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William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included all but two of his plays. The volume was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Jonson presciently hailed Shakespeare in a now-famous quote as "not of an age, but for all time". Life Early life William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover (glove-maker) originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning family. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was baptised on 26 April 1564. His date of birth is unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day. This date, which can be traced to a mistake made by an 18th-century scholar, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. He was the third of eight children, and the eldest surviving son. Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford, a free school chartered in 1553, about a quarter-mile (400 m) from his home. Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but grammar school curricula were largely similar: the basic Latin text was standardised by royal decree, and the school would have provided an intensive education in grammar based upon Latin classical authors.At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway. The consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. The next day, two of Hathaway's neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage. The ceremony may have been arranged in some haste since the Worcester chancellor allowed the marriage banns to be read once instead of the usual three times, and six months after the marriage Anne gave birth to a daughter, Susanna, baptised 26 May 1583. Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596. After the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of his name in the "complaints bill" of a law case before the Queen's Bench court at Westminster dated Michaelmas Term 1588 and 9 October 1589. Scholars refer to the years between 1585 and 1592 as Shakespeare's "lost years". Biographers attempting to account for this period have reported many apocryphal stories. Nicholas Rowe, Shakespeare's first biographer, recounted a Stratford legend that Shakespeare fled the town for London to escape prosecution for deer poaching in the estate of local squire Thomas Lucy. Shakespeare is also supposed to have taken his revenge on Lucy by writing a scurrilous ballad about him. Another 18th-century story has Shakespeare starting his theatrical career minding the horses of theatre patrons in London. John Aubrey reported that Shakespeare had been a country schoolmaster. Some 20th-century scholars suggested that Shakespeare may have been employed as a schoolmaster by Alexander Hoghton of Lancashire, a Catholic landowner who named a certain "William Shakeshafte" in his will. Little evidence substantiates such stories other than hearsay collected after his death, and Shakeshafte was a common name in the Lancashire area. London and theatrical career It is not known definitively when Shakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592. By then, he was sufficiently known in London to be attacked in print by the playwright Robert Greene in his Groats-Worth of Wit: ... there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country. Scholars differ on the exact meaning of Greene's words, but most agree that Greene was accusing Shakespeare of reaching above his rank in trying to match such university-educated writers as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and Greene himself (the so-called "University Wits"). The italicised phrase parodying the line "Oh, tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide" from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3, along with the pun "Shake-scene", clearly identify Shakespeare as Greene's target. As used here, Johannes Factotum ("Jack of all trades") refers to a second-rate tinkerer with the work of others, rather than the more common "universal genius".Greene's attack is the earliest surviving mention of Shakespeare's work in the theatre. Biographers suggest that his career may have begun any time from the mid-1580s to ju.... Discover the William Shakespeare popular books. Find the top 100 most popular William Shakespeare books.

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: Julius Caesar
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Conspirators, some high-minded like Brutus, others not, plot the assassination of the dictator Julius Caesar to save the Roman republic from tyranny. But after Caesar's death, they find them...

: Julius Caesar
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The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Shak...

: The Comedy of Errors
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Shakespeare's shortest and most farcical comedy, involving two sets of identical brothers, both separated at birth: Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse, and their respective ser...

: The Tempest
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In exile on a remote island, Prospero has spent the past 12 years studying magic and plotting revenge against his enemies, Alonso, Antonio, and Sebastian. When all his usurpers pass nearby o...

: As You Like It
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The elaborate gender reversals in this pastoral comedy set in the Forest of Arden are of considerable interest to modern critics. At one point in the play, the heroine Rosalind becomes a boy...

: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia, but so does Demetrius. Hermia's friend Helena loves Demetrius. These four find themselves lost deep in the woods and in the middle of a royal fa...

: Much Ado About Nothing
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Spanish prince Don Pedro arrives in Messina following a victory, along with his righthand men, Benedick and Claudio. The local governor welcomes them with open arms, and Claudio falls in lov...

: Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Some editions include several works which were not c...

: Macbeth
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After receiving a prophecy of his future kingship from three witches, Macbeth, encouraged by his wife, murders King Duncan. His reign continues bloodily and his conscience increasingly distu...

: The Taming of the Shrew
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In Shakespeare's controversial but funny play-within-a-play, the foul-tempered Katherina has managed to keep any suitors away with her aura of nastiness. Her beautiful and demure sister Bian...

: Hamlet: The Shakesperience
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A Hands-on Experience with Shakespeare Experience Hamlet in an unexpected and exciting new way with The Shakesperience, which combines an engagingly touchable inte...

: Much Ado about Nothing
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LEONATO. I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina. MESSENGER. He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him.

: Julius Caesar
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men shoul...

: The Winter's Tale
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King Leontes becomes convinced his pregnant wife Hermione is having an affair with his best friend.

: The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes
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The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original ...

: Richard II
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An argument between the Duke of Norfolk and the king's cousin, Henry, has grown from a dispute over money to an accusation of murder. The two men turn to King Richard II to solve the dilemma...

: Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest plays ever written--but let's face it..if you don't understand it, then you are not alone. With this "TapSpeare" edition, if there's a pas...

: Romeo and Juliet
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In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are e...

: Twelfth Night
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"If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came...

: Shakespeare's Sonnets
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One of the great sonnet sequences of all time – 154 poems exploring love, desire, envy and jealousy, and the ravages of time. Possibly an autobiographical suite of poems leading us closer ...

: Henry IV, Part 2
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With Hotspur dead, the King's army had effectively crushed the rebellion. As the kingdom moves back toward stability, Prince Hal drifts back into hanging out with low company, embarassing hi...

: Titus Andronicus
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Taking his cue from the Roman plays of Seneca, Shakespeare piles on the horrors in this tale of murderous revenge. The most appalling moment is either the discovery of Titus's raped daughter...

: Macbeth
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Returning home from battle, Scottish warrior and nobleman Macbeth encounters three witches, seeking to deliver a prophecy. They tell him that he will ascend in rank, and ultimately become ki...

: The Tempest
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Prospero, a mage and former Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda have been stranded for 12 years on an island. Prospero's brother Antonio, who deposed him, is shipwrecked with his son Fer...

: Othello
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In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends ...

: Sonnets
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A new edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, formatted for optimum display on modern ebook readers. Contains all 154 sonnets, along with a fully-linked active table of contents indexed by t...

: The Merchant of Venice
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The merchant Antonio promises Shylock that if he defaults on his borrowing, he will pay the Jewish money-lender a pound of his flesh. When he can't pay, Shylock insists on his bond. The case...

: Henry V
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Young King Henry V has been arguing with the French over territory rights. Feeling insulted and wronged by the perceived French inflexibility, the king rallies together his troops to invade....

: Romeo and Juliet
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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. ...

: Hamlet
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The ghost of the recently deceased king of Denmark appears on the walls of Elsinore Castle, crying out for vengeance against his brother and murderer, the recently crowned king Claudius. But...

: Macbeth (German Edition)
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Das Drama beginnt mit dem gespenstischen Auftritt von drei Hexen, die inmitten eines Gewitters darüber beraten, wann und wo sie mit Macbeth zusammentreffen wollen. Gleichzeitig findet bei&#...

: Hamlet
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The prince of Denmark tries to summon the will to kill his father's murderer, his uncle and now king.

: King Lear
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Lear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Goneril and ...

: Richard III
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When Richard looks at his brother, King Edward IV, he is so blinded by jealousy that he can only see a tyrant. In spite of his brother's peaceful and stabile reign, Richard bemoans it a...

: Hamlet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, th...

: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are...

: Romeo and Juliet: The Shakesperience
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A Hands-on Experience with Shakespeare Experience Romeo and Juliet in an unexpected and exciting new way with The Shakesperience, which combines an engagingly touc...

: Henry IV, Part 1
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The crown weighs heavily on King Henry IV. Relations are poor with the Welsh and the Scottish. His former allies from Northumberland, who helped him seize the throne, are revolting over an a...

: Twelfth Night
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Viola is shipwrecked and believes her twin, Sebastian, has been killed. Masquerading as a boy, she enters the service of Duke Orsino, who is in love with Olivia. Olivia, believing Viola male...

: Macbeth: The Shakesperience
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A Hands-on Experience with Shakespeare Experience Macbeth in an unexpected and exciting new way with The Shakesperience, which combines an engagingly touchable...

: King Lear
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"Love's not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from the entire point." King Lear is old and weary, and has reached the age where it is time to divide his kingd...

: Hamlet
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Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murd...

: Macbeth
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The authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In 1603, J...

: Romeo and Juliet
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An Apple Books Classic edition. Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy has inspired musicals, ballets, operas, and, of course, countless movies, including Italian director Franco Zeffi...

: The Complete Works of Shakespeare
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The most complete collection of Shakespeare's works available in a single book, containing 41 plays, 7 poems and 154 sonnets. This edition includes co-authored and rare apocrypha works, such...

: Othello
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Othello, a successful Moorish general in the service of Venice, elopes with Desdemona, the daughter of a Venetian noble. His evil lieutenant Iago works on his jealousy and persuades him that...

: Othello
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"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; Oft got without merit and lost without deserving." In the city of Venice, a dark-skinned military commander named Othello ...

: Coriolanus
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It is the early days of the Roman Republic. The new government is plagued by riots, food shortages, and resentment between classes. Additionally, the Romans continue to clash with their neig...

: The Taming of the Shrew
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Baptista Minola has two daughters, the beautiful Bianca and the shrewish Katherina. A visiting stranger, Petruchio, learns of Katherina's large dowry, marries her and through his own even mo...

: Macbeth (Finnish Edition)
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Macbeth on tragedia kirjoittanut William Shakespeare, ja sitä pidetään yhtenä hänen synkimpinä ja tehokkain teoksia. Aseta Skotlannissa, leikkiä dramatizes syövyttäviä psykologisia...

Best Seller William Shakespeare Audio Books of April 2021

: All the World's a Stage: A Collection of Shakespeare's Speeches (Original Staging)
09 May 2007Classics$5.99
Here is a collection of Shakespeare's most inspiring speeches from the BBC Sound Archives, including: Romeo & Juliet - Act I, Scene III"O Romeo, Romeo - wherefore art ...

: The Rape of Lucrece (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]
26 January 2001Drama & Poetry$7.99
David Ian Davies performs this unique and exciting reading of William Shakespeare's erotic poem, The Rape of Lucrece. It describes the inflamed lust of Tarquin, a Roman lord, in his ...

: King Richard the Third (Unabridged)
16 December 1999Classics$11.99
A tragedy, a comedy, and a history all rolled into one, the story of the tyrannical Richard III ranks among Shakespeare's most popular plays. Opening with the famous "Now is the winter of ou...

: SPAudiobooks Hamlet (Dramatised) (Unabridged)
28 October 2009Classics$7.99
Award-winning drama from SmartPass. Unabridged, with guided description to set the scene and fill in visual moments. From the creators of SmartPass guides, named 2004 & 2005 Best ...

: John Gielgud's Hamlet
31 August 2006Classics$14.99
This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud's greatest moments. Though he we...

: Richard Burton's Hamlet (Original Staging Fiction)
01 January 1995Drama & Poetry$6.99
This production of Hamlet, directed by Sir John Gielgud and starring Richard Burton, was recorded in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City during a spectacular season for Broadwa...

: BBC Radio Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part One (Dramatized)
27 May 2005Classics$10.99
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed a...

: SPAudiobooks Henry V (Unabridged, Dramatised)
06 June 2006Classics$6.99
An award winning drama from SmartPass. Unabridged with guided description to set the scene and fill in visual moments.

: Hamlet: The Arkangel Shakespeare
13 May 2014Classics$9.99
Shakespeare's most famous play is one of the greatest stories in the literature of the world. Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Pri...

: Henry V: Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)
11 November 2008Arts & Entertainment$14.99
Experience Henry V as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get th...

: The Winter's Tale (Unabridged)
16 December 1999Classics$17.99
A king's mad jealousy tears his family apart in this rich, tragicomic play, one of Shakespeare's last. When King Leontes suspects his wife, Hermione, has been unfaithful, he sends her to pri...

: Hamlet (Dramatized)
16 August 2009Classics$11.99
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'...

: Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them
20 February 2012Drama & Poetry$4.99
How did Shakespeare sound to the audiences of his day? For the first time, this audio offers listeners the chance to hear England's greatest playwright performed by a company of actors using...

: Troilus & Cressida (Unabridged)
14 July 2009Classics$8.99
Troilus and Cressida is set during the latter years of the Trojan War, faithfully following the plotline of the Iliad from Achilles' refusal to participate in battle to Hector's death. This ...

: The Tempest (Unabridged)
18 August 2009Classics$11.99
A magical tale of enchantment, retribution and love. Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, is betrayed by his brother and exiled to a desert island with his daughter Miranda. With the help o...

: Tales from Shakespeare: The Lambs' Tales (Unabridged)
12 May 2010Classics$11.99
Discover Shakespeare’s best-loved plays. A perfect introduction for all ages to the breadth and beauty of Shakespeare's work, Tales from Shakespearehas become a classic ...

: Romeo & Juliet (Unabridged)
11 May 2009Drama & Poetry$7.99
A classic staged performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by the Old Vic Company. Starring Claire Bloom and Alan Bandel.

: Shakespeare's Classic The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: (Annotated) with a Study of Themes, an Overview and Famous Quotes (Unabridged)
18 October 2019Classics$5.99
Unique to this collection is: An overview of the tragedy Romeo and Juliet A study of the themes present in the tragedy Romeo and Juliet...

: SPAudiobooks Macbeth (Unabridged, Dramatised)
06 June 2006Classics$9.99
An award winning drama from SmartPass. Unabridged with guided description to set the scene and fill in visual moments.

: Romeo and Juliet: Arkangel Shakespeare
09 May 2014Classics$9.99
In the world's most celebrated and lyrical love story, the sublime devotion of two young lovers transcends their earthly fate. The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet a...

: SPAudiobooks Julius Caesar (Dramatised) (Unabridged)
30 October 2009Classics$7.99
Award winning drama from SmartPass. Unabridged, with guided description to set the scene and fill in visual moments. From the creators of SmartPass guides, named 2004 & 2005 Best Drama, ...

: SPAudiobooks Romeo and Juliet (Unabridged, Dramatised) (Unabridged)
14 June 2006Classics$7.99
An award winning drama from SmartPass. Unabridged with guided description to set the scene and fill in visual moments.

: Much Ado About Nothing
27 August 2009Classics$7.99
Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy that revolves around obstacles presented to two young lovers, as well as a "merry war" of the sexes. (A full-cast production.)

: Hamlet: Shakespeare Appreciated (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)
26 October 2009Arts & Entertainment$14.99
Experience Hamlet as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most out of Sha...

: Macbeth: The Arkangel Shakespeare
13 May 2014Classics$7.99
Sinister supernatural forces are at work in this fast-paced tragedy of guilt and retribution, in which the power of human beings to control their own destiny is called into question.

: BBC Radio Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Dramatized)
01 April 2005Classics$10.99
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed a...

: Twelfth Night: Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)
11 November 2008Arts & Entertainment$14.99
Experience Twelfth Night as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you ...

: BBC Radio Shakespeare: King Lear (Dramatized)
15 April 2005Classics$10.99
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed a...

: King Richard the Third (Unabridged)
01 January 1967Drama & Poetry$11.99
A tragedy, a comedy, and a history all rolled into one, the story of the tyrannical Richard III ranks among Shakespeare's most popular plays. Opening with the famous "Now is the winter of ou...

: BBC Radio Shakespeare: Antony & Cleopatra (Dramatized) [Original Staging Fiction]
29 March 2005Classics$10.99
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed a...

: BBC Radio Shakespeare: Coriolanus (Dramatized)
29 April 2005Classics$10.99
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed a...

: Romeo y Julieta (Dramatizado) [Romeo and Juliet (Dramatized)] [Abridged Fiction]
06 February 2008Classics$9.99
FonoLibro está orgulloso en presentar el audiolibro en español una de las más famosas y primera historias de amor, Romeo y Julieta escrita por William Shakespeare. Este au...

: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Abridged Fiction)
18 June 2008Kids & Young Adults$5.99
Some playful fairies decide to make mischief with unsuspecting humans. Can true love overcome all obstacles? Two young Athenian couples are put to the test. Comedy reigns in this enchanting ...

: She Walks in Beauty: Classic Love Poems (Unabridged)
23 January 2019Drama & Poetry$3.99
Enjoy these classic love poems by authors you may know and poets you may be meeting for the first time. The journey begins in beauty, endures trials, and ends with a hint of...

: The Tempest (Abridged Fiction)
12 June 2008Kids & Young Adults$5.99
Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, were put out to sea in nothing more than a raft but were miraculously spared, arriving safely on an enchanted island. Using t...

: King Lear (Dramatized)
18 August 2009Classics$8.99
King Lear is one of Shakespeare's greatest and darkest works. Lear banishes his favorite daughter when she seemingly speaks out against him. However, he does not know that his two oth...

: Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them
17 February 2012Drama & Poetry$5.99
How did Shakespeare sound to the audiences of his day? For the first time, this audio offers listeners the chance to hear England's greatest playwright performed by a company of actors using...

: Macbeth: Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)
28 October 2008Drama & Poetry$14.99
Experience Macbeth as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most o...

: Hamlet
18 February 2010Drama & Poetry$8.99
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is set in Denmark, and recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the...

: Twelfth Night
15 June 2010Classics$3.99
Orson Welles presents a condensed version of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night.

: As You Like It (Unabridged)
21 August 2009Classics$4.99
The Marlowe Society perform Shakespeare's comedy 'As You Like It' which follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court to find safety and eventually love in the F...

: BBC Radio Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well (Dramatized) [Original Staging Fiction]
15 April 2005Classics$10.99
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed a...

: The Best Poems of All Time, Volume 1 (Abridged Nonfiction)
20 March 2001Drama & Poetry$5.99
This perfect poetry companion brings the words of the world's favorite poets to life. Hearing poetry spoken - as it was originally intended to be heard - adds dramatically to your understand...

: SPAudiobooks King Lear (Unabridged, Dramatised): SPAudiobooks (Unabridged, Dramatised) (Unabridged)
05 February 2008Classics$7.99
Award-winning drama from SmartPass. The play is unabridged, with guided description to set the scene and fill in visual moments.

: Julius Caesar: Shakespeare Appreciated (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)
26 October 2009Arts & Entertainment$14.99
Experience Julius Caesar as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most out...

: Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)
28 October 2008Arts & Entertainment$14.99
Experience Romeo and Juliet as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help y...

: Romeo and Juliet
23 May 2012Classics$6.99
The most iconic love story of all time, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an epic-scale tragedy of desire and revenge. Despite the bitter rivalry that exists between their families, R...

: Antony and Cleopatra (Dramatized) (Unabridged)
01 March 2009Classics$5.99
Antony and Cleopatra is the tumultuous tragedy and love story played out against a backdrop of war and the vengeance of Octavius Caesar.

: Henry V (Unabridged)
31 October 2008Drama & Poetry$17.99
Henry V defeats the French army at Agincourt to claim the throne of France and Catherine de Valois as his bride. This play contains Henry's famous "Feast of Saint Crispin" address, perhaps t...

: The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare (Unabridged)
18 August 2009Classics$10.99
For sustained dramatic intrigue and sophistication of plot, William Shakespeare's sonnets are at least the equal of his greatest plays. Throughout the centuries since their first publication...

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William Shakespeare Biography & Facts

Best Seller William Shakespeare Books of April 2021

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

The Comedy of Errors

The Tempest

As You Like It

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Macbeth

The Taming of the Shrew

Hamlet: The Shakesperience

Much Ado about Nothing

Julius Caesar

The Winter's Tale

The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

Richard II

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Henry IV, Part 2

Titus Andronicus

Macbeth

The Tempest

Othello

Sonnets

The Merchant of Venice

Henry V

Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet

Macbeth (German Edition)

Hamlet

King Lear

Richard III

Hamlet

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Romeo and Juliet: The Shakesperience

Henry IV, Part 1

Twelfth Night

Macbeth: The Shakesperience

King Lear

Hamlet

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Othello

Othello

Coriolanus

The Taming of the Shrew

Macbeth (Finnish Edition)

Best Seller William Shakespeare Audio Books of April 2021

All the World's a Stage: A Collection of Shakespeare's Speeches (Original Staging)

The Rape of Lucrece (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]

King Richard the Third (Unabridged)

SPAudiobooks Hamlet (Dramatised) (Unabridged)

John Gielgud's Hamlet

Richard Burton's Hamlet (Original Staging Fiction)

BBC Radio Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part One (Dramatized)

SPAudiobooks Henry V (Unabridged, Dramatised)

Hamlet: The Arkangel Shakespeare

Henry V: Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)

The Winter's Tale (Unabridged)

Hamlet (Dramatized)

Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them

Troilus & Cressida (Unabridged)

The Tempest (Unabridged)

Tales from Shakespeare: The Lambs' Tales (Unabridged)

Romeo & Juliet (Unabridged)

Shakespeare's Classic The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: (Annotated) with a Study of Themes, an Overview and Famous Quotes (Unabridged)

SPAudiobooks Macbeth (Unabridged, Dramatised)

Romeo and Juliet: Arkangel Shakespeare

SPAudiobooks Julius Caesar (Dramatised) (Unabridged)

SPAudiobooks Romeo and Juliet (Unabridged, Dramatised) (Unabridged)

Much Ado About Nothing

Hamlet: Shakespeare Appreciated (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)

Macbeth: The Arkangel Shakespeare

BBC Radio Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Dramatized)

Twelfth Night: Shakespeare Appreciated: (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options) (Unabridged)