Publication date: 1997-07
RRP: £9.99
Price: £11.98
Review Beethoven: The Beloved Immortal (Audio Theatre Drama) / Quantum Leap:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £9.99
Review The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:
Creator: Simon Russell Beale
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-01
Price: £7.99
Review Shakespeare Stories: Merchant of Venice / Chivers Word for Word Audio Books:"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" Shylock's impassioned plea in the middle of The Merchant of Venice is one of its most dramatic moments. After the Holocaust, the play has become a battleground for those who argue that the play represents Shakespeare's ultimate statement against ignorance and anti-Semitism in favour of a liberal vision of tolerance and multiculturalism. Other critics have pointed out that the play is, after all, a comedy that ultimately pokes fun at a 16th-century Jew. In fact, the bare outline of the plot suggests that the play is far more complex than either of these characterisations. Bassanio, a feckless young Venetian, asks his wealthy friend, the merchant Antonio, for money to finance a trip to woo the beautiful Portia in Belmont. Reluctant to refuse his friend (to whom he professes intense love), Antonio borrows the money from the Jewish moneylender. If he reneges on the deal, Shylock jokingly demands a pound of his flesh. When all Antonio's ships are lost at sea, Shylock calls in his debt, and the love and laughter of the first scenes of the play threaten to give way to death and tragedy. The final climactic courtroom scene, complete with a cross-dressed Portia, a knife-wielding Shylock, and the debate on "the quality of mercy" is one of the great dramatic moments in Shakespeare. The controversial subject matter of the play ensures that it continues to repel, divide but also fascinate its many audiences. [+]-Jerry Brotton.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-09-03
Dewey code: 822
Price: £11.00
Review King Lear (BBC Radio Shakespeare) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1997-07
RRP: £11.74
Price: £13.73
Review The Moonstone (Audio Theatre Mystery) / Quantum Leap:
Publication date: 1997-02
RRP: £7.04
Price: £9.03
Review Romeo and Juliet: Starring Dame Flora Robson & Cast / Bespoke Audio:
Creator: Edward De Souza
Publication date: 1996-04-22
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.98
Review The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 1999-01
Price: £6.58
Review Titus Andronicus: Unabridged (Complete Works) / Argo:
Creator: Gerard Murphy
Publication date: 2000-04-03
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £10.99
Price: £99.50
Review As You Like It: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Helena Bonham-Carter, David Morrisey & Gerard Murphy (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Bill Homewood
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1994-09
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £11.99
Price: £1.99
Review Shakespeare's Lovers: Selected & Performed by Estelle Kohler & Bill Homewood (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-10-05
Price: £8.99
Review King Lear (Arkangel) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £9.99
Review The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: Henry VI Part 2 (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:
Creator: et al
Publication date: 1999-02-09
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £8.99
Price: £10.99
Review Much Ado About Nothing: Performed by Saskia Reeves & Cast (Arkangel) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £9.99
Review The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: Henry IV Part 2 (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:
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.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 780
Price: £9.99
Review King Henry V (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
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:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £9.99
Review The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:
Authors
- Naxos AudioBooks
- William Shakespeare
Publication date: 2001-05-03
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £16.44
Price: £11.23
Review King Richard III Audio cassette (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Bonnie Langford
Publication date: 1997-05
Price: £9.99
Review Thriller Playhouse: The Thrilling Adventures of Norman Conquest Vol 3 (BBC Radio Drama) / Mr Punch Audio Books:
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Beethoven: The Beloved Immortal (Audio Theatre Drama), The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare), Shakespeare Stories: Merchant of Venice, King Lear (BBC Radio Shakespeare), The Moonstone (Audio Theatre Mystery), Romeo and Juliet: Starring Dame Flora Robson & Cast, The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Complete & Unabridged, Titus Andronicus: Unabridged (Complete Works), As You Like It: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Helena Bonham-Carter, David Morrisey & Gerard Murphy (BBC Radio Collection), Shakespeare's Lovers: Selected & Performed by Estelle Kohler & Bill Homewood (Classic Drama), King Lear (Arkangel), The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: Henry VI Part 2 (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare), Much Ado About Nothing: Performed by Saskia Reeves & Cast (Arkangel), The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: Henry IV Part 2 (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare), King Richard II: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Sam West & Joss Ackland (BBC Radio Collection), King Henry V (Classic Drama), Pygmalion: Performed by Sir Michael Redgrave & Cast, The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare), King Richard III Audio cassette (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio), Thriller Playhouse: The Thrilling Adventures of Norman Conquest Vol 3 (BBC Radio Drama) |
