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For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. In a series of intimate conversations with actor & director Brendan O'Hea, she guides us through Shakespeare's plays with incisive clarity, revealing the secrets of her rehearsal process and inviting us to share in her triumphs, disasters, and backstage shenanigans.

All of the Shakespeare plays within the Argo Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations.

This shattering drama of isolation and loss is one of the greatest tragedies in world literature. King Lear of Britain has three daughters: the hard-hearted Goneril and Regan, and the good and gentle Cordelia. He determines to divide his kingdom between them, giving the largest share to she who can say she loves him the best. Lear's tragic lack of judgment and self-knowledge is paralleled by the blindness of the loyal Gloucester who is persuaded to reject his virtuous son, Edgar, in favor of the villainous Edmund.

Have you ever wondered what Gregory and Sampson's conversation would sound like in modern language? What about Romeo and Juliet's balcony scene or Mercutio's 'Queen Mab" speech? For the first time the tale of two star crossed lovers in available in modern text and story form. Easy to follow storyline, humorously accurate text and in depth narration written by Shakespearean actors. Use as a study guide or just to enjoy in a new way. Great for young adults and experienced readers.

This interview with actor Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins on TV's Dark Shadows) first appeared in Filmfax #83 (February/March 2001). An expanded version was later published in Halloween Candy (2001), incorporating additional material about Frid's childhood. This Kindle ebook edition is the expanded version -- about 8,600 words. Frid discusses his childhood, his early inspirations and school days acting, his Shakespearean work, Dark Shadows, Oliver Stone's Seizure, his one-man shows, his philosophy of life, and much more. If you'd like this interview in print form, it's available in Thomas M...

A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: eight comedies with all-star casts including David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Martin Jarvis, Siân Phillips and Miriam Margolyes. The plays included in this collection are: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and All's Well That Ends Well.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a tragic world in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. This play, set in an extraordinary world, has become the quintessential story of young love. 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.

Hamlet, Shakespeare's most popular, and perhaps most puzzling play, follows the form of a "revenge tragedy", in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties. 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.

This collection of masterful reinterpretations brilliantly demystifies and breathes new life into Shakespeare's work, demonstrating the continued resonance of a playwright whose popularity remains more than 400 years after his death. Now, the passion, heartbreak, deception, reconciliation, and mortality of Shakespeare’s originals can be understood by all, without the need to cross-reference to an enjoyment-sapping study guide.

تعدُّ مسرحية "هاملت" واحدة من أهم مسرحيات الكاتب العبقري ويليام شكسبير وبذلك كانت أكثر مسرحياته تمثيلًا وإنتاجًا وطباعة.

"مكبث" مسرحية تراجيدية للكاتب الإنجليزي ويليام شكسبير عن القائد الاسكتلندي مكبث الذي يغتال ملكة دنكن ليجلس على عرش اسكتلندا مكانه. تعد مكبث أقصر تراجيديات شكسبير، ولا حبكة جانبية فيها تتعلق بأي شخصيةٍ أخرى، لكنّها عبارة عن تحليل واقعى للنفس البشريه وكيف يتحول الإنسان من شخص نبيل مخلص إلى قاتل ومجرم، وماهو الجزء الكامن على أطراف النفس البشريه وماهي الرغبة الكامنه فى الأعماق التى تدفع الإنسان لهذا التحول الرهيب . تعرض المسرحية مبلغ نيل المطامع من قلوب الرجال وسطوة شهوة السلطة عليهم؛ حيث تروي حكاية مكبث ذلك القائد الإسكتلندي الذي تنبأت بملكه ثلاث ساحرات، وتنبأت لصديقه بذرية من الملوك....

تعدُّ "عطيل" واحدة من مسرحيات شكسبير التراجيدية حيث تتألف من خمسة فصول وتدور أحداثها ما بين البندقية وقبرص لتحكي لنا قصّة الشابة الجميلة ديدمونة وهي ابنة عضو مجلس الشيوخ في البندقية، يقع عطيل الشاب المغربي في حبّ ديدمونة وتستمرِّ لقاءاتهم بالسرّ إلى أن ينتهي الأمر بهم إلى الزواج دون علم والدها أو موافقته. بعد أن يبرِّيء عطيل صفحته أمام مجلس الشيوخ ويثبت ولاءه يتمّ تعيينه قائدًا للجيش الذي سينطلق إلى مدينة قبرص فيصحب معه زوجته لتبدأ الأحداث المأساوية للقصة...

Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance.

A Classic recording of Shakespeare's well-loved comedy. Cast including renowned Shakespearean actors John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Gary Watson.

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. The poetry of Shakespeare's star crossed lovers is poignantly performed and expertly explained in this unique production: "Passion lends them power."

Henry V, which dates from 1599, is the last in Shakespeare's series of plays based on English history. It is also, of course, among the Bard's best-known and most-performed works. It's given rich new life here by a full-cast presentation that combines classic literature with classical music.

Romeo y Julieta es un cuento sencillo y dramático acerca del amor imposible entre una pareja de jóvenes descendientes de dos familias enemigas. Captura el entusiasmo juvenil y la pasión poética que caracterizan todo de los primos trabajos de William Shakespeare que hace Romeo y Julieta en la creación más sublime y romántica en la Literatura Universal.

King Henry is married to Katherine of Aragon, but he has been smitten by the charms of the queen's maid of honor, Anne Bullen, and is tempted to divorce his dignified and noble wife. Meanwhile, the lords of England resent the influence of Henry's trusted advisor, Cardinal Wolsey, who is gradually drawing power into his own hands. As Katherine and Wolsey suffer their tragic falls, new figures rise to fill their places, but they, too, will be brought low by the inexorable sweep of time and fortune.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific genius was a thing of the past. But that year, at age 42, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn - King Lear - then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.