Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Paul Scofield, Full Cast
Abridged: 3 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Caedmon
Published: 12/27/2003
William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.
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