William Shakespeare
99 books
Comedy
470
William Shakespeare - Taming of the Shrew (version 2)
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...
2 hours 37 minutes
Plays
432
William Shakespeare - Reign of King Edward the Third
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...
2 hours 36 minutes
Comedy
459
William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice (version 2)
Perhaps the most controversial of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice tells the tale of a man, Bassanio, who has a crazy plan to woo the heiress, Portia, with money borrowed off an old Jewish money lender,...
2 hours 35 minutes
Comedy
478
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing (version 2)
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...
2 hours 32 minutes
Poetry
482
William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)
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...
2 hours 28 minutes
