Author of Audiobooks - William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken...
The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, first published in 1634. Set in ancient Greece during a war between Athens and Thebes, the narrative follows the title characters, Palamon and...
Fidele - William Shakespeare
Fidele - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Fidele by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 18th, 2010....
Measure for Measure (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Drama
Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare's more enigmatic works. As one of the so-called "problem plays," it mixes a dark plot with light overtones, without resolving the tensions inherent in either. Its central conflict is spurred on when...
The Tragedy of Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Macbeth - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he himself will become king. Fired by...
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4) - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized...
Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now, real beauty is inside. This was...
The Taming of the Shrew (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
When local drunkard Christopher Sly walks into a tavern, the last thing he expects is a complex trick where, to the amusement of many others, he is tricked into believing that he's a nobleman! And so begins the Taming of the Shrew, one of...
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Hidden and mistaken identities, requited and unrequited loves, pranks and jokes abound in this romantic comedy. (Summary by Karen Savage) Cast: Orsino, Duke of Illyria - Joshua B. Christensen Sebastian - Madame Tusk Antonio, a Sea Captain, friend to...
Henry V - William Shakespeare
Henry V - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
After the turmoil and uncertainty of Henry IV a new era appears to dawn for England with the accession of the eponymous Henry V. In this sunny pageant Chorus guides us along Henry's glittering carpet ride of success as the new king completes his...
Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare
Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Where the Bee Sucks by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 8, 2012. Where the Bee Sucks is a song performed by Ariel, an airy spirit, in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The...
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest. Focusing on the aging sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero, we are transported to a remote island where magic and strange music...
Othello - William Shakespeare
Othello - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married couple fall prey to the machinations of Iago,...
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love...
The Passionate Pilgrim - William Shakespeare
The Passionate Pilgrim - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first edition survives only in a single fragmentary copy; its date cannot be fixed with certainty since its title page is missing, though...
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath. Probably written in 1599 and among the first of Shakespeare's plays to...
Romeo and Juliet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose "untimely deaths" ultimately unite their feuding households. The play has been highly praised by literary critics for its language and dramatic...
The Tragedy of King Lear (version 3) - William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Lear (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Known for its heartrending emotion and shocking violence, The Tragedy of King Lear is seen as one of Shakespeare's towering masterpieces. It tells the tale of the ageing King Lear, a British monarch who disposes of his vast kingdom by giving...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Short Stories
LibriVox readers present the sixth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in...
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a man who seemed to know everything...
Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare
Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the philosopher of the same name, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works....
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics. Much Ado About Nothing chronicles two pairs of...
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably written over a period of...
The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare
The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquin, the king of Rome,...
Richard III - William Shakespeare
Richard III - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Richard III is an early history play probably written and performed around 1592-93. It is the culmination of Shakespeare's earlier three plays about Henry VI, and chronicles the bloody career of Richard, Duke of Gloucester. As the play opens, the...
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural...
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Shakespeare was passionately interested in the history of Rome, as is evident from plays like Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. His tragedy Coriolanus was probably written around 1605-07, and dramatizes the rise and fall of...
King Lear (version 2) - William Shakespeare
King Lear (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
The Tragedy of King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The...
Hamlet (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Hamlet (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Poetry
William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres - tragedy, comedy, romance, &c - that there is always at least one monologue...
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 15th, 2006....
Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A LibriVox Weekly Poetry tribute to William Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in April 2016. Two of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, have completely contradict each-other and offer differing...
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the range of Prospero's powers. Will he seek revenge, or reconcilement?...
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Generally considered one of Shakespeare's problem plays, Measure for Measure examines the ideas of sin and justice. Duke Vincentio turns Vienna's rule over to the corrupt Angelo, who sentences Claudio to death for having impregnated a woman before...
Twelfth Night (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated from each other by a shipwreck. Viola, believing her brother dead, disguises herself as a...
Henry VI, Part 1 - William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
Henry VI, Part 1 or The First Part of Henry the Sixth (often written as 1 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas 2 Henry VI deals...
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Described as a "problem play" Measure for Measure is only as much a problem as life itself is- that is, are there any easy answers to questions aplenty? For example: when "mortality and mercy" live in one person's mouth, can justice be said to exist...
Henry VIII - William Shakespeare
Henry VIII - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the giant monarch storms through his midlife crisis, disposing of the faithful Katharine of Aragon and starting a...
The Reign of King Edward the Third - William Shakespeare
The Reign of King Edward the Third - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least partly written by William Shakespeare, a view that Shakespeare scholars have increasingly endorsed. The rest...
Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 002 - William Shakespeare
Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 002 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
This is the second LibriVox collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for this collection is "Women's Worlds," as the excerpts are all scenes between female characters. (Summary by...