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Tales from Shakespeare

By: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Nigel Davenport, Andrew Sachs, Juliet Stevenson
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Summary

Discover Shakespeare’s best-loved plays.

A perfect introduction for all ages to the breadth and beauty of Shakespeare's work, Tales from Shakespearehas become a classic work in its own right. The tales bring vividly alive the power of Hamlet and Macbeth, the fun of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the drama of The Tempest. Blending detailed narrative with original dialogue and poetic language, they fully convey the wit, wisdom, and imagination of Shakespeare's magnificent plays.
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Marvellous reading

Could be helped by labelling the chapters with the titles of the plays instead of numbers 1-8, to navigate to King Lear or the Tempest or whatever. This comment of course holds true for all Audible chapters - hopeless lack of adequate detail.

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A good listen

I thought that the narrator was excellent and the shortened versiobx of the plays were entertaining

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