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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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- Narrated by: full cast
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- Original Recording
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Overall
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- Arkangel Shakespeare
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity. Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia. She, however, has fallen for his servant Cesario, who is actually Viola, a woman disguised as a man, who loves Orsino: Confusion is rife. Meanwhile, Olivia's arrogant steward Malvolio is cruelly tricked by her uncle Sir Toby Belch, his friend Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and the maidservant Maria into believing his mistress loves him.
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- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Macbeth, one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, is among the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king in order to succeed to the throne. Tortured by his conscience and fearful of discovery, he becomes fatally enmeshed in a web of treachery and deceit.
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- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most audiences believe the couple’s strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello.
Written by: William Shakespeare
Publisher's Summary
Folger Shakespeare Library, The World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies
The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings A Midsummer Night's Dream to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition.
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love in unexpected ways. In the woods outside Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves into couples - but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another. The king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy. Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, in an effort to distract Titania from the custody battle. While all of this is going on, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of "Pyramus and Thisbe".
This new full-cast recording - based on the most respected edition of Shakespeare’s classic - expertly produced by the Folger Theatre, is perfect for students, teachers, and the everyday listener.
What listeners say about A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition
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- SJill
- 2020-06-01
well done!
The acting and sound effects were amazing. My 12 year old listened to this for school and we both enjoyed the acting. Since the accent is American, it made it less of a barrier to understanding the story.
Titania's acting was rather under-whelming and flat but everyone else was excellent!
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- Giovanni Panaro
- 2019-02-15
wow
the voice acting was awesome! The music was cool too. I definitely recommend this book.
7 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-05-30
Fantastic Voice Performance!!!
The voice performance of the cast was incredible and followed the play exactly. Fantastic job!
7 people found this helpful
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- John W. White
- 2020-09-03
Brings the play to life
I've listened to many readings of Shakespeare's plays. This was one of the best I have listened to.
4 people found this helpful
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- Dawn M
- 2020-07-11
Memories from college
As an English major, I was instantly enamoured by Shakespeare. A lovely afternoon spent reading a great classic!
4 people found this helpful
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- Harrison K Miller
- 2019-04-27
Performance Ruins It
The actor's performances are so bad that it feels like some sort of joke. One of the actors literally sounded like he was about to break out crying every time he spoke, no matter what he was talking about or what was happening. They were all just WAY over the top dramatic. I couldn't take them seriously.
3 people found this helpful
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- WolfShield
- 2020-05-01
Great performance. Worth the listen.
I really liked this story and the way it was performed with a full cast.
2 people found this helpful
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- T. W. Akins
- 2020-04-24
A Mid Summer Nights Dream
Was tremendous. The readers were great and very professional. A great play to listen to and see. Tks
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- ATTILIO GALIANI
- 2021-05-15
a marvellous dream. the best play ever written...
marvellous as always: the only thing that I would probably have performed differently is the scene of Tisby's death. it should be less comic. the movie version by Michael Hoffman is exemplary in this sense
1 person found this helpful
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- Brandon and Emiko
- 2020-08-01
Simply wonderful
hearing their that open the auto book is a real treat especially with theaters closed right now. the performance of the cast is spot-on to when didn't it at the time was already recommending it.
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- William
- 2019-05-21
Very bad reading
I did not enjoy this reading at all. However, to be fair, I think it was made for English HS students... Look elsewhere for a great reading.
1 person found this helpful