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Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Paul Brennen
SANWAL
Play of the Week: Romeo and Juliet 19 Jul 2003 at 18:30 BBC World Service Two-part reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Adapted for …
Henry V
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William Shakespeare
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 sun…
Twelfth Night (version 2)
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, w…
Literary Taste: How to Form It
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Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore
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Mary Cowden Clarke
This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of c…
Shakespeare Identified
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J. Thomas Looney
That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…
The London Prodigal
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William Shakespeare
Published in 1605 with the title: "The London Prodigall. As it was plaide by the Kings Maiesties servants. By William Shakespeare, Lond…
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 1993
Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare A blast of winter sunshine as the world is turned upside-down in this magical tragi-comedy of love, mus…
The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 2 of 3
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Arthur Schopenhauer
In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiab…
Tolstoy on Shakespeare
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Leo Tolstoy
This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy. It is followed by another essay named "Shakespeare's attitude to the…
Mucedorus
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William Shakespeare
The 1610 edition says it is by Shakespeare, and the play was in a volume of Shakespeare in the library of Charles the Second. But, well, lik…
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 1972
Twelfth Night or What You Will by William Shakespeare Orsino, Duke of Illyria: William Squire Attending on the Duke:: Curio Brian Hew…
Milton's Minor Poems
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John Milton
“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium i…
Mr Hogarth's Will
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Catherine Helen Spence
Jane and Elsie Melville were raised by their kindly but eccentric uncle, Mr Hogarth who believed that women were just as good as men, and th…
Shakespeare's Sonnets
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.…
Writing Wrongly
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Thomas Corfield
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…
Sonnet 073
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William Shakespeare
To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project…
Martyn Wade Another Shakespeare
Another Shakespeare Martyn Wade's comedy is based on the real-life story of an 18th-Century forger. In order to convince his father t…
Sonnet 116
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of …
The Winter's Tale (version 2)
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William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale—one of Shakespeare's final plays—tells the story of two neighboring kings, Leontes of Sicilia and Polixenes of Bohemia. Fr…