The Tempest (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Tempest (version 2), credited to William Shakespeare, 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:

LibriVox recording of The Tempest (version 2) by William Shakespeare. Read in English by Hamlet; Sonia; Tomas Peter; Craig Franklin Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest. Focusing on the aging sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero, we are transported to a remote island where magic and strange music fill the air, and the monstrous slave Caliban roams in bitterness. Seeing an opportunity to restore his slandered name, Prospero conjures a mighty storm to bring down a ship containing his wicked brother and the King of Naples, both of whom had driven him out of Milan twelve years before. By stranding them on a remote end of the island, and with the help of the airy spirit Ariel, Prospero sets out to right the wrongs that had been done to him, before renouncing his magic forever. Featuring some of the most powerful speeches in Shakespeare's canon, and with an incredible grasp on tone and the Neoclassical unities of time, place and action, The Tempest remains a formidable and moving farewell to both the Bard and the timeless works he left behind. And to perform it all? Three men (Craig Franklin, Tomas Peter, and Brad "Hamlet" Filippone) and one woman (Sonia), determined to give you a performance of Shakespeare's final work that you will never forget. You thought you knew your Shakespeare? Well, think again! - Summary by Tomas Peter Craig Franklin: Narrator; Alonso; Gonzalo; Trinculo; Iris; Boatswain; Third Mariner. Brad “Hamlet” Filippone: Prospero; Stephano; Adrian; Ship Master; Second Mariner. Sonia: Miranda; Ariel; Antonio; Juno; First Mariner. Tomas Peter: Caliban; Sebastian; Ferdinand; Francisco; Ceres; Fourth Mariner.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Tempest (version 2)
• Author credits: William Shakespeare
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 2:25:28

Catalogue topics

• drama
• romance
• Shakespeare
• magic
• shipwreck
• betrayal
• the tempest
• caliban

Track guide

1. 00 - Dramatis Personae — 2:11
2. 01 - Act 1 — 39:17
3. 02 - Act 2 — 33:56
4. 03 - Act 3 — 25:49
5. 04 - Act 4 — 19:12
6. 05 - Act 5 — 25:03

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