William Shakespeare Tragedies: Othello; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Macbeth; King Lear

William Shakespeare

Dec 2020 · Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing · Narrated by Mark Bowen and David Miles

About this audiobook

Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because they are based on real figures throughout the History of England, they were classified as "histories" in the First Folio. The Roman tragedies—Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus—are also based on historical figures, but because their source stories were foreign and ancient they are almost always classified as tragedies rather than histories. Shakespeare's romances (tragicomic plays) were written late in his career and published originally as either tragedy or comedy. They share some elements of tragedy featuring a high status central character but end happily like Shakespearean comedies. Several hundred years after Shakespeare's death, scholar F.S. Boas also coined a fifth category, the "problem play," for plays that do not fit neatly into a single classification because of their subject matter, setting, or ending. The classifications of certain Shakespeare plays are still debated among scholars.

Our collection includes the following of Shakespeare's tragedy: Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear.

Ratings and reviews

The narrators are decent, despite minor misreadings & errors, particularly in Romeo and Juliet. However, the worse thing about this audiobook is the Volume; it's extremely loud, when Characters speak aloud... but it's annoyingly soft, when Characters whisper or speak aside to one another. Hence, this audiobook is both fair and foul. It can't be enjoyed on its own. It has to be enjoyed by listening to it while reading along with Shakespeare's written words.

The narration is quite good. The reason for 3 stars is because there is a very obvious error in that Othello (and all its scenes) are not included in the table of contest. Rather, it is in part listed under "cover" and in part listed under "copyright." This makes navigation quite difficult.

I like reading books but the Shakespeare tragedies make my mind get eased and challenged by the way how we live today compared with the ancient times