Shakespeare Classics

Celebrated actress Dame Edith Evans selects and reads a collection of Shakespeare's greatest sonnets.

The Tempest has the ingredients of a cracking good story - magic, power, and love - and they kick up a storm. The magician Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, are banished by his jealous brother, Antonio, with the help of Alonso, the king of Naples. Prospero conjures up a tempest than ensures justice is done.

Othello is principally a story of jealousy and its destructive power.

Othello is a courageous general in Venice and - unusually for Shakespeare - a Moor with a black complexion. Although aware that he is a jealous character, and even though he truly loves the fair Desdemona, he is willing to be persuaded by his clever and envious ensign, Iago, that she is being unfaithful to him. It is a true tragedy, which is clearly captured in this telling of the story.

King Lear has three daughters, Goneril, Regan, and the youngest, the good Cordelia. The King asks his daughters how much they love him. and thrives on excessive empty words of flattery from two of them and bristles with anger when plain speaking Cordelia does not wish to participate in such falsity. The King banishes her - and thereafter unfolds the tragedy of his own undoing.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a delightful tale of true love having to struggle against duty and pride. It has three separate interlocking stories set in Athens, a woodland, and the realm of the fairies - all under a moonlit sky. This is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, and this reading unfolds the plot quickly while retaining its charm.

The Merchant of Venice, though featuring its title character heavily, is most memorable for the Jewish merchant Shylock, who insists on a pound of flesh when a debt cannot be repaid in time.

Inevitably, love features as the money borrowed by Antonio, the Merchant of Venice, is for his friend, Bassiano, who wishes to woo the beautiful and talented Portia, who ultimately provides a clever solution and saves Antonio's life.

Wer Shakespeare in heutiger Zeit neu kennen lernen möchte, sollte sich dieses Hörbuch zu Gemüte führen. Ein Mann der Bühne, Martin Flörchinger, hat die 154 Sonette neu übertragen...

William Shakespeare's classic comedy of the merciless Shylock, a Jew despised by Christians who gains power over his nemesis after a bond loan goes awry - with the forfeit of the bond being a pound of flesh.

Rosalind schwärmt für Orlando, Celia vergöttert Rosalind, Silvius wirbt um Phoebe, Phoebe hat sich in die als Mann verkleidete Rosalind verliebt, und Orlando brennt vor Liebe für Rosalind. Sie alle sind geflüchtet in den Wald von Arden, einen Ort der Träume und Geheimnisse, der Verstrickungen und Ängste, der Versteck- und Liebesspiele ...

Hamlet is one of the great classics, if not the greatest, of English drama. Set in Denmark, the play recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother.

Radiospektakl' "Komedija oshibok" po odnoimennoj komedii Uil'jama Shekspira. Sirakuzskij kupec Jegeon byl vynuzhden uehat' po delam v Jepidamn. Ego beremennaja zhena Jemilija cherez shest' mesjacev neozhidanno posledovala za nim i rodila po pribytii dvuh synovej-bliznecov.

Radiospektakl' "Ukroshhenie stroptivoj" - po odnoimennoj p'ese v pjati dejstvijah Uil'jama Shekspira, napisannaja v 1593 ili 1594 godu. Central'nyj sjuzhet "Ukroshhenija stroptivoj" svjazan s istoriej uhazhivanija dvorjanina Petruchcho iz Verony za Katarinoj - uprjamoj i nepokornoj damoj, toj samoj stroptivoj.

Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's best dramatist. His plays have been translated into every major language, and are the most performed ever. His work contains stunningly modern insight, witty jokes and soaring passion; it is an endless source of amazement and inspiration. Romeo and Juliet is perhaps his most famous and beloved; this heartbreaking tale of impossible love has marked every generation since its publication, and it is an essential part of Western culture.

Shakespeare's play adapted by renowned children's author E. Nesbit into an enjoyable and easily accessible short story perfect for students and children.

Leonato, governor of Messina sun that in Sicily, welcomes in his house Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, who had arrived in the city accompanied by a retinue after the victorious conclusion of the war. Prince thanks for the hospitality and is Leonato two friends, two brave officers, young and noble Florentine Claudio and Signior Benedick of Padua.

The action of this, the most famous play of the great English poet and playwright William Shakespeare, takes place in Elsinore, shortly after the death of the King of Denmark. Heartbroken, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, suffers greatly over the death of his beloved father and the sudden remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude. A terrible ghost of his father, in full military dress, tells him a terrible secret: that the king did not die a natural death, but was killed by the hand of his brother Claudius, who became the current king.

シェイクスピアが生涯書き下ろした作品の数は40ほどと言われている。その中で最期に書かれたと言われる作品が本作「テンペスト/嵐」である。 また、シェイクスピアの引退と重ね合わせられるプロスペロの幕引きのセリフにも、観客の拍手を持って作家人生の幕引きを意識して書かれたかの重みとリアリティを感じずにはいられない。

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 14".

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 15".

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 12".