Audio: Hamlet, read by Frank Muller

Hamlet 

Read by Frank Muller
Recorded Books (1990), MP3, from 4 CD's (4 hours), 64 tracks, 80 kbps

In this unusual recording, the talented actor Frank Muller reads Shakespeare's complete work with all stage directions, in the tradition of actors/managers/authors auditioning plays for their companies. Muller's interpretation allows us to listen directly to the author's voice, without extraneous distractions. He brings to life the story of Hamlet, the complex tragic hero bent on avenging his father's murder yet racked by uncertainty brought on by the strength and eloquence of his own conscience.

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Audio: From Shakespeare with Love - Sonnets

From Shakespeare with Love
Audio

William Shakespeare’s ‘sugared sonnets’ circulated privately amongst his friends and colleagues for many years, but the public had to wait until their publication in 1609 to enjoy these masterpieces on every aspect of love. Whether it’s fidelity, obsession, jealousy or the love of friends, Shakespeare seems to know about it all. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of their publication, a rich variety of have been brought together to show the many different ways in which these sonnets can be interpreted.

The story: only days after finishing his widely-praised production of "Hamlet in the West End", David Tennant came into the Naxos AudioBooks studio to record some of Shakespeare's finest sonnets, including "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?". He joined a strong cast of readers presenting some 70 sonnets in fresh performances to mark the 400th anniversary of the first publication of "The Sonnets" in 1609.


37MB, 96kbps, MP3
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Audiobook: The Shakespeare Secret (Interred with Their Bones) -Mystery/Thriller

Jennifer Lee Carrell - The Shakespeare Secret
aka Interred with Their Bones
2007 - Unabridged - mp3 - 128 kbps

Jennifer Lee Carrell, an English literature scholar, has taken a Da Vinci Code approach to Shakespeare: what if Shakespeare wrote another, undiscovered play, whose plot contained political secrets that are key parts of British history? The resulting novel, Interred with Their Bones, is a fast-paced but literate thriller featuring a Shakespeare scholar heroine who races across the globe following clues and trying to find the secret manuscript she suspects exists.

http://rapidshare.com/files/444891842/SHK-ShakespeareSecret.rar

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Audiobook: The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare

The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare

Written by Lilian Jackson Braun
Narrated by George Guidall

Summary (From the publisher):

There's something rotten in the small town of Pickax--at least to the sensitive noses of the newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but Koko's snooping into an unusual edition of Shakespeare may prove CATastrophic... because somewhere in Pickax a lady loves not wisely but too well, a widow is scandalously merry, and a stranger has a lean and hungry look. The stage is set for Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum, and the second act of murder most meow....

http://hotfile.com/dl/24134935/a13ff24/07_-_The_Cat_Who_Knew_Shakespeare.part1.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/24135061/2265e16/07_-_The_Cat_Who_Knew_Shakespeare.part2.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/24134979/363e57b/07_-_The_Cat_Who_Knew_Shakespeare.part3.rar.html

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Audio: The Reduced Shakespeare Company Radio Show - 3 Volumes

The Reduced Shakespeare Company Radio Show

The RSC Radio Show was a 6 part (half hour each) radio show commissioned and aired by the BBC in England.

Volume 1: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet
Volume 2: The Histories and The Tragedies
Volume 3: The Comedies and Shakespeare's Little Known Trip to America

Synopsis:

The Reduced Shakespeare Company was born in 1981 when three young men who misspent their youth watching cartoons began performing half-hour versions of "Hamlet" in the streets of San Francisco. In a style that equals parts Marx Brothers and Three Stooges, the trio delivers (in their abridged entirety) "Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Histories, The Tragedies, The Comedies" and a special bonus, "Shakespeare's Little Known Trip to America".

Review:

Did Romeo and Juliet have premarital sex? Did Hamlet have an edible complex (as documented by numerous food references in the play)? The Reduced Shakespeare Company asks this and more. This tape, originally produced for the BBC, will find a devoted audience among PDQ Bach fans. Despite all the bells and whistles, three American actors have an uncanny knack for picking out the crucial words in each play. Favourite Shakespeare, partially reliant on a poll conducted by Classic FM magazine, is extremely well abridged. The editors contend that the best way to understand Shakespeare is through his people. Beginning with the seven ages of man, these tapes do the delicate job of uniting the bard's men and women into one tragicomic whole. Six actors and actresses read from the plays, while interspersed sonnets offer more personal views of the writer's thoughts and theories. These are well narrated, with extremely cogent commentary by John Brunning. Neither of these tapes should be allowed near an academic library, but both will hopefully find homes in public, if antipodal, audio collections. -Rochelle Ratner, formerly with "Soho Weekly News," New York

All 3 volumes complete in 1 rar file:
http://rapidshare.com/files/126600108/ReducedShakesRadio.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/126607861/ReducedShakesRadio.part2.rar

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Audiobook: Sheila Hancock - The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw

The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw
Sheila Hancock

In this unique double biography, Sheila Hancock chronicles her life and the life of her husband John Thaw, one of the finest actors of his generation, who was beloved as Inspector Morse in the long-running TV series and who later starred later in life in A Year in Provence. The Two of Us is an utterly compelling portrait of their lives-personal and professional, together and apart-against the rich backdrop of the film and theater worlds of the late twentieth century.

When John Thaw arrived at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on scholarship, he felt like an outsider. In fact, his timing was perfect: it was the sixties and the arena of television was just opening up. Fame came quickly, but it was John's role as Morse that made him an icon around the world. In 1974 John married Sheila Hancock, with whom he shared a working-class background and a RADA education. Sheila was already a television star herself and went on to become the first female artistic director at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Theirs was a sometimes turbulent, always passionate relationship, and Sheila describes their lives together, weathering overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink and cancer, with honesty and piercing intelligence.

The Two of Us is a remarkable book-a biography of a born actor and a tender, often heartbreaking memoir of a marriage. Full of insight and vivid memories, it evokes two lives lived to the utmost.

MP3
56 kbps
Approx. 250MB

http://rapidshare.com/files/293560964/SheliaAndJohn1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/293593153/SheliaAndJohn2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/293605560/SheliaAndJohn3.rar

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Audiobook: The Book of Air and Shadows By Michael Gruber

The Book of Air and Shadows
Michael Gruber

Starred Review- In this ingenious literary thriller from Gruber (The Witch's Boy), the lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the letters of Richard Bracegirdle, a 16th-century English spy and soldier. Jake Mishkin, a Manhattan intellectual property attorney and a bit of a rake, goes on the run from Russian gangsters. Albert Crosetti, an aspiring filmmaker working for an antiquarian bookstore, finds that life is more exciting than movies—perhaps too exciting. Together, Mishkin and Crosetti travel to England in search of a previously unknown Shakespeare manuscript mentioned by Bracegirdle. Though the pace sometimes slows to allow Mishkin, Crosetti and Bracegirdle to divulge interesting aspects of their personal lives, these digressions only make the story more engaging. The suspense created around the double-crosses and triple-crosses works because of the close connection readers forge with Crosetti in particular. The mysterious murder of a Shakespearean scholar, shootouts in the streets of Queens and an unlikely romance all combine to make for a gripping, satisfying read.

Disc 1:

http://rapidshare.com/files/42813238/TheBookofAirandShadowsPart1_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/42815367/TheBookofAirandShadowsPart1_.part2.rar

Disc 2:
http://rapidshare.com/files/42822451/TheBookofAirandShadowsPart2_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/42825643/TheBookofAirandShadowsPart2_.part2.rar

Disc 3:
http://rapidshare.com/files/42833973/TheBookofAirandShadowsPart3_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/42837384/TheBookofAirandShadowsPart3_.part2.rar

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Audio Book: Shakespeare: The World as a Stage - Bill Bryson

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
by Bill Bryson

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.

Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed.

Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

http://rapidshare.com/files/82643056/Bryson__Bill_-_Shakespeare_-_The_World_as_Stage.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/82647280/Bryson__Bill_-_Shakespeare_-_The_World_as_Stage.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/82654402/Bryson__Bill_-_Shakespeare_-_The_World_as_Stage.part3.rar
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Audio: Shakespeare - Othello Full Cast (unabridged)

Shakespeare - Othello Full Cast

Naxos AudioBooks' top-drawer Classic Drama Series blissfully continues with this exquisite rendition of Othello starring Hugh Quarshie, Anton Lesser, Emma Fielding, and a full cast of professional English actors with extensive credits in the Royal National Theatre, BBC Radio Drama Company, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Shakespeare's most domestic tragedy is an exceedingly complex journey through jealousy, self-doubt, inadequacies, and societal acceptance. Passed over for military promotion, Iago, perhaps Shakespeare's most nefarious character, manipulates Othello's downfall, culminating in the murder of his beloved wife, Desdemona, and Othello's subsequent suicide. Under David Timson's stewardship as director, the story is beautifully and simply told, embellished only with intermittent brassy flourishes of classical music and a dramatic echo effect and throbbing heart beat to underscore Othello's chaotic descent and rage. While the entire cast is excellent, the trio of Quarshie (Othello), Lesser (Iago), and Fielding (Desdemona) are outstanding. An outline of each individual cassette, complete synopsis, full notes regarding the text, and cast biographies are included in a compact 24-page supplemental booklet.

3CD’s and Pamphlet
126MB - 96kbps

http://rapidshare.com/files/51965985/Shakoth.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/51966737/Shakoth.part2.rar

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GBEAY4OE

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