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This Is Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Emma Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing - not resolving - the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality
A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant.
In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith - an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer - takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page." (Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies)
"If I were asked to recommend one guide for readers keen on discovering what's at stake in Shakespeare's plays, This Is Shakespeare would be it." (James Shapiro, author of The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606)
"Brilliantly illuminating.... The best introduction to Shakespeare’s plays that I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop. Emma Smith's voice is disarmingly frank, refreshingly irreverent, full of pop culture.... Her reading of the plays is dazzling, her original research totally convincing." (Alex Preston, The Observer, London)
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Thespian sleuth Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - especially in the form of women and alcohol. Estranged from his long-suffering wife, Frances, his personal life is shambolic, and as an actor, he's C-list at best. But he does have a talent for solving murders - which is just as well, because wherever he goes, someone seems to drop dead.
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Funnier than they are mysterious
- De Bookmarque en 01-30-24
De: Jeremy Front, y otros
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Shakespeare
- The World as Stage
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Bill Bryson
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.
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Too Little, Too Short
- De Charles L. Burkins en 11-30-07
De: Bill Bryson
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The Modern Scholar
- Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
- De: Professor Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Professor Harold Bloom
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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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.
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Lowest WPM Ever
- De Ronald en 11-16-11
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For the Love of Music
- A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
- De: John Mauceri
- Narrado por: John Mauceri
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience? Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.
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Divine Time with a Maestro
- De Meg en 12-18-19
De: John Mauceri
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The Year of Lear
- Shakespeare in 1606
- De: James Shapiro
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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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.
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Detailed and satisfying
- De Tad Davis en 02-24-16
De: James Shapiro
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Shakespeare
- The Biography
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 19 h y 11 m
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Only Peter Ackroyd can combine narrative and unique observation with a sharp eye for the fascinating fact. His method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare’s life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background.
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Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd
- De Four Bears en 10-16-06
De: Peter Ackroyd
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Shakespeare: The Complete Works
- Argo Classics
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Diana Rigg, y otros
- Duración: 98 h y 55 m
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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.
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Great collection marred by a few missing sections
- De J. T. Woosley en 02-27-21
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Richard III
- A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
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In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard and his fantasy of total control of self and domination of others. Not yet king at the start of the play, Richard presents himself as an enterprising villain as he successfully plans to dispose of his brother, Clarence. Richard achieves similar success in conquering the woman he chooses to marry. He carves a way to the throne through assassination and executions.
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Need
- De Amazon Customer en 10-20-17
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The Third Policeman
- De: Flann O'Brien
- Narrado por: Jim Norton
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.
Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.
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Hell is other people's bicycles.
- De Darwin8u en 03-01-15
De: Flann O'Brien
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Tyrant
- Shakespeare on Politics
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.
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Too Close for Comfort
- De C. Gross en 05-10-18
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
- De: Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea
- Narrado por: Barbara Flynn, Brendan O'Hea, Judi Dench
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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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.
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Perfect for fans of Shakespeare
- De Richard A. Nathan en 04-24-24
De: Judi Dench, y otros
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BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Eight Comedies
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Anne-Marie Duff, David Tennant, Full Cast, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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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.
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Not told entirely
- De Gabsalot en 12-11-21
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Emma
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrado por: Emma Thompson, Joanne Froggatt, Isabella Inchbald, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Austen wrote, 'I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like' and thus introduces the handsome, clever, rich - and flawed, Emma Woodhouse. Emma is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage; nothing however delights her more than matchmaking her fellow residents of Highbury. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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Background sonds RUINED this
- De Sandra Dodd en 09-09-18
De: Jane Austen, y otros
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- Harry Kelley
- 10-12-23
A pentimento approach
Challenging, entertaining, revelatory, there author first dazzled us with a dazzling review of the opus, including hundreds of ideas and thoughts that never visited my limited gray matter; then, explicitly, she invites us to do what she has been doing all along, muddle through the place as best we can to challenge, not only ourselves, but the works. It isn’t so much that she says they are living, breathing things, but that they can be read under a multitude of influences that bend and reflect their meaning in such a way that we will find ourselves and our current situation at least touched on in the texts. She is a marvelous combination of writer, professor, comic, And mentor. Should you read this book, you will find matter you have not encountered before. If it strikes you, as it did me, you will find it, intriguing and delightful.
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- Amanda L. Hughes
- 01-05-21
Excellent and accessible listen
Really nice collection of essentially stand-alone essays on many Shakespeare plays. Accessible and insightful. Geared towards an intellectually curious general audience, but refreshing for the more specialized reader as well.
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