Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by Edith Nesbit

Titania by Henry Meynell Rheam

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Preface and a Brief Life of Shakespeare

Chapter 1 A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chapter 2 The Tempest

Chapter 3 As you Like it

Chapter 4 The Winter’s Tale

Chapter 5 King Lear

Cordelia by William Frederick Yeames

Chapter 6 Twelfth Night

Chapter 7 Much Ado about Nothing

Chapter 8 Romeo and Juliet

Juliet by Philip_H._Calderon

Chapter 9 Pericles

Chapter 10 Hamlet

Chapter 11 Cymbeline

Chapter 12 Macbeth

"Macbeth seeing the ghost of Banquo" by Théodore Chassériau

Chapter 13 Comedy of Errors

Chapter 14 Merchant of Venice

Chapter 15 Timon of Athens

Shakespeare Death_of_Desdemona Othello

Chapter 16 Othello

Chapter 17 The Taming of the Shrew

William Hunt's Claudio and Isabella from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Chapter 18 Measure for Measure

Chapter 19 Two Gentlemen of Verona

Chapter 20 All’s Well that Ends Well

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Puck from Midsummer Night's Dream by Arthur Rackham, public domain image

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illustration of Puck from Midsummer Night's Dream by Arthur Rackham, public domain image

Shakespeare Radio Theater

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Hamlet part 1, presented by Columbia Workshop

Hamlet part 2, presented by Columbia Workshop


Juliet by Philip H. Calderon

Orson Welles in the final scene from Romeo and Juliet

As You Like It presented by Columbia Workshop

Speeches from Richard II

Soliloquy from Richard III

Juliet by Waterhouse

Scene from King Lear

Scene from Henry V

Twelfth Night with Orson Welles

Mister Shakespeare on Favorite Story

Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare

Hamlet Playscene by Harold Copping

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Miranda, The Tempest by JW Waterhouse

00 – Preface

01 – The Tempest

02 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

03 – Winter’s Tale

04 – Much Ado About Nothing

Dogberry examining Conrade and Borachio from Much Ado about Nothing

05 – As You Like It

06 – Two Gentlemen of Verona

07 – Merchant of Venice

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Shakespeare's Shylock by Charles Buchel

08 – Cymbeline

09 – King Lear

10 – Macbeth

11 – All’s Well That Ends Well

12 – Taming of the Shrew

13 – Comedy of Errors

Juliet by JW Waterhouse

14 – Measure for Measure

15 – Twelfth Night

16 – Timon of Athens

17 – Romeo and Juliet

18 – Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Ophelia by JW Waterhouse

19 – Othello

20 – Pericles, Prince of Tyre

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

The Mock Marriage of Orlando and Rosalind by Walter Howell Deverell, public domain image

Summary: One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love Orlando also shows up in the forest, she courts him without revealing her identity. Meanwhile, Phebe mistakenly falls in love with her disguise, Silvius pines for Phebe, Jacques philosophizes, and Touchstone makes fun of it all, and love and happiness triumph (for the most part) as Rosalind orchestrates a happy ending amid the confusion. (Summary by Rosalind Wills for Librivox)

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Total running time:  2 hours, 24 minutes

Rosalind by Robert Walker Macbeth, public domain image

Dramatis Personae

Act 1

Act 2

Rosalind and Celia by Hugh Thomson, public domain image

Act 3

Act 4

Act 5