Shakespeare Criticism

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • 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 559 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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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 95 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 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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....

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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 18 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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    • 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 282 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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    • 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 53 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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    • By: David Sterling Brown
    • Narrated by: David Sterling Brown
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
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    • Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet, and Tamora—figures who are never quite 'white enough'—this bold and compelling work emphasizes how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and reaffirms white supremacy....

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    • 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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    • By: Fintan O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Fintan O'Toole
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays?

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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 42 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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    • Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
    • By: Stuart Kells
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it....

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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 34 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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    • By: Harold Bloom
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world....

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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 13 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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    • Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
    • By: Tina Packer
    • Narrated by: Tina Packer, Nigel Gore
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Women of Will, a narrative combining trenchant analysis and riveting scenes, explores the themes of love, loss, freedom, control, violence, and power through the heroines....

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    • A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare
    • By: Michelle Ephraim
    • Narrated by: Sharon Freedman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Green World is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Michelle Ephraim's quest to become a Shakespeare scholar and to find community and home. As she studies Shakespeare, Ephraim's world uncannily begins to mirror the story of the Jewish daughter in The Merchant of Venice.

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