Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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Hamlet - William Shakespeare Audiobook - Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham and Juliet Stevenson star in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times. Shakespeare is one of the big writers in the English culture. You will enjoy listening to this great literature classic:
Hamlet - Synopsis
The play is about the young Prince Hamlet whose father, the King of Denmark, has recently died. His uncle, Claudius, takes over the throne and marries, Gertrude, the widow. Hamlet is very unhappy about Claudius' action.
A ghost, apparently the deceased king, appears and tells Hamlet that Claudius had actually murdered the king, and asks Hamlet to avenge this death. Hamlet plots to confirm Claudius’s guilt by feigning madness.
Hamlet's plan to uncover Claudius’s guilt is to stage a play reenacting the murder. Claudius interrupts the play midway through and leaves the room. After some hesitation, he thinks to have Claudius in front of him behind a curtain and stabs the body, only to find that he had stabbed the wrong man: Polonius.
Claudius deports Hamlet to England, but the ship is held up and he return to Denmark.
The son of Polonius (Laertes) returns from France enraged. Claudius, realizing in Laertes an opportunity to get rid of Hamlet, sets up a fencing match between the two. The fight is a setup; Laertes’ blade is poisoned, as is the wine in a goblet from which Hamlet will drink.
During the bout, Gertrude (Hamlet's mother) drinks from the poisoned goblet and dies. Laertes succeeds in cutting Hamlet, then is cut by his own blade. With his dying breath, he reveals the king’s plot to kill Hamlet. Hamlet manages to kill Claudius before he too succumbs to the fatal poison.
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Author : William Shakespeare
Narrator : Full Cast Performance
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 3 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Shakespeare
Our Price : $17.99
Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham and Juliet Stevenson star in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times.
BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since I 923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.
Those decades of experience come to fruition in this production.The intimacy of radio gives full rein to the power of Shakespeare's language, taking the listener into the very centre of Hamlet's emotional and moral turmoil.
The play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre, and the accompanying booklet includes a scene-by-scene synopsis, full character analysis, brief biographies of the leading actors and of Shakespeare himself, as well as an essay from the producer on their interpretation of the play.
Revitalised, original and comprehensive - this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.
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