Shakespeare Criticism

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    • By: Fintan O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Fintan O'Toole
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays?

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    • Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall
    • By: Eliot A. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics.

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    • How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
    • By: Elizabeth Winkler
    • Narrated by: Eunice Wong
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies investigates the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be....

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    • Reflections on Shakespeare
    • By: Peter Brook
    • Narrated by: Michael Pennington
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Unique insights into Shakespeare, from one of the world’s most revered theatre directors. Who was the man who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? Why does Shakespeare never go out of date? How should actors approach Shakespeare’s verse....

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    • What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy
    • By: Paula Marantz Cohen
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Paula Marantz shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways....

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    • Give Me Life
    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....

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    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world....

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    • By: Bruce Coville
    • Narrated by: A. C. Fellner
    • Length: 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2019
    • Language: English
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    • When King Leontes unfairly accuses his wife of infidelity, he sets off a terrible chain of events. But this is not one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. It’s a romance, and one with a healthy dose of fancy and surprise. A story of redemption and the strength of friendship and true love....

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    • By: Margreta de Grazia
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Margreta de Grazia presents a fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry....

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    • The Strategies of Evil
    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello....

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    • By: William Shakespeare
    • Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud
    • Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-2010
    • Language: English
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    • Here are 154 poems performed by by the wonderful Sir John Gielgud in this Shakepseare collection of the Sonnets....

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    • By: David Sterling Brown
    • Narrated by: David Sterling Brown
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet, and Tamora—figures who are never quite 'white enough'—this bold and compelling work emphasizes how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and reaffirms white supremacy....

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    • A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare
    • By: Michelle Ephraim
    • Narrated by: Sharon Freedman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Green World is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Michelle Ephraim's quest to become a Shakespeare scholar and to find community and home. As she studies Shakespeare, Ephraim's world uncannily begins to mirror the story of the Jewish daughter in The Merchant of Venice.

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Phyllis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Mark Twain embarks on a delightful literary investigation, challenging the authenticity of Shakespeare's authorship...

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