The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha, credited to C. F. Tucker Brooke, 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 The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha by C. F. Tucker Brooke. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers "The ambition of the editor has been to provide an accurate and complete text, with adequate critical and supplementary matter, of all those plays which can, without entire absurdity, be included in the 'doubtfully Shakespearian' class." This Librivox project provides the Preface and Introduction of this book, wherein some 42 candidate Shakespeares are whittled down to some 14 plays "which alone appear entitled, on grounds either of reason or of custom, to a place among the Shakespeare Apocrypha." The book then presents the text (not included here) of the 14 plays; Librivox performances of these play texts will be presented separately in our catalog. For example, The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Birth of Merlin are already released. - Summary by Author and Toddhw

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha
• Author credits: C. F. Tucker Brooke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 2:53:53

Catalogue topics

• Shakespeare
• fake

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface — 7:14
2. 02 - Introduction — 25:44
3. 03 - Arden of Feversham, Locrine — 21:09
4. 04 - Edward III, Mucedorus, Sir John Oldcastle — 24:59
5. 05 - Thomas Lord Cromwell, The London Prodigal, The Puritan, A Yorkshire Tragedy — 23:02
6. 06 - The Merry Devil of Edmonton, Fair Em, The Two Noble Kinsmen — 31:41
7. 07 - The Birth of Merlin, Sir Thomas More — 40:04

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