Publication date: 2007-09-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.35
Review Revolting People: Series 1 (BBC Audio) / Andy Hamilton:
Creator: Gerard Murphy
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-10-31
Dewey code: 822.33
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.18
Review Twelfth Night (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm, which washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing each other to be dead, both attempt to survive by using their wits. Viola cross-dresses and enters the service of the lovesick Orsino, in love with Olivia, an heiress in mourning for the loss of her brother. Orsino's saucy young page Cesario (Viola) soon falls in love with "his" master, who tells "him", "all is semblative a woman's part". Unfortunately, whilst Viola falls in love with Orsino, Olivia falls in love with her alter ego, Cesario, whilst also being pursued at the same time by her pompous servant Malvolio. Olivia's house is also turned upside down by the antics of her drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and the whole crazy situation reaches boiling point when Sebastian reappears. Despite the madcap plot, Twelfth Night remains one of Shakespeare's most complex and inventive comedies, fascinated with questions of cross-dressing, gender confusion, language and inversion, as well as retaining a darker edge to some of its laughter. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2005-11-16
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.79
Review The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Publication date: 1999-09-06
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.52
Review Hamlet: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Michael Sheen & Cast (BBC Radio Shakespeare) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Anton Lesser
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2004-12-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.44
Price: £6.30
Review The Canterbury Tales: Audio CDs (Modern English format): v. 1 (The Great Tales) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-03-20
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.34
Review Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Faber and Faber:
Creator: Ian McKellen
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.55
Price: £4.26
Review The Tempest" / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Rosalind Shanks
Publication date: 2002-09-23
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.55
Review The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-06-02
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.02
Review Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Classic Drama): Prince of Denmark (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600. For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-08-01
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £16.44
Price: £6.61
Review Hamlet (Classic Drama) (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-02-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.50
Review Lady Windermere's Fan : CDs: Performed by Juliet Stevenson & Cast (Classic Drama): Performed by Juliet Stevenson & Cast (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Warren Mitchell
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-11-30
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.68
Review A Midsummer Night's Dream: Performed by Warren Mitchell & Cast (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Sir Derek Jacobi
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06-30
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.32
Review The History of English Literature (Naxos AudioBooks Histories Series) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.72
Review The Iliad: Abridged (Naxos Poetry) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Cicely Herbert
Publication date: 2006-01-05
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.45
Review Poems on the Underground (CD) / Orion:"Poetry arrived/ in search of me" -Pablo NerudaLaunched in 1986 and now an established part of every London tube-traveller's experience, the Poems On The Underground project has proved a hugely successful attempt to introduce poetry into the city's public spaces and has since been taken up by many of the world's major cities as well as many smaller ones. Serendipitous and surprising, the encounter with poetry in the urban environment is often enlivening and provocative-a tribute to the enthusiasm of the editors. This new edition, twice as long as its predecessor, is partly organised around the current programme "1,000 years of English Poetry" but also contains poems "exchanged" with those chosen in other countries; the book thus contains an enormous range of verse from around the world and from past to present day, finding a place for the witty and the profound alike, for light verse as well as the serious or gnomic, for the popular and the more obscure. Some poets are represented by their most well-known pieces-Shelley's Ozymandias, Auden's Song (made famous by its inclusion in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral)-others by less familiar but no less potent poems. The current project also exhumes wonderful examples of early and middle English verse, an indication of the long and vital tradition of British poetry. Hopefully, future editions will find room for more poems in translation and more modern American verse (surely the most vital space for modern poetry in English). The almost haphazard nature of the selection-based on the principles of pleasure rather than dogma-result in a generous and happily democratic collection that is, paradoxically, a far stronger and more persuasive argument for the ongoing vitality of poetry than many more argumentative anthologies. The chance encounter with an affecting poem or unfamiliar poet is ample reason to invest in this book-where else would one find Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Betjeman, Paul Celan, Spike Milligan, Emily Dickinson and Guillaume Apollinaire sharing space together? Last words to Christopher Logue: "Last night in London Airport / I saw a wooden bin/ labelled UNWANTED LITERATURE / IS TO BE PLACED HEREIN. / So I wrote a poem/ and popped it in. " No longer so unwanted, thanks to this book. [+]-Burhan Tufail.
Publication date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.50
Review Alan Bennett, Untold Stories: Written on the Body Pt. 3 / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Col Una
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.95
Review Great Poets: Emily Dickinson, The (Great Poets) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.74
Review Alan Bennett, Single Spies (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 883.01
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.98
Review The Odyssey / Naxos AudioBooks:
Authors
- William Shakespeare
- Naxos AudioBooks
Publication date: 1998-02-26
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £19.96
Price: £13.44
Review The Sonnets CD set: Unabridged (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) / Cambridge University Press:
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Revolting People: Series 1 (BBC Audio), Twelfth Night (Classic Drama), The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, Hamlet: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Michael Sheen & Cast (BBC Radio Shakespeare), The Canterbury Tales: Audio CDs (Modern English format): v. 1 (The Great Tales), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Tempest", The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Radio Collection), Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Classic Drama): Prince of Denmark (Classic Drama), Hamlet (Classic Drama) (Classic Drama), Lady Windermere's Fan : CDs: Performed by Juliet Stevenson & Cast (Classic Drama): Performed by Juliet Stevenson & Cast (Classic Drama), A Midsummer Night's Dream: Performed by Warren Mitchell & Cast (Classic Drama), The History of English Literature (Naxos AudioBooks Histories Series), The Iliad: Abridged (Naxos Poetry), Poems on the Underground (CD), Alan Bennett, Untold Stories: Written on the Body Pt. 3, Great Poets: Emily Dickinson, The (Great Poets), Alan Bennett, Single Spies (BBC Audio), The Odyssey, The Sonnets CD set: Unabridged (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) |
