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Written by Humphrey Carpenter - Performed by Carole Boyd - Unabridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 2.1 hours

Publisher, Chivers Audio Books (January 1999)

NOTE: This audiobook is packaged in a high impact PVC 'LIBRARY EDITION' case for years of use and storage.

Received the coveted "AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD" (August/September 1999) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

AudioFile says:
"Only the Brits could have produced a Shakespeare, and only they could rewrite the Bard four hundred years later without losing a beat or ruffling a feather! Carpenter has recreated several plays in a modern setting, using today's vocabulary and slang. Boyd's outstanding delivery further enhances the achievement. She presents Romeo & Juliet from the perspective of Juliet's nurse, who sounds like a '90's cockney. However, Boyd also dazzles listeners with Cassius's remorse over Caesar's murder. Her male and female voices are perfect; it is as if the listener is hearing a multi-voiced production. Comedy and tragedy get equal treatment; emotion, pathos and glee all come amazingly to life. A Shakespearean play has never been thus presented. This is best appreciated by older kids and adults." --S.G.B.

Though written nearly four hundred years ago, the stories in Shakespeare's plays are relevant today: stories of love, hate, jealousy, greed and magic. Humphrey Carpenter has retold the stories from nine plays in an original, exciting way. Hear what Juliet's nurse thought of her affair with Romeo; listen to Bottom's drunken rap as he tells of his Midsummer Night's Dream, share Cassius' remorse over the killing of Caesar, and laugh at Toby Belch's letters as he tries to untangle the farce of Twelfth Night.