Shakespeare: Life and Work: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Shakespeare: Life and Work, credited to John Munro; Frederick James Furnivall, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Shakespeare: Life and Work by John Munro; Frederick James Furnivall. Read in English by Lynne Thompson; Kalynda; Jim Locke; Rachel Mauldin William Shakespeare: actor, poet, playwright. He is often called England's greatest writer, the Bard of Avon, a national treasure. But who was he? An average boy, born to an average family of the period; a romantic and dreamer, tempted away from his rural home by the sights and sounds of the big city. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, here is one of the many studies of the bard's life and works.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Shakespeare: Life and Work
• Author credits: John Munro; Frederick James Furnivall
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 7:36:04

Catalogue topics

• plays
• Shakespeare
• English
• biography
• stage
• 400 years
• playwright
• stratford-on-avon

Track guide

1. 01 - Shakespere's Parents, Boyhood, Education, Marriage and Departure from Stratford — 49:02
2. 02 - Shakespere's London — 41:29
3. 03 - Development of Shakespere's Work and their Succession — 25:09
4. 04 - The First Period — 42:39
5. 05 - The Second Period — 47:34
6. 06 - The Third Period — 50:46
7. 07 - The Fourth Period — 23:36
8. 08 - My Experience in Shakespere's Work — 22:36
9. 09 - Shakespere as Revealed in his Works — 23:31
10. 10 - Continuation of Shakespere's Biography — 42:29
11. 11 - Shakespere's Will, Tomb, and Descendants — 30:41
12. 12 - English Drama Before Shakespere — 56:32

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