The Complete Tragedies of William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline

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Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because they are based on real figures throughout the History of England, they were classified as "histories" in the First Folio. The Roman tragedies—Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus—are also based on historical figures, but because their source stories were foreign and ancient they are almost always classified as tragedies rather than histories. Shakespeare's romances (tragicomic plays) were written late in his career and published originally as either tragedy or comedy. They share some elements of tragedy featuring a high status central character but end happily like Shakespearean comedies. Several hundred years after Shakespeare's death, scholar F.S. Boas also coined a fifth category, the "problem play," for plays that do not fit neatly into a single classification because of their subject matter, setting, or ending. The classifications of certain Shakespeare plays are still debated among scholars.

Contents:

Titus Andronicus (1593)

Romeo and Juliet  (1595)

Julius Caesar (1600) 

Hamlet (1601)

Troilus and Cressida  (1602)

Othello (1605)

King Lear  (1606)

Macbeth  (1606)

Timon of Athens (1608)

Antony and Cleopatra (1607)

Coriolanus  (1608)

Cymbeline (1611)

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4.4
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Daniel McKenzie
June 20, 2022
A part critisism of Google Books & fault in the formatting of this audio book. - A little reward if you read to the end XD or TLDR my r/v Pros: The voice actor is Clear & somewhat emotive while reading actor lines. It's cheap +++ Great value for almost 42 hours worth of audio book reading/s Cons: Chapters in the collection have NO HEADINGS. More on how bad this is later... There's only 1 voice actor... technically 2 but the other voice actor only reads Romeo & Juliet by himself. Even though they do work to destinguish each actor, it's really not enough to make destinction & would be be much easier if there were 2 voice actors (or more). BYO book to follow along, it's difficult to without the script in front of you. The Play scripts divided in the chapters aren't consistent enough. The 1st 3 plays have chapters averaging 5 seconds to note what play is about to be read book. Play 4's title duration is 1:46 minutes which decided to include the Dramatis Personae Finding out that Hamlet is book 4 & its title is 1minute 46 might not sound like an issue but some 'chapters'/scenes last 2 minutes & some last 28minutes meaning you have to skim through the start of each & EVERY chapter of this 234 chapter audiobook to find the book you want. I'm trying to find MacBeth skimming through each chapter and it's practically taken me Half an hr or more. worst still. Google books wont let me add names to my book marks or rename these blank titled chapters. It'd have been better if this collation of Shakespeares' tragic works if they were divided into 12 audio novels. Congratulations of reading this far - if you still decide to purchase this i will save you some tedious work: Ch.2: Titus Andronicus Ch.16: Romeo & Juliet Ch.40: Julius Ceaser Ch.53: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Ch.74: Troilus & Cressida Ch.92: Othello, The Moor Of Venice Ch.108: King Lear Ch.129: MacBeth Ch.158: Timon Of Athens Ch.169: Antony And Cleopatra Ch.194: Coriolanus Ch.216: Cymbeline, King of Britan ----- Farewell fleeting passerby of this blue floating fleck.
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Krystala Hard
September 15, 2023
I must of listened to this 4 5 times over now I account the definition for each word now it has some outstanding tales
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