Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 21 original MP3 tracks, 5:02:17 running time and a link to listen.
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, credited to Edith Nesbit, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVoxrecording of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, by Edith Nesbit Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children would not only understand, but delight in. This is a marvelous introduction to the works of Shakespeare that ALL will enjoy.
Recording facts
- Recording title: Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
- Author credits: Edith Nesbit
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 21
- Listed recording duration: 5:02:17
Catalogue topics
- Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
- Nesbit
- Edith Nesbit
- children
Track guide
- 00 - Preface and A Brief Life of Shakespeare — 12:18
- 01 - A Midsummer Night's Dream — 13:24
- 02 - The Tempest — 11:25
- 03 - As You Like It — 9:20
- 04 - Winter's Tale — 12:17
- 05 - King Lear — 5:58
- 06 - Twelfth Night — 14:00
- 07 - Much Ado About Nothing — 19:38
- 08 - Romeo and Juliet — 18:10
- 09 - Pericles — 10:16
- 10 - Hamlet — 16:04
- 11 - Cymbeline — 11:45
- 12 - Macbeth — 18:04
- 13 - The Comedy of Errors — 15:37
- 14 - The Merchant of Venice — 15:02
- 15 - Timon of Athens — 17:38
- 16 - Othello — 21:18
- 17 - The Taming of the Shrew — 11:58
- 18 - Measure for Measure — 18:12
- 19 - Two Gentlemen of Verona — 16:27
- 20 - All's Well That Ends Well — 13:33
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