Considered to be one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, the tragedy King Lear portrays some of the darkest aspects of human nature that can be found in literature. The helplessness...

Richard III is an early history play probably written and performed around 1592-93. It is the culmination of Shakespeares earlier three plays about Henry VI, and chronicles the...

Though it's titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the man himself appears only in five scenes in the entire play! However, such is his impact on the events that surrounded him that...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Sonnet 28 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 26th, 2007.

Richard II by William Shakespeare is the first of eight plays that portray a historically-informed version of the War of the Roses - beginning in about 1365 and ending with...

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 15th, 2006.

Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the...

Em 1208, num condado com importantes figuras fiéis ao rei, a paixão da jovem filha do conde por um simples camponês, desencadeia uma briga entre duas famílias interessadas em...

Resolvi escrever meus comentários sobre esta peça trágica de Shakespeare tendo em vista o valor literário desta obra. Podemos dizer que é uma leitura obrigatória para...

Shakespeares Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics,...