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Here are the stories of thirteen key Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet,
Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest,
Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, and A
Midsummer Night's Dream. David Timson presents the complex plots in a clear,
entertaining and informal style, presenting the main characters in the context
of the famous lines. The stories contain important passages from the plays
themselves, taken from the award-winning Naxos AudioBooks recordings. This is a
3 CD set which not only entertains but acts as an ideal 'starter pack' for
children going to see the plays of Shakespeare.
Disc 1
Henry V
Henry V - 01:26
Act I Scene 2: 'Your Highness lately sending into France...' - 02:31
Henry decided it was time... - 01:29
Act I Scene 3: 'He's in Arthur's bosom...' - 01:19
The first battle for Henry... - 01:58
Their courage renewed by their leader... - 01:02
Act III Scene 8: 'My Lord High Constable...' - 01:27
King Henry meanwhile... - 02:56
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 04:39
Act II Scene 1: 'Why should Titania cross her Oberon...' - 01:39
Then Oberon called his favourite fairy, Puck... - 03:22
Act I Scene 2: 'Now is all our company met...' - 02:04
Back in the fairies' wood... - 02:09
Act IV Scene 1: 'When thou wak'st...' - 00:32
Meanwhile Oberon had found his queen, Titania, asleep - 00:43
Oberon stooped over her... - 00:35
When Titania awoke... - 01:00
Act IV Scene 1: 'Come sit thee down...' - 02:06
And so when Oberon came along... - 02:10
Hamlet
Hamlet - 03:10
Act I Scene 4: 'Look my Lord it comes...' - 01:38
Hamlet followed his father's ghost... - 01:19
The wicked Claudius had indeed killed... - 02:25
Act III Scene 1: 'To be or not to be...' - 01:38
Seeing Ophelia sitting quietly... - 04:32
Act IV Scene 5: 'Where is the beauteous Queen of Denmark...' - 01:08
It was not long before... - 01:24
Hamlet had loved her... - 02:57
Act V Scene 2: 'O I die Horatio...' - 01:07
King Lear
King Lear - 01:14
Act I Scene 1: 'Goneril our eldest born speak first...' - 01:49
King Lear was very pleased with Goneril and Regan's declarations... - 03:48
Act I Scene 4: 'Hear Nature, hear...' - 00:55
And with his curse of Goneril still ringing... - 01:16
Act III Scene 2: 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!' - 02:09
Before long his servant... - 01:45
Act IV Scene 6: 'Dost thou know me...' - 02:41
Edgar, still disguised... - 00:32
Act IV Scene 6: 'Sir, do you know me?' - 02:24
And now he knew at last... - 01:47
Act V Scene 3: 'Howl, howl...' - 02:27
Disc 2
Henry V
But with the morning Henry's spirits had revived... - 01:53
And so the battle of Agincourt began - 00:35
Act IV Scene 7: 'Here comes the herald of the French...' - 01:45
And so the battle concluded... - 00:59
Act V Scene 2: 'Fair Katherine...' - 02:15
The Tempest
The Tempest - 05:07
Act I Scene 2: 'This island's mine...' - 00:53
Prospero finished his story to Miranda... - 01:59
Act I Scene 2: 'Full fathom five...' - 00:59
And so singing, Ariel led the spell-bound prince... - 01:46
Scarcely had they exchanged half a dozen sentences... - 01:10
Act III Scene 1: 'You look wearily...' - 01:41
Now other members of King Alonso's household... - 02:01
When Stephano appeared he had been drinking... - 02:37
Caliban thought these two examples... - 01:40
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night - 01:10
Orsina, the Duke of Illyria... - 02:41
Act I Scene 5: 'My Lord and master loves you...' - 01:22
Listening to Viola speaking as the boy Cesario... - 02:20
Act II Scene 4: 'Make no compare between that love...' - 01:33
So Viola went... - 02:10
Act II Scene 5: 'If this fall into thy hand...' - 02:02
When Malvolio appeared before Olivia... - 00:51
Act III Scene 4: 'Why man he's a very devil...' - 01:45
Happily for both Viola and Sir Andrew... - 04:25
Act V Scene 1: 'Do I stand there...' - 00:55
Then Viola told her brother all her adventures... - 01:39
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet - 02:06
Act I Scene 4: 'O then I see Queen Mab...' - 00:52
But nothing would stop Romeo... - 01:03
Act I Scene 5: 'What lady's that...' - 00:48
As he was saying these words... - 00:46
Act I Scene 5: 'If I profane...' - 01:29
Just then the girl's nurse... - 01:39
Act II Scene 2: 'O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou...' - 01:46
They spoke long together... - 01:57
The next morning, very early... - 02:23
Act III Scene 1: 'Courage man the hurt cannot be much...' - 01:12
So, on the very day of his wedding... - 01:13
Poor Juliet and her young husband... - 01:41
Now Juliet's father, Lord Capulet... - 01:47
Act IV Scene 3: 'What if it be poison...' - 01:53
Early in the morning... - 01:56
Act V Scene 3: 'Ah, dear Juliet why art thou...' - 01:53
So Romeo died beside his wife, Juliet - 01:51
Disc 3
The Tempest
Prospero by his enchantments... - 02:12
So Prospero made heavenly music... - 02:01
Othello
Othello - 03:20
Act I Scene 3: 'My story being done...' - 00:47
Desdemona herself came to the Senate... - 02:28
Act II Scene 1: 'O my fair warrior...' - 01:11
Iago upon arrival began to put his plan... - 01:35
Act II Scene 3: 'Two things are to be done...' - 00:18
When Cassio and Iago were alone together... - 01:14
Act III Scene 3: 'By heaven I'll know...' - 01:36
The seed of jealousy was well and truly sown - 01:11
That night, before dinner, Othello... - 02:33
Act IV Scene 1: 'How shall I murder him Iago...' - 01:30
Iago's villainy now knew no bounds... - 01:36
Act IV Scene 3: 'The poor soul sat sighing...' - 02:09
Desdemona woke with her husband's wild eyes... - 02:57
Act V Scene 2: 'Soft you...' - 02:19
Macbeth
Macbeth - 01:03
Act I Scene 3: 'So foul and fair a day...' - 02:13
Macbeth could not take his eyes... - 04:02
Act II Scene 1: 'Is this a dagger...' - 01:54
Not long afterwards, with red hands... - 00:53
The murderers heard a knocking at the castle gate... - 02:26
Act III Scene 4: 'Which of you have done this...' - 01:14
Macbeth decided he would find the witches... - 04:44
Act V Scene 1: 'Yet here's a spot...' - 02:06
Not long after this, Macbeth heard... - 01:31
All this while, the English army... - 01:27
Act V Scene 8: 'Turn hell-hound, turn...' - 02:49
King Richard III
King Richard III - 01:46
Act I Scene 1: 'Now is the winter...' - 01:50
Nothing was going to stop Richard... - 00:40
Act I Scene 4: 'Methought I had broken from the Tower...' - 01:22
And his bad dreams... - 01:43
Act I Scene 2: 'Was ever woman in this humour wooed...' - 00:44
Meanwhile Edward IV's illness... - 03:44
Act IV Scene 2: 'Thus high...:' - 01:35
The truth was that Richard... - 01:54
All the time that Richard had been planning... - 01:10
Act V Scene 3: 'Dream on thy cousins...' - 02:36
Next morning the sun was not shining... - 00:54
Act V Scene 4: 'Rescue my Lord of Norfolk...' - 01:43
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