Shakespeare Tragedies

William Shakespeare has written eleven tragedies. We have them all availalbe as audio books, in different versions and with different Theaters and actors playing the roles of these very expressive Shakespearan characters. You can download these excellent recordings immediately, and befor you decide which version is the one for you, you are offered sound samples to listen in and make an informed decision.

• Antony and Cleopatra
  An audiobook by BBC Audiobooks Ltd with this tragedy Antony and Cleopatra can be downloaded immediately. Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's towering tale of great love, political intrigue and tragedy.
   
• Coriolanus
  Samuel West and Susannah York play Coriolanus and his mother in this excellent BBC Audio production. You may download Coriolanus from this site.
   
• Hamlet
  Hamlet, one of his most famous tragedies, is avalable in three different recordings: The BBC Audio Hamlet with Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham and Juliet Stevenson. The audiobook by Naxos with a different Hamlet recording and finally the short recording with David Ian Davies from One Voice Recording with extracts from Hamlet. You may listen to a short voice sample of each recording to make your choice.
   
• Julius Caesar
  Harper Collins offers a recording of Julius Caesar. In Julius Caesar, there are no heroes, only heroic words spoken by men of ambition, arrogance, and jealousy. Yet Julius Caesar is also one of Shakespeare's most popular and polished works.
   
• King Lear
  This Shakespeare Tragedy is also availalbel in a version by BBC Aduiobooks (Colin Redgrave stars as Lear with Geraldine James as Goneril): King Lear and in an other recording by Naxos: King Lear. You may listen to a short voice sample of each recording to make your choice.
   
• Macbeth
  Macbeth is among the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. Not astonishing that we have three different audios ready for you: BBC Audio Books: Macbeth, with an introduction by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. The version by Naxos: Macbeth and the one by Harper Collins: Macbeth In the title character and his wife and accomplice, Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare conceived as complex and eloquent a pair of villains as have ever been created in the English language.
   
• Othello
  Othello, dating from 1602-1604, is the second in Shakespeare's great sequence of these four tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth.
   
• Romeo and Juliet
  In the version of BBC Aduio Books, Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love: Romeo and Juliet. An other version availalbe as downloadable audio book is produced by Naxos: Romeo and Juliet  

Of these three, lesser known works there are no downloadable audios available at this moment:

• Timon of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
• Troilus and Cressida