LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanl...
Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Sha...
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 15...
Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set...
Hymnen an die Nacht ist der Titel eines Gedichtzyklus von Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg). Der Zyklus wurde zuerst 1800 in der Zeitschrift Athenäum...
Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, preceded by Ri...
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life,...
Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate bring...
Apollonius of Tyre is an ancient Greek novella that tells the story of a young prince who is forced to flee his kingdom after his father is murdered....
This book is a collection of seven audio recordings of the Witches' Brew scene from Act IV Scene I of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It features different int...
E. Nesbit's *Children's Shakespeare* presents twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays, including *Romeo and Juliet*, *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, a...
Fidele, a character from Shakespeare's play *Cymbeline*, is a young woman disguised as a boy named Fidele. She is the daughter of the banished king, P...
'Henry VI, Part 3' is a historical play by William Shakespeare that chronicles the brutal realities of the Wars of the Roses in England. The play foll...
In "Birthplace," Henry James explores the delicate balance between historical truth and manufactured myth. Mr. Gedge, a man of reason and skepticism,...
This collection presents a selection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays, translated into multiple languages. It showcases the power and universali...
Nahum Tate's "The History of King Lear" is a 17th-century adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. While retaining much of the original plot and ch...
'Where the Bee Sucks' is a short song sung by the airy spirit Ariel in William Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest'. It is a beautiful and evocative piece...
'Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 001' presents a selection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, focusing on dialogues between two characters. The co...
In Fritz Leiber's *No Great Magic*, a traveling group of Shakespearean actors embark on a series of extraordinary adventures that blur the lines betwe...
Gordon Bottomley's 'Gruach' is a verse drama that delves into the life of Lady Macbeth before her infamous role in Shakespeare's play. It reimagines h...
This play, a sequel to Shakespeare's *The Taming of the Shrew*, focuses on Petruchio's second marriage to Maria, a woman who defies traditional expect...
Rosalynde, or Euphues' Golden Legacie is a pastoral adventure novel by Thomas Lodge. It was published in 1590 and is considered one of the most popula...
