As You Like It - Julius Caesar - The Merchant of Venice - The Taming of the Shrew - Richard II - Henry IV Part 1 - Henry IV Part II - The Merry Wives of Windsor Stories from Shakespeare
von:
David Timson, Juliet Stevenson, Alex Jennings, Elaine Claxton, Oliver Le Sueur, Cathy Sara, Benjamin Soames
Here are eight key plays by Shakespeare re-told for younger listeners, with extracts from the works themselves. There is romance: in As You Like It Rosalind goes into the forest of Arden to find true love - dressed as a boy! In The Taming of the Shrew, Katherina and Petruchio find love while quarrelling with each other all the time. There is drama: in The Merchant of Venice, Shylock demands a pound of flesh from the living body of Antonio. There is history: King Richard II loses his throne, Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by men who said they were his best friends; also the complex story of Henry IV - in two parts. Finally, there is comedy, with that old rogue Sir John Falstaff chasingafter the Merry Wives of Windsor!
von: Karl May, Dirk Hardegen, Detlef Tams, Marc Schülert, Mirko Thiele, Michael-Che Koch, Patrick Schmitz, Katrin Laksberg, Tim Gössler, Klaus Krückemeyer, Kai Schwind, Richard Westerhaus, Stefan Lindner, Thorsten Giese, Oliver Kube, Patrick Borle, Horst Kurth, Sven Matthias, Walter Renneisen, Sibylle Nicolai, Dirk Ohrenkneifer