Creator: Hannah Gordon
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-07-31
Dewey code: 792.102908
RRP: £16.44
Price: £5.93
Review Pygmalion (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:
Creator: Dawn French
Publication date: 2005-01-03
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.54
Review A Certain Age: Women's Monologues v. 1 (BBC Audio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-03-01
Dewey code: 821
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.20
Review Great Poets: Shelley, The (Great Poets) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Bernard Palmer
Publication date: 2005-02-14
RRP: £9.95
Price: £9.94
Review Sonnets by William Shakespeare / Classical Communications Ltd:
Edition: Col Una
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.01
Review Great Poets: Emily Dickinson, The (Great Poets) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: John Shrapnel
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £58.74
Price: £28.31
Review The Divine Comedy - Unabridged / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Woodward
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1994-10-31
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.42
Review Great Speeches and Soliloquies (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-04-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.16
Review King Richard III: Performed by Kenneth Branagh & Cast (Classic Drama): Performed by Kenneth Branagh & Cast (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:"Now is the winter of our discontent," intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard III, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that "I am determined to prove a villain". Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of Richard III, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.51
Review Alan Bennett, Single Spies (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Irene Worth
Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.93
Review Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats / HarperCollins Audio:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-08-01
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £16.44
Price: £6.61
Review Hamlet (Classic Drama) (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 1997-09-01
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.52
Review The Pam Ayres Poetry Collection (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Marcella Riordan
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09-30
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.42
Review The Life and Poetry of W.B.Yeats (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Fiona Shaw
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-07-31
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.50
Review Macbeth (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent. However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2005-11-03
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.42
Review Said and Done / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Heathcote Williams
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-02-28
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.77
Review Inferno: From "The Divine Comedy" / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: A. C. Spearing
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-01-21
Dewey code: 372
RRP: £14.98
Price: £10.91
Review The Merchant's Prologue and Tale CD: From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by A. C. Spearing (Selected Tales from Chaucer) / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Richard Bebb
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-02-01
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.14
Review The Pardoner's Tale: Unabridged (Naxos Complete Texts): Unabridged (Complete Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.91
Review The Iliad: Abridged (Naxos Poetry) / Naxos AudioBooks:
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