Creator: Alex Jennings
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-07
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £16.44
Price: £7.93
Review Stories from Shakespeare: "Julius Caesar ", "The Merchant of Venice", " The Taming of the Shrew", "As You Like it", "Richard II", "Henry IV Part I and ... Wives of Windsor" v. 2 (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Paul Parks
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-29
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.41
Review Abracadabra Cello: Pupil's Book Bk. 1 (Abracadabra) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-04-01
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £55.00
Price: £31.21
Review Clear Mind, Wild Heart / Sounds True Inc.,U.S.:
Creator: Sian Phillips
Publication date: 2004-11-01
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £50.00
Price: £39.56
Review A Season of Dylan Thomas (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.47
Review Access Accents: Yorkshire (North, West and South) (Performance Books):
Publication date: 2005-11-03
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.40
Review Said and Done / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: First
Publication date: 2007-10-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.78
Review The Anthology Of English Poetry: 1 / Saland Publishing:
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.86
Review Sanctuary:
Creator: etc.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-07-30
Dewey code: 792.102908
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.41
Review Hedda Gabler (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2003-06-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.85
Review Sympathy for the Devil (Doctor Who Unbound) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Creator: Rupert Graves
Publication date: 2006-03-13
RRP: £11.32
Price: £9.00
Review Trials of Oscar Wilde: AND The Portrait of Dorian Gray / CSA WORD:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.56
Review The Iliad: Abridged (Naxos Poetry) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Regine Candler
Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.79
Review War Poems / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Philip Madoc
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-03-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.93
Review The Arabian Nights (The great tales) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Stella Gonet
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-02-08
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.16
Review Measure for Measure (Arkangel Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:
Creator: Dame Edith Evans
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-03
Dewey code: 792.202908
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.94
Review The Importance of Being Earnest (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2003-06-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.81
Review Project: Lazarus (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-03
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £12.91
Price: £5.06
Review Krapp's Last Tape and Not I / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Gerard Murphy
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-10-31
Dewey code: 822.33
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.49
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.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-06-02
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.00
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.
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Stories from Shakespeare: "Julius Caesar ", "The Merchant of Venice", " The Taming of the Shrew", "As You Like it", "Richard II", "Henry IV Part I and ... Wives of Windsor" v. 2 (Junior Classics), Abracadabra Cello: Pupil's Book Bk. 1 (Abracadabra), Clear Mind, Wild Heart, A Season of Dylan Thomas (Radio Collection), Access Accents: Yorkshire (North, West and South) (Performance Books), Said and Done, The Anthology Of English Poetry: 1, Sanctuary, Hedda Gabler (Classic Drama), Sympathy for the Devil (Doctor Who Unbound), Trials of Oscar Wilde: AND The Portrait of Dorian Gray, The Iliad: Abridged (Naxos Poetry), War Poems, The Arabian Nights (The great tales), Measure for Measure (Arkangel Shakespeare), The Importance of Being Earnest (Classic Drama), Project: Lazarus (Doctor Who), Krapp's Last Tape and Not I, Twelfth Night (Classic Drama), Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Classic Drama): Prince of Denmark (Classic Drama) |
