Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Full Cast
Abridged: 1 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Caedmon
Published: 12/27/2003
Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Comedy, Theater
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.
Huh. This certainly didn't age well, did it? And I get it. You can't really judge an old ass play by today's moral standards. Except you kind of can. So. Kate is kind of a screechy bitch who doesn't want to get married. Her father (idiotically) proclaims that he won't allow his younger daughter, Bianc......more
Lucentio: Hey, I'm Lucentio. Who's that hot girl? Bianca: That would be me. And hotness is about all I have going for me. Because I only have about 5 lines. Lucentio: Wanna have sex get married? Baptista: I'm her father, you whippersnapper. Get in line. She can't get married until her older sister does......more
It makes some people feel better to believe that the rampant misogyny in this play is supposed to be ironic. Well, whatever. I still don't much enjoy watching a woman having her spirit broken down until she's nothing but a shell of what she once was.......more
The gentle gentleman, William Shakespeare pokes glorious fun at customs, marriages , greed and scoundrels, especially pretentious men and women. .. A practical joke can be carried to the extreme, in the northern Italian city of Padua, in the time of the brilliant Renaissance, a poor intoxicated man......more
