William Shakespeare

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Shakespeare - Winter (Shakespeare)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from «Love's Labour's Lost». This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 27th, 2009. .

Caliban and 15 more 18 minutes

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

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...

2 hours 29 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and was inspired by classical Roman comedy and the Italian commedia dell'arte. Baptista Minola, a rich gentleman of Padua, has two daughters:...

2 hours 26 minutes

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09

Plays

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09

LibriVox readers present the ninth 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...

Raerity and 14 more 43 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08

General Fiction

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08

LibriVox readers present the eighth 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...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 44 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - Tragedy of Macbeth

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...

2 hours 11 minutes

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Plays

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William Shakespeare - Tempest

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...

1 hour 55 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 26 minutes

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Poetry

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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...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 28 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - As You Like It

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...

2 hours 23 minutes

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Comedy

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William Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream

Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey's head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left. What's going on here? It's A Midsummer Night's Dream , Shakespeare at his...

2 hours 4 minutes

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 07

Plays

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 07

LibriVox readers present the seventh 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...

Alexander Hughson and 13 more 51 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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New

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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