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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 02

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 02

LibriVox readers present the second collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 15 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest...

Kirsten Ferreri and 9 more 42 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01

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...

Kirsten Ferreri and 13 more 27 minutes

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - King Lear

King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom among his three daughters in proportion...

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William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (version 2)

Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two «star-crossed lovers» from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and...

Ancilla 3 hours 3 minutes

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Drama

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William Shakespeare - King Henry IV, Part 1

King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II . As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingbroke) and Henry...

2 hours 50 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116

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.

Alan Davis Drake and 16 more 20 minutes

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - Richard II

Richard II by William Shakespeare is the first of eight plays that portray a historically-informed version of the War of the Roses — beginning in about 1365 and ending with Richard III's death in 1485. Edited by...

3 hours 2 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

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 —...

2 hours 24 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Hamlet

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...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 53 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It concerns the fate of two very young lovers who would do anything to be...

Becky Miller 3 hours 2 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 10 more 2 hours 44 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 073

To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 23rd, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Alys AtteWater and 9 more 12 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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