Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies. In writing this extraordinary play, Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly 2,000 years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity. This production features the voice of Anton Lesser as Hamlet along with a full cast.

The tragedy of King Lear receives an outstanding performance in an all-star cast led by Britain’s senior classical actor, Paul Scofield. He is joined by Alec McCowen as Gloucester, Kenneth Branagh as The Fool, Harriet Walter as Gonerill, Sara Kestelman as Regan and Emilia Fox as Cordelia. This is the ninth recording of Shakespeare plays undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, and is directed by John Tydeman. It was released to mark the 80th birthday of Paul Scofield in January 2002.

Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: Should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia's estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket.

読み聞かせでもなく、サウンドドラマでもない。オーディオブックならではの圧倒的な表現力と、必要最小限の演出。誰もが知っている"はず"のシェイクスピア作品をダイジェストにして続々お届けします。 覇権争う二名家が、ところは花のヴェローナにて、積もる恨みもまたも新たに、血で血を洗う内輪もめ。憎む両家の恋人同士、幸も薄くその身を滅ぼす。やがて悲しき恋の果て、その死をもって恨みを葬る。死の影まとう恋の道行き、両家の恨みのつのるさま、子らが果てねば解けはせぬ。今より話が小一時間、みなさま耳をしばし拝借、至らぬところはご容赦あれ。 ※本商品はラム姉弟『シェイクスピア物語』をもとに、シェイクスピアの原典にある詩を加え、再編集しています。 ・Charles and Mary Lamb's TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET

Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a specter from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge. The young prince is driven to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation he finds himself in and to do his duty. Many others, including Hamlet's beloved, the innocent Ophelia, are swept up in his tragedy.

日常会話やメディアで聖書に由来する表現が頻繁に使われたり、大統領が聖書の言葉を引用したりするなど、英語と英語圏の文化を深く理解する上で聖書の知識は不可欠です。英語力も教養も身に付く、含蓄に富んだ聖書の名ストーリー18編をやさしい英語でお届けします。

■世界のベストセラー「聖書」の有名な物語18編をダイジェストで！
「アダムとエバ」「バベルの塔」「イエスの誕生」など、聖書の有名な話18編をお届けします。麗しい話や教えられる話、残酷な話など、驚きと発見に満ちた多彩な内容をお楽しみいただけます。

■物語由来の慣用表現が身に付く！
物語から生まれた英語表現が実際にどのような場面で使われるかを「聖書の表現」のコーナーで解説しています。聖書にちなんだ言い回しと背景のエピソードをあわせて知ることで、英語をより深く理解できるようになります。

■やさしい英語がベース
キリスト教英語の専門家、石黒マリーローズ先生の書き下ろしによる、やさしい聖書物語です。初中級レベルの英単語（※）をベースにしています。※アルクの「標準語彙水準12000」（SVL[Standard Vocabulary...

聖書がわかれば、世界がわかる！ イエスはなぜユダヤ教指導者と対立したのか？ ユダはなぜイエスを売ったのか？ イエスは本当に復活したのか？イエスをめぐる謎から、キリスト教が世界宗教に なるまで、日本人が知っているようで、実はよく知らない「聖書世界」の出来事や キリスト教の成立過程を、的確な比喩と解説で明快・痛快・爽快に解き明かす。 目次 序 章 旧約聖書の世界 第07問 ユダヤ教が一神教になったのはなぜ？ 第13問 イスラエル王国はなぜ南北に分裂したのか？ 第15問 ユダヤ人とユダヤ教の関係は？ 第1章 イエスという男 第20問 イエスの時代のユダヤはどうなっていたのか？ 第28問 イエスの考え方の基本は何？ 第30問 ずばり、イエスってどういう人？ 第2章 イエスとその弟子たち 第39問 イエスの周りに人が集まってきたのはなぜ？ 第45問 ユダは本当にイエスを売ったのか？ 第46問 イエスの逮捕から処刑までの間、弟子たちはどうしていたのか？ 第3章 天才パウロの登場 第54問 パウロが回心した本当の理由は？ 第60問 エルサレム使徒会議って何？ 第69問 なぜ十字架信仰が広まったのか？ 第4章 新約聖書の成立 第72問 「新約聖書」はいつ頃成立したのか？ 第79問 「ローマ人の手紙」が全聖書の扉とされるのはなぜ？ 第82問...

Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian senator. But Iago, Othello's malignant ensign, is determined to destroy their happiness. Cunningly bending Othello to his own purposes, Iago persuades the Moor that Desdemona is unfaithful to him. Tormented in a hell of jealousy, Othello moves inexorably toward the destruction of his innocent wife and himself.

In the world's most celebrated and lyrical love story, the sublime devotion of two young lovers transcends their earthly fate. The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet) fall in love, they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune. Despite the passion and innocence of their love, they fall victim to the enmity between their families, and their story ends in tragedy.

The beautiful young Dorian Gray has his portrait painted by society artist Basil Hallward. Admired by all, the dazzling, wealthy, handsome young man has everything anyone could wish for, or so it appears. Oscar Wilde's novel is a masterly study of moral corruption, a tour-de-force of suspense and surprise.

朗読むすめの朗読Bookシリーズが『源氏物語』にチャレンジ！推定再生時間70時間,推定収録時間500時間チャレンジします。谷崎潤一郎訳の『潤一郎訳 源氏物語』を次々発売！

土佐日記・原文朗読

This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text and starring Warren Mitchell, Michael Maloney, and Sarah Woodward.

By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.

In A Kid from Marlboro Road, past and present intermingle as family stories are told and retold. The narrative careens between the prior generation’s colorful sojourns in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen and the softer world of Gibson, the town on Long Island where they live now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont racetrack, and in Montauk. Edward Burns’s buoyant first novel is a bildungsroman, yet out of one boy’s story a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American tale, raucous and joyous.

Shakespeare's Othello is one of his finest and most famous tragedies. This highly acclaimed performance, which ran between November 2007 and February 2008 at the Donmar Warehouse in London, features Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Moor Othello, Ewan McGregor as the scheming Iago, and Kelly Reilly as the gentle Desdemona. This recording features music written specifically for the stage production which enjoyed huge success - each performance was a sell-out.

8年連続、公務員1次試験合格率100％（*）の実績を持つ、シグマ・ライセンス・スクール浜松が提供する、らくらく聞くだけ勉強法、暗記「四字熟語300」篇です！
公務員試験は出題範囲が広く、暗記教科はできるだけ効果的に覚えたいと思ったことはありませんか？これなら繰り返し聞き流すだけで、自然と覚えることができます！
らくらく3つのメリット 1.耳からの記憶力が高い！ 2.繰り返し勉強できる！ 3...

This shattering drama of isolation and loss is one of the greatest tragedies in world literature. King Lear of Britain has three daughters: the hard-hearted Goneril and Regan, and the good and gentle Cordelia. He determines to divide his kingdom between them, giving the largest share to she who can say she loves him the best. Lear's tragic lack of judgment and self-knowledge is paralleled by the blindness of the loyal Gloucester who is persuaded to reject his virtuous son, Edgar, in favor of the villainous Edmund.

A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is shattered when Carol is forced to choose between her child and her lover.

Here are 22 charming Japanese Fairy Tales, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, including "My Lord Bag of Rice", "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", "The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad", "The Farmer and the Badger", "The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage", "The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy", "The Story of Princess Hase", "The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die", "The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moonchild", "The Mirror of Matsuyama", and more.

大好評の既刊本『キクタンフランス語』シリーズの流れを受け、フランス語の会話力の養成に狙いを定めた『キクタンフランス語会話【入門編】』の登場です！

シリーズ累計260万部突破、日本語・朗読ブームを作った国民的ベストセラーのオーディオブック！ かつて暗誦することは言語感覚を養い、心と身体を鍛える訓練法の一つだった。 忘れられつつある伝統的暗誦文化の復活を説く簡便で洒落た文章集成。

First published in 1843, it tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and unpleasant man who dislikes people generally and Christmas especially. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come and given a glimpse of the many homes and lives which Scrooge has touched in his wretched life to date. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

In The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland is a respectable London stockbroker who decides in middle age to abandon his wife and children and devote himself to his true passion: art. Strickland's destructive desire for self-expression takes him first to Paris to learn the craft of painting, and finally to Tahiti in the South Pacific. The Moon and Sixpence remains a complex and engaging novel echoing Maugham's own struggles between artistic expression and public respectability.

森鴎外（本名林太郎）は、官人に対する医療や医薬全般、医師の養成などを司る典医の家に生まれました。幼い頃から「論語」や「孟子」などの漢学書、オランダ語を学び、実年齢で習得するよりも早