Creator: Sue Rodwell
Publication date: 1999-07
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.98
Review Great British Trials: Ruth Ellis, Dr. H.H.Crippen, Christie and Evans v. 1 (Audio Books) / Mr Punch Audio Books:
Authors
- Austin Gill
- Michael Sadler
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Comedy in Moliere's Workshop / Sussex Publications:
Creator: Gareth Thomas
Price: £7.50
Review Under Milk Wood: Anthony Hopkins & Cast [1992]: Anthony Hopkins & Cast / Listen for Pleasure:
Authors
- Stanley W. Wells
- John Wilders
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £12.93
Review "Troilus and Cressida" / Sussex Publications:
Creator: Timothy West
Publication date: 1998-11
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.98
Review Shakespeare: His Life and Work: Abridged / CSA WORD:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £9.99
Review The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: the Two Noble Kinsmen (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:Shakespeare's last dramatic work, Two Noble Kinsmen has often been marginalised by editors who believe that Shakespeare was just one of its many writers. This does a disservice to what is a fascinating and haunting play. The two noble kinsmen of the play's title are Palamon and his cousin Arcite, Thebans who have sworn a vow of friendship until death, claiming, "Is there record of any two that loved/Better than we do?" King Theseus of Athens leads an invasion against Thebes, and returns to Athens with the two cousins, who both fall in love with Princess Emilia, Theseus' sister-in-law. Both become rivals for Emilia's hand, incurring the wrath of Theseus. The action moves to the forest, where Palamon and Arcite prepare to duel over Emilia, only to be interrupted by Theseus, who delays the duel for one month, commanding that whoever wins the duel will marry Emilia, whilst the loser will be executed. On the day Arcite defeats Palamon, but is then crushed under his own horse. As he dies he bequeaths Emilia's hand to his cousin. The play ends with their wedding ceremony. Two Noble Kinsmen concludes with a note of resignation, as Theseus says "Let us be thankful/For that which is, and with you leave dispute/That are above our question", but as always, it is dangerous to see this as Shakespeare pronouncing on life itself, or simply another character in one of his plays voicing a particularly elegiac viewpoint on the sad events portrayed. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £9.99
Review The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: Henry V (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:
RRP: £45.00
Price: £46.99
Review Novio Robado / Audio-Forum:
RRP: £45.00
Price: £46.99
Review Spur Fuhrt Nach Bayern / Audio-Forum:
Publication date: 1982-12
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review German Drama: A Critical History / Sussex Publications:
Authors
- Brian Morris
- Moelwyn Merchant
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review "Merchant of Venice" / Sussex Publications:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £9.99
Review The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:All's Well That Ends Well has generally been considered one of Shakespeare's most difficult and unpopular plays. Labelled a "Problem Comedy", editors believe that the play was written between 1604 and 1605, and exhibits a darkening of Shakespeare's interest in comedy. The play deals with the complicated relationship between Helena, the daughter of a famous physician, and Bertram, the arrogant son of the Countess of Roussillon. Helena is secretly in love with Bertram, and when she miraculously cures the ailing King, she asks for Bertram's hand in marriage, to which the grateful sovereign happily agrees. Bertram bitterly opposes marriage to Helena, who he regards as a social inferior. After reluctantly agreeing to the marriage, Bertram flees to the wars in Italy with his companion Parolles. What ensues is Helena's increasingly desperate and complex attempts to retrieve her errant husband, which involves various machinations and a piece of mistaken identity and an infamous "bed-trick" which has never fully convinced audiences or critics. More recently critics have been kinder to the play, seeing its cynical disillusionment with romance as reflecting contemporary social and political anxieties about warfare and commerce, and feminist critics have been keen to celebrate Helena as a particularly complex heroine. The play is also fascinated by language, encapsulated in the character of Parolles (or "words"), and his memorable line for which the play is chiefly remembered: "Simply the thing I am / Shall make me live". -Jerry Brotton.
Creator: Stephen G. Daitz
RRP: £33.00
Price: £34.99
Review Birds / Audio-Forum:
Authors
- Brian Morris
- Moelwyn Merchant
RRP: £12.93
Price: £14.92
Review Background to "Hamlet" / Sussex Publications:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £9.99
Review The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: Henry VI Part 3 (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:
Publication date: 1999-01
Price: £12.99
Review Under Milk Wood: Richard Burton & All Welsh Cast / Argo:
Creator: Sue Rodwell
Publication date: 1999-07
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.91
Review Great British Trials: Ruth Ellis (Great British Trials) / Mr Punch Audio Books:
Publication date: 1997-02
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.98
Review The Merchant of Venice: Starring Dame Peggy Ashcroft & Cast / Bespoke Audio:
Authors
- William Shakespeare
- Naxos AudioBooks
Publication date: 2000-12-21
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £16.44
Price: £12.17
Review Othello Audio Cassettes (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) / Cambridge University Press:If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. However, his ensign Iago harbours an obscure hatred against his general, and when Othello secretly marries the beautiful daughter of the Venetian senator Brabanzio, Iago begins his subtle campaign of vilification which will inevitably lead to the deaths of more than just Othello and Desdemona. An extraordinary play, both for its dramatic economy and power as well as its remarkable language, from Othello's bombastic "traveller's history" to Desdemona's elegiac "willow song", the play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing problems of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. Particularly fascinated with the question of what it means to "see", Othello also contains one of the greatest tragic death scenes in all of Shakespeare, with Othello's final identification with "a malignant and a turbaned Turk". -Jerry Brotton.
Creator: Robert Stephens
Publication date: 1996-01-22
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.25
Review All's Well That Ends Well: Performed by Claire Bloom, Robert Stephens & Cast / HarperCollins Audio:All's Well That Ends Well has generally been considered one of Shakespeare's most difficult and unpopular plays. Labelled a "Problem Comedy", editors believe that the play was written between 1604 and 1605, and exhibits a darkening of Shakespeare's interest in comedy. The play deals with the complicated relationship between Helena, the daughter of a famous physician, and Bertram, the arrogant son of the Countess of Roussillon. Helena is secretly in love with Bertram, and when she miraculously cures the ailing King, she asks for Bertram's hand in marriage, to which the grateful sovereign happily agrees. Bertram bitterly opposes marriage to Helena, who he regards as a social inferior. After reluctantly agreeing to the marriage, Bertram flees to the wars in Italy with his companion Parolles. What ensues is Helena's increasingly desperate and complex attempts to retrieve her errant husband, which involves various machinations and a piece of mistaken identity and an infamous "bed-trick" which has never fully convinced audiences or critics. More recently critics have been kinder to the play, seeing its cynical disillusionment with romance as reflecting contemporary social and political anxieties about warfare and commerce, and feminist critics have been keen to celebrate Helena as a particularly complex heroine. The play is also fascinated by language, encapsulated in the character of Parolles (or "words"), and his memorable line for which the play is chiefly remembered: "Simply the thing I am / Shall make me live". -Jerry Brotton.
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