A Midsummer Night's Dream: Two Complete Full Cast Performances of Original Shakespeare Text & Modern English

by William Shakespeare

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Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.

Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition

The complete original text performed by a full cast, and the complete play updated in modern English, also performed by a full cast Enhanced sound effects and music to complete the audio experience A track directory of the original English production and the modern English production for ease of comparison When Shakespeare's words make your head spin, this audiobook will help you sort out what's happening, who's saying what, and why!

So without further ado … we welcome you to the No Fear Shakespeare audiobook edition of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare!

PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Published April 13, 2023

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".

Reviews

[Lucky Leon · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was all right ig. THe plot was all over the place. If Mrs. Montes sees this, what I put in my final thoughts on the assignment is not how I truly felt. THIS is how I truly felt. THe plot was bad, Shakespeare so far has been overrated, there were too many character changes, and yeah it was not the best.

[an annchovy · Rating 2 out of 5]

it was alright and I secretly hate it.