Shakespeare Classics

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.

Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's greatest and most performed plays. With this new guide, you will have an even better understanding of the story. Included in this guide: a biography of author William Shakespeare, a look at the play's context, its literary elements, detailed scene summaries, character analysis, and much more. This is the definitive guide to Julius Caesar, concise, easy to understand, and guaranteed to add to your enjoyment of this classic play.

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。

読み聞かせでもなく、サウンドドラマでもない。オーディオブックならではの圧倒的な表現力と、必要最小限の演出。誰もが知っている"はず"のシェイクスピア作品をダイジェストにして続々お届けします。
昔、シャイロックなるユダヤの民がヴェニスに住んでおった。金貸しであり、キリスト者の商人たちに利子を付けて金を貸し付け、巨万の富を築いていた。シャイロックの取り立ては情け容赦がなかったため、良識人といった輩からはひどく嫌われ、なかでもとりわけ目立ったのがアントーニオというヴェニスの若い商人であった。同じくシャイロックもアントーニオがいつも手持ちのない人々に金を貸していただけでなく、借金の利子をまったく取らなかったため、金を儲けたいこのユダヤの民と、金を惜しまない商人のアントーニオは、互いにいがみ合っていた。
ある日、友人バッサーニオがアントーニオを訪ね、ねんごろな女と結婚して大金を手に入れ、財産を立て直したいという話をする。ところが自分には、その裕福な娘にふさわしい格好を纏うだけの金がないとして、男はアントーニオに、これまでたいへん世話にはなったが、重ねて3...

読み聞かせでもなく、サウンドドラマでもない。オーディオブックならではの圧倒的な表現力と、必要最小限の演出。誰もが知っている"はず"のシェイクスピア作品をダイジェストにして続々お届けします。さてはて。妖精だの悪ふざけだの。信じられぬ、ありそうにもない、などと決め付け、つむじをお曲げになるな。 こう考えればよろしい。すなわち、まどろみ夢を見ただけ。かような不思議はどれも皆、眠るまに映った幻に過ぎぬと。私めの語りに耳傾け下さる皆々様もまた、お気を悪くされませぬよう。今は昔、これ皆全て、楽しくも他愛のない、夏至の夜の夢。※本商品はラム姉弟『シェイクスピア物語』をもとに、シェイクスピアの原典にある台詞を加え、再編集しています。・Charles and Mary Lamb's TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM edited by Yu Okubo translated by Yuka Akune

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

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

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites Shakespeare's "Sonnet 7".

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites William Shakespeare's Sonnet 1.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites William Shakespeare's Sonnet 48.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites William Shakespeare's Sonnet 50.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites Shakespeare’s Sonnet 80, where he refers to a mystery rival poet.

It's the most wonderful time of the year! The happiest season of them all. This volume offers selected sorties dedicated to Christmas and winder seasons from some of the best storytellers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Shakespeare, L. Frank Baum, Anton Chekhov. There'll be tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. And hearts will be glowing. The collection opens with 'The Heavenly Christmas Tree' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, followed by 'At Christmas Time' from Anton Chekhov. In the second part we have 'A Kidnapped Santa Claus' by L. Frank Baum, followed by The Winter's Tale from William Shakespeare.

July - the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and summer is a rich harvest of colours and sights. Poets of the calibre of Shakespeare, Keats, Pope, Whitman, and Tennyson describe and marshall their thoughts for our delight.

Recorded shortly before his death in 1958, Academy Award winning actor Robert Donat reads more of his favourite poetry, including works by A. E. Housman, John Keats, William Shakespeare, and Rupert Brooke.

Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy with a relatively small cast by Shakespeare's standards. It is possibly one of Shakespeare's first plays, and some regard it as a relatively immature work written between 1587 and 1593. It may even be Shakespeare's first play. This production is abridged in plain English, producing a condensed version of the play without the complexity of Shakespeare's sometimes obtuse language. Though a comedy, the play focuses on the themes of love and friendship and the conflict between them.

題名の『十二夜』とは、クリスマスから十二日目(つまり1月6日の夜のことで、イエス生誕に際して当方の三博士が訪ねてきた日とされている。西洋では、新年祝いの締めとなる盛大な宴が催され、この劇はその余興で初演されたと古くは考えられていたようだ。 ただ、単ににぎやかなだけでなく、十二夜には、寂しい冬を前にした最後の華やかさ、というイメージもある。

Justice, mortality, mercy in Vienna, dichotomy between corruption and purity. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Mercy and virtue prevail, as the play does not end tragically, with virtues such as compassion and forgiveness being exercised at the end of the production. This edition of Measure for Measure is an adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous drama, narrated in plain modern English, capturing the very essence and key elements of the original Shakespeare work.

Bassanio, a young Venetian of noble rank, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia of Belmont. Having squandered his estate, he needs 3,000 ducats to subsidise his expenditures as a suitor. Bassanio approaches his friend Antonio, a wealthy merchant of Venice who has previously and repeatedly bailed him out. This edition of The Merchant of Venice is an adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous drama, narrated in plain modern English, capturing the very essence and key elements of the original Shakespeare work.