William Shakespeare
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"Wie es euch gefällt" wurde im September 2006 auf Platz 4 der hr2-Hörbuchbestenliste gewählt!:
"Katharina Thalbach trägt den Text mit allen Regieanweisungen so temperamentvoll und emphatisch vor, dass man meint, das Stück vor sich zu sehen."
Rosalind schwärmt für Orlando, Celia vergöttert Rosalind, Silvius wirbt um Phoebe, Phoebe hat sich in die als Mann verkleidete Rosalind verliebt, und Orlando brennt vor Liebe für Rosalind. Sie alle sind...
22) Macbeth
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The epic tale of Macbeth retold in graphic-novel format. Macbeth and Banquo are Scottish generals returning home from a victorious war campaign. Their journey is interrupted when three strange witches come upon them and predict their futures. They claim that Macbeth will one day become King of Scotland! Macbeth is stirred by the prophesy. With the help of his scheming wife, he sets into motion a sinister plan that will paint bloody strokes across...
23) Was ihr wollt
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"Was ihr wollt", Teil 4 der Shakespeare/Brasch-Reihe, ist eine der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Komödien des großen Dramatikers. Ein burleskes Stück mit derben Späßen, Verwechslungen und Liebes-Wirren, dem jedoch auch eine seltsame Melancholie innewohnt. Ein vielschichtiges Werk mit zahlreichen unerwarteten Wendungen, an dessen Anfang ein Schiffsunglück vor der Küste Illyriens steht und das am Ende dann doch noch zwei glückliche Liebespaar...
24) Romeo y Julieta
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FonoLibro está orgulloso en presentar el audiolibro en español una de las más famosas y primeras historias de amor, Romeo y Julieta escrita por William Shakespeare. Este audiolibro magníficamente dramatizado es una manera maravillosa de experimentar y escuchar a Shakespeare a todo volumen. Con música asombrosa, y el efecto de sonido musical que reviven la hermosa historia de amor de Romeo y Julieta.
Romeo y Julieta es un cuento sencillo y dramático...
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Includes a wide range of the works of Shakespeare, featuring Henry Irving; Ellen Tracy; Herbert Beerbohm Tree; John Barrymore; John Gielgud; Sybil Thorndike; Hugh Casson; Laurence Olivier; and many more. With other memorable performances from Charles Laughton; Edith Evans; Laurel & Hardy; Bransby Williams; Dylan Thomas; Sarah Bernhardt; and others.
26) Richard III
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"Richard III", Teil 5 der Shakespeare/Brasch-Edition, ist eines der frühesten historischen Stücke des großen Dramatikers und zugleich eines der blutigsten.
Der hässliche und missgebildete Richard, Herzog von Gloster, kennt nur ein Ziel: er will die Krone Englands. Hinterhältig bringt er seine Brüder um, heiratet eine der Witwen, lässt seine kleinen Neffen und jeden anderen Konkurrenten ermorden. Shakespeare schuf mit ihm einen der größten...
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The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator. As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human-behaviour encompassing the bestial and the beautiful. Gerard Logan's reading of Shakespeare's 1594 work is a stunning performance. Olivier...
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Shakespeare's lighthearted comedy of mistaken identity, tangled lovers, meddling fairies, and bumbling amateur actors set in a wood on Midsummer Night is vividly retold in this special live radio performance first broadcast on the Bard's birthday, April 23, 1994, on WBAI-FM in New York City. This enchanting reinterpretation will delight both those who know and love the works of Shakespeare and those who have yet to discover them.
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This collection of Shakespeare tales focuses on themes of revenge, opening with 'Hamlet', the greatest revenge play of all time, one of the finest examples of revenge that a young man plans for the murder of his father. This collection of Shakespeare adaptations also includes 'Macbeth', and 'The Merchant of Venice' stories, each offering unique perspective on psychology of revenge. Read in English, unabridged.
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Many of the greatest lovers, and the greatest love scenes in Western literature are to be found in Shakespeare. The fresh but impassioned Romeo and Juliet, the resilient wit of Petruchio and Kate, the ardent exchanges of Lorenzo and Jessica and the anguished tragedies of Othello and Desdemona, and Antony and Cleopatra — they all show love and courtship in its many forms. The darker side of love is here too — the spine-chilling wooing of Lady Anne...
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Shakespeare was familiar with all beautiful forms and images, with all that is sweet or majestic in the simple aspects of nature and human life, of that indestructible love, and clear waters, and soft airs and sounds, and bright skies and woodland solitudes, and moon-light bowers. The writings of Shakespeare have been justly termed the richest, the purest, the fairest, that genius uninspired ever penned. This collection of Shakespeare love tales includes:...
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Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
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There plenty of spooky action in this volume of tales. Ghosts, apparitions, entire armies of fairies and fairy queens. The volume opens with Shakespeare's timeless classic 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and continues to get more frightening with haunted castles in Leskov's 'The Ghost of the Engineers' Castle'.
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The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father's ghost, bearing terrible news: he didn't simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance - no matter how many other people must die for it. Manga Classics® proudly presents an exciting manga version of Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet in its full glory, featuring the COMPLETE,...
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Shakespeare often uses expressive language in his portrayal of jealousy. It is a 'green-eyed monster', an object that 'one might fight and conquer', 'an infection which strikes as quickly as the plague'. In this selection of Shakespeare stories jealousy plays a prominent role offering us a wonderful opportunity to learn how Shakespeare's characters are dealing with this vice. The collection includes: Othello; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth Night....
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Friendship, betrayal, wisdom, humor, epic romance, betrayal, jealousy, adventure, bravery, and murder. There's everything in those iconic Shakespeare stories. His work transcends generations and appeals endlessly to other writers. His dramatic structures are both simple and complicated, intertwined with numerous relationships, which reappear in our lives again and again. This iconic collection of Shakespeare tales includes twenty of his most prominent...
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Shakespeare instructed by delighting. His comedies and tragedies contain more actual wisdom than the whole body of English learning. He is the teacher of all good – pity, generosity, true courage, love. His bright wit is cut out into little stars. This collection of Shakespeare tales includes: The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline. These timeless stories are retold in modern English retaining all key elements of Shakespeare's original storyline,...
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Shakespeare is often referred to as the great teacher of life and for a good reason too. His tales offer worldly wisdom on tap and great abundance of it. In this collection of Shakespeare tales we offer those that perhaps more than others teach us important lessons. The collection includes: The Taming of the Shrew, Timon of Athens, and All's Well That Ends Well.
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In Shakespeare plays, the tragic and the comic often fade into each other turning into harmonious blending of these two elements. Shakespeare takes a special delight in employment of such harmonies. His tragedies never fail of having their comic interludes and his comedies often have a serious undertone. Still, the comic is not the tragic, and in this collection we offer some of the more humorous and witty tales from Shakespeare. The following Shakespeare...