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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.

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.

This box set brings the Bard's timeless tales to life for a younger generation, with wit and panache. Samantha Newman's cleverly reworked text retains many of Shakespeare's own inimitable turns of phrase, while simplifying and clarifying the language and plots to make stories accessible to children. Perfect for children aged 7+.

『お前の問いに応うは我らか、それとも我らが主、すなわち悪霊か』欲が為、暗い破滅の道へと人が転がり落ちていく様を描いた作品。さまざまな戯曲や物語の下敷きになっている本作では欲と理性の狭間で揺らぐ心が生々しく描かれている。マクベスと言えばあまりに有名な三人の魔女。マクベスに進言し、破滅の道へと誘ったのは、悪の誘惑か。それとも自明の必然か。魔女の箴言に人間マクベスの心は揺れる。

Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play. The wronged duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice is done. With Emilia Fox as Miranda, Scott Handy in the pivotal role of the sprite Ariel, and Ben Owukwe as Caliban.

老王リアが欲した"条件"は、目に見え、耳に聞こえるもの。 打算的な娘と描かれる長女・次女は果たして本当に愚かだったのだろうか。 強欲で盲目的な権威への執着がある父王から、その力を削いでいくこと。 それは視点を変えれば次の新しい世代を背負うものの現実的な対応とも捉えることはできまいか。

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。いいのか、いやそれとも、悩ましい。いずれが気高き心のありようか。つらい定めと矢弾を堪え忍ぶか、荒波に立ち向かい、鳧《けり》を付けるか。死とは眠り、ただそれだけのもの。眠れば、そう、胸の痛みは消える。体につきまとう千の苦しみさえも。それこそ願ってもない幕引きだ。死は眠り、となれば夢も見よう。それでは困る、死の眠りについた時、いったいどんな夢を見るというのだ。この世のしがらみから抜け出たとて、それがわからねば、この足も動かぬ。※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(および森鴎外訳「オフェリヤの歌」)を加え、再編集しています。・Charles and Mary Lamb's TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE: HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK edited by Yu Okubo translated by Yuka Akune

Sixth grader Greg Heffley doesn't understand his annoying younger brother, obnoxious older one, or well-meaning parents. But he knows enough to record his daily thoughts in a manly journal - not some girly diary. In a unique novel brimming with laugh-out-loud moments, Greg chronicles his first turbulent year of middle school.

Prince Hamlet's father is dead. Hamlet believes he was murdered, and that he knows the culprit. The only problem is it's his uncle, the new king—and Hamlet has no proof.

Here is the full-cast production of Shakespeare's classic love story, fully dramatized from the complete text, and starring Michael Sheen as Romeo and Kate Beckinsale as Juliet.

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.

This is a story from the Famous People in History collection.

A romance between a Roman general and the Queen of Egypt was never going to be easy. Marc Antony has abandoned his duties since he has fallen in love with Cleopatra. But as war looms, their union shifts from difficult to doomed...

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.

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and not long after entering Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere.

Yellow Bird Project制作、世界の童話シリーズ第250話。大人も子どもも楽しめる童話オーディオブックを、多彩なキャストとBGMでお届けします。『劇作家ウィリアム・シェイクスピアの傑作喜劇。イタリア、ヴェニスに住む貿易商人「アントニオ」は、友人の結婚資金を集めるため、悪い金貸し「シャイロック」から大金を借りました。この時二人が交わした「ある契約」が、のちに都中の注目を集める裁判のきっかけとなるのです。』

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least 30 years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture.

シェイクスピアにおける森の物語 -
本作は『夏の夜の夢』においても展開されるような森の中で起こる喜劇として同じジャンルに括られることも多い。 この「森」と言う場所は当時より神聖な場所として捉えられており、街や城、人里から森に入ってくることで浄化され 人と人。心と心が通い合っていくさまを表した物語として広く知られている。
現代社会においても休日を利用して山や海へと繰り出し、また日常に戻っていくこととなんら変りは無いのであろう。※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台詞(および野上豊一郎訳のプロローグ)を加え、再編集しています。・Charles and Mary Lamb's TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH edited by Yu Okubo translated by Yuka Akune

When young Orlando searches the forest for his banished lady love, Rosalind, he doesn't realise that he's met her in disguise. Dressed up as a boy, Rosalind sees a chance to train Orlando to be the sort of partner she'd like—and she has some laughs along the way!