

King Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Kenneth Branagh, Geraldine McEwan, Nicholas Farrell, Stella Gonet, and Michael Maloney
Unabridged: 3 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 01/01/2001
Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Kenneth Branagh, Geraldine McEwan, Nicholas Farrell, Stella Gonet, and Michael Maloney
Unabridged: 3 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 01/01/2001
William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.
Anne And thou unfit for any place but hell. Richard Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it. Anne Some dungeon. Richard Your bedchamber. !!!!!!!!!!!......more
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Shakespeare wrote two titanic tetralogies at the start of his career, spanning through the dynasties of 15th-century kings of England, from Edward III down to Henry VII. The second half of this gigantic saga (Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3 + Richard III) has a general downward and inward movement. Downwa......more
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