Publication date: 1997-07
RRP: £11.74
Price: £13.73
Review Nonsense Tree (Audio Theatre Adventure) / Quantum Leap:
Creator: Margaret Leighton
Publication date: 1992-01-09
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.98
Review The Taming of the Shrew: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Authors
- Anthony Daniels
- John Lithgow
- George Lucas
- Edward Asner
Dewey code: 791.4472
RRP: £25.95
Price: £4.75
Review Return of the Jedi (Star Wars (Penguin Audio)) / Penguin Books Australia Ltd:Although Return of the Jedi is considered by many to be the weakest of the three original Star Wars films, this is by far the best of the three novelisations. James Kahn's powers of description are stylish and assured and he plays to the strengths of the novel format, taking the opportunity to explore the inner thoughts and emotions of his characters in amongst the action sequences. Of course, there is plenty of action, and Kahn handles the main set-pieces well. The struggle above the Sarlacc pit as Han Solo is rescued from Jabba the Hutt, the speeder bike chase amongst the giant trees of Endor, and the final extended battle as it intercuts between the two space fleets, the surface of the forest moon of Endor and Luke's struggle with Darth Vader and the evil Emperor, all of these are fast-paced and evocative, bringing back memories of forgotten visual details from the film. This is an entertaining way to relive the adventure, and provides a fine conclusion to the trilogy. -Elizabeth Sourbut.
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £12.93
Review Tom Stoppard / Sussex Publications:
Creator: Michael Maloney
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.43
Review King Richard III: Performed by Kenneth Branagh & Cast (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.97
Review Jarvis's Frayn / CSA WORD:
Creator: Sue Rodwell
Publication date: 1999-07
RRP: £11.99
Price: £11.98
Review Great British Trials: Dr.H.H.Crippen (Great British Trials) / Mr Punch Audio Books:
Publication date: 1997-07
RRP: £11.74
Price: £13.73
Review Tales Told by an Idiot (Audio Theatre Adventure) / Quantum Leap:
Creator: Joss Ackland
Publication date: 2000-04-03
Dewey code: 822
Price: £10.99
Review King Richard II: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Sam West & Joss Ackland (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:One of Shakespeare's finest history plays, Richard II deals with one of the most sensitive and politically explosive issues of its day-the rights and wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. Forerunner to the two parts of Henry IV, the play deals with the abdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard's death in the spring of 1400. But the play has been celebrated above and beyond its stature as historical drama. Richard II begins with a portrait of Richard as a pompous, arrogant and self-regarding sovereign, with little sense of his people or his political responsibilities. As he consistently miscalculates in his attempts to destroy Bolingbroke, and watches his own power wane, he becomes a far more appealing, Hamlet-like figure, more interested in "talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs", and "sad stories of the death of kings". Richard's speeches become increasingly lyrical and poetic as his supporters desert him, until he finally takes on the stature of the pilloried Christ in the climax of the play, the deposition scene, one of the most politically risky scenes in all of Shakespeare. The play remains most famous for John of Gaunt's "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle" speech, but historians believe that the play was also performed in the streets of London in 1601 in support of the Earl of Essex's attempt to depose Elizabeth I. Whilst the plot failed, it showed the power of the theatre of the time, and the politically controversial nature of Shakespeare's play. -Jerry Brotton.
Authors
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Forrest
Publication date: 1997-05
Price: £9.99
Review The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr.Hyde: Starring Tom Fleming & Alexander Morton / Mr Punch Audio Books:
Edition: Argo1355
Publication date: 1993-12-31
RRP: £7.99
Price: £44.99
Review The World of Shakespeare / Argo:
Publication date: 1997-07
RRP: £11.74
Price: £13.73
Review Mansfield Park (Audio Theatre Classic) / Quantum Leap:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1993-12-31
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £11.50
Price: £51.66
Review Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade: The Workshop / Penton Overseas Inc:
Creator: S. Solomon French
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Racine: An Introduction / Sussex Publications:
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Harold Pinter / Sussex Publications:
Authors
- William Shakespeare
- Naxos AudioBooks
Publication date: 1997-10-23
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £18.79
Price: £13.48
Review Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Audio Cassettes: Prince of Denmark (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) / Cambridge University Press: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.
Authors
- Naxos AudioBooks
- William Shakespeare
Dewey code: 820
RRP: £14.09
Price: £9.05
Review The Tempest Audio Cassette (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Lynn Redgrave
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1994-12-05
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review Pygmalion: Performed by Sir Michael Redgrave & Cast / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: David Alan Stern
Edition: Pap/Cas
Publication date: 1990-01-01
RRP: £13.50
Price: £8.90
Review Dialect Monologues: Vol 1 (Dialect Monologues) / Dramaline Publications,U.S.:
Creator: Sue Rodwell
Publication date: 1999-07
RRP: £9.99
Price: £11.98
Review Great British Trials: Christie and Evans (Great British Trials) / Mr Punch Audio Books:
| Models & Brands:
Nonsense Tree (Audio Theatre Adventure), The Taming of the Shrew: Complete & Unabridged, Return of the Jedi (Star Wars (Penguin Audio)), Tom Stoppard, King Richard III: Performed by Kenneth Branagh & Cast (Classic Drama), Jarvis's Frayn, Great British Trials: Dr.H.H.Crippen (Great British Trials), Tales Told by an Idiot (Audio Theatre Adventure), King Richard II: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Sam West & Joss Ackland (BBC Radio Collection), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr.Hyde: Starring Tom Fleming & Alexander Morton, The World of Shakespeare, Mansfield Park (Audio Theatre Classic), Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade: The Workshop, Racine: An Introduction, Harold Pinter, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Audio Cassettes: Prince of Denmark (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio), The Tempest Audio Cassette (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio), Pygmalion: Performed by Sir Michael Redgrave & Cast, Dialect Monologues: Vol 1 (Dialect Monologues), Great British Trials: Christie and Evans (Great British Trials) |
