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• Shakespeare plays, poems, sonnets and speeches on high quality downloadable audiobook files!
  Shakespeare plays, poems, sonnets and speeches on high quality downloadable audiobook files. These audiobooks are ideal for students, actors, theatre goers and all lovers of Shakespeare and English literature ...
  
  
  • Life of Shakespeare, A
    The plays of William Shakespeare, and his famous lines, are part of the national consciousness. There may be few solid facts about Shakespeare the man, and yet not only do we want to know all about...
    
    
  • All's Well That Ends Well
    Sian Phillips, Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes star in Shakespeare's comedy of men behaving badly and women doing it for themselves. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...
    
    
  • As You Like It
    Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind with David Morrissey as Orlando and Natasha Little as Celia in Shakespeare's festive comedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...
    
    
  • As You Like It
    A quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown.
    
    
  • Antony & Cleopatra
    Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's towering tale of great love, political intrigue and tragedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923,...
    
    
  • Coriolanus
    Samuel West and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's great tragedy of power and pride.
    
    
  • Cymbeline
    This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled...
    
    
  • Hamlet
    Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham and Juliet Stevenson star in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since I...
    
    
  • Hamlet
    The first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies.
    
    
  • Hamlet
    Shakespeare's classic as dramatized by renowned vocal actor David I. Davies
    
    
  • Henry IV - Part One
    Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and Prince Hal in Shakespeare's stirring history.
    
    
  • Henry IV - Part Two
    Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son, Hal, in this powerful production, which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales...
    
    
  • Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's most popular and polished works.
    
    
  • King Lear
    Shakespeare's bitter tragedy of loyalty, power and politics.
    
    
  • King Lear
    The story of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns the value of self-knowledge.
    
    
  • King Richard III
    Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare's strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks...
    
    
  • Macbeth
    Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's drama of greed and destiny.
    
    
  • Macbeth
    "...All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death." — Macbeth Macbeth is among the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies, a dark but fascinating glimpse into the...
    
    
  • Macbeth
    By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601),...
    
    
  • Merchant of Venice, The
    Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
    
    
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A
    Sylvestra Le Touzel, Sam West and David Threlfall star in Shakespeare's delightful comic fantasy.
    
    
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A
    "The course of true love never did run smooth" —Lysander A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's best early works, an airy, romantic romp in the woods among bumbling rustics,...
    
    
  • Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare's plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere...
    
    
  • Much Ado About Nothing
    David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare's merry comedy of wit, words and romance.
    
    
  • Much Ado About Nothing
    A full-cast performance of one of the greatest verbal sparring matches in all of literature.
    
    
  • Othello
    The second in Shakespeare's greate sequence of four tragedies.
    
    
  • Richard II
    Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when...
    
    
  • Romeo & Juliet
    Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly...
    
    
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Shakespeare's play is filled with wit, tenderness, dramatic variety and poetic beauty.
    
    
  • Tempest, The
    Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.
    
    
  • Tempest, The
    "Our revels now are ended... this rough magic I here abjure..." In Shakespeare hinting at the end of his own magnificent career in these and others lines spoken by the great magician,...
    
    
  • Tempest, The
    Ian McKellen, as Prospero, heads a strong cast in Shakespeare's last great play. The wronged Duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice...
    
    
  • Twelfth Night
    Twelfth Night, nowadays one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most-admired comedies, was not always so regarded: Samuel Pepys saw the play three times in the 1660s and judged it 'silly'. Modem...
    
    
  • Winter's Tale, The
    The Winter's Tale was one of the very last plays Shakespeare wrote, a moving romance whose themes are sin, forgiveness, death, rebirth, and the power of Time and Nature to heal all wounds. Based on...
    
    
  • Sonnets, The
    As read by the legendary Sir John Gielgud-- perhaps the greatest interpreter of the Bard we shall ever know-- the sonnets in this selection come alive...
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets
    All 154 of the Shakespeare's sonnets are beautifully read.
    
    
  • Sonnets, The
    Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of May', or 'remembrance of things past',or 'the marriage of true minds'. For centuries...
    
    
  • All The World's A Stage: Shakespeare's Speeches
    An anthology of Shakespearian speeches performed by the world's leading actors.
    
    
  • Great Speeches and Soliloquies
    To be or not to be... Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... O for a Muse of Fire... The quality of mercy is not strained... This sceptred isle... Once more unto the breach dear...
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Speeches: Hamlet - Act III, Scene I
    'To be or not to be - that is the question…'
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Speeches: Henry V - Act IV, Scene III
    Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Speeches: King Lear - Act II, Scene IV
    Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Speeches: Macbeth - Act I, Scene VII
    From the BBC Sound Archives, one of Shakespeare's most famous and memorable speeches, with Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, bringing these ominous words vividly to life.
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Speeches: Macbeth - Act II, Scene II
    With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life.
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Speeches: The Merchant Of Venice - Act IV, Scene I
    In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Speeches: Richard III - Act I, Scene I
    Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.
    
    
  • Shakespeare's Speeches: Romeo and Juliet - Act I, Scene III
    This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
    
    
  • Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings
    In this remarkable anthology of historical recordings are many of the great artists of the past. Early cylinder recordings of Sir Henry Irving preserve the voice and character of the greatest actor...
    
    
  • Great Moments in History: "Shakespeare at the Globe"
    The Bard gets a jolly lesson in ye olde show biz.
    
    
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