Shakespeare Criticism

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    • The Strategies of Evil
    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello....

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    • How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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    • Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall
    • By: Eliot A. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics.

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    • How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
    • By: Farah Karim-Cooper
    • Narrated by: Farah Karim-Cooper, Adjoa Andoh
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century....

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    • Reflections on Shakespeare
    • By: Peter Brook
    • Narrated by: Michael Pennington
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Unique insights into Shakespeare, from one of the world’s most revered theatre directors. Who was the man who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? Why does Shakespeare never go out of date? How should actors approach Shakespeare’s verse....

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    • What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy
    • By: Paula Marantz Cohen
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Paula Marantz shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways....

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    • The Biography
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • Only Peter Ackroyd can combine narrative and unique observation with a sharp eye for the fascinating fact. His method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare’s life....

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    • A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
    • By: Michael Blanding
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of The Map Thief comes the true story of a self-taught Shakespeare sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the English language's most famous plays....

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    • By: Margreta de Grazia
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Margreta de Grazia presents a fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry....

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    • How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
    • By: Elizabeth Winkler
    • Narrated by: Eunice Wong
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies investigates the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be....

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    • Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
    • By: Andrew Dickson
    • Narrated by: Andrew Dickson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Ranging ambitiously across four continents and 400 years, Worlds Elsewhere is an eye-opening account of how Shakespeare went global....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
    • Length: 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In The Poet, an essay by US writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author expresses the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices....

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    • Give Me Life
    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....

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    • Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company
    • By: Steven Adler
    • Narrated by: Samuel Valor
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Steven Adler examines the dynamic life and workings of the theatre company responsible for some of the world's most compelling performances....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Phyllis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-23
    • Language: English
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    • Mark Twain embarks on a delightful literary investigation, challenging the authenticity of Shakespeare's authorship...

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