW, and Wupperhippo Edited by Kimberly Krause and Esther ben Simonides [chương_files]

Aspects Of Love – An Anthology

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Erotica, Poetry
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Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love – though one of the “poets” represented here is better known, even than as a dramatist, as the philosopher, Plato. His Symposium heads off this set of erotic explorations. In The Symposium’s philosophic play, he depicts a scene of men cosing together over dinner, each describing what he finds in his experience of love. I have followed this pattern in the choice of works for this anthology – in a similar manner, each of these works deals in a radically different way with the discovery of love. Whether philandering or married, heterosexual, lesbian or gay, under cover of friendship or as flagrant delight, from Plato through Donne, Whitman, Shakespeare or Sappho. we will not cease from exploration till we reach at last, as The Symposium does, a vision of the union of love as a discovery of the Divine. Surely there must be something here for everyone. – Summary by Tony Addison [chương_files]

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (version 3)

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Poetry, Sonnets
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably written over a period of several years. (Summary from Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Some Poems of Shakespeare

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Poetry
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A selection of Shakespeare’s poems from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. (Summary by Clarica) [chương_files]

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (version 4)

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Poetry, Sonnets
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 2

Shakespeare’s sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous “young man” and the alluring yet dangerously sexual “dark lady.” (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]

Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 03

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox readers present the third collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. – William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres – tragedy, comedy, romance, &c – that there is always at least one monologue in each of his plays. Some of these teach a lesson, some simply characterize Shakespeare at his best, some are funny, some sad, but all are very moving. Each monologue will touch everybody differently. Some people will be so moved by a particular monologue that they will want to record it. (Summary by Shurtagal). [chương_files]

Passionate Pilgrim

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Poetry, Single Author
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 4

The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare’s First Folio. The first edition survives only in a single fragmentary copy; its date cannot be fixed with certainty since its title page is missing, though many scholars judge it likely to be from 1599, the year the second edition appeared with the attribution to Shakespeare. This version of The Passionate Pilgrim, contains 15 romantic sonnets and short poems. The works contained, while disputed as to authorship, are in this writer’s most humble opinion among the best of the age. (Summary by Caliban and Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 02

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Poetry
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 5

LibriVox readers present the second collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 15 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres – tragedy, comedy, romance, &c – that there is always at least one monologue in each of his plays. Some of these teach a lesson, some simply characterize Shakespeare at his best, some are funny, some sad, but all are very moving. Each monologue will touch everybody differently. Some people will be so moved by a particular monologue that they will want to record it. (Summary by Shurtagal) [chương_files]

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Hamlet (version 2)

Hamlet (version 3)

Romeo and Juliet (version 4)

Aspects Of Love – An Anthology

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (version 3)

Some Poems of Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (version 4)

Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 03

Passionate Pilgrim

Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 02