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Written by William Shakespeare - Fiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3 hours, 25 minutes

Publisher, Audio Partners (March 2005)

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The printed book of this title was selected by The Reader's Catalog as one of the 40,000+ Best Books in Print!

Distressed by his fathers death and his mother’s over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is faced by a spectre from beyond the gave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge.

The young Prince is driven to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation he finds himself in and to do his duty. Many others, including Hamlet's beloved, the innocent 0phelia, are swept up in his tragedy, Shakespeare's most famous and one of the great stories in the literature of the world.

Teeming with life and death, rich with philosophy and memorable characters, the Bard's best known and most profound creation focuses on a man bent on avenging his father's murder, yet wracked by the uncertainty of his own conscience. He finally gets his revenge, but at a terrible cost.

Hamlet is played by Simon Russell Beale. Imogen Stubbs plays Ophelia, Jane Lapotaire is Gertrude and Bob Peck is Claudius. Polonius is played by Norman Rodway.

Full Cast:

Hamlet - Simon Russell Beale
Ophelia - Imogen Stubbs
Gertrude - Jane Lapotaire
Claudius - Bob Peck
Polonius - Norman Rodway
Ghost/Gravedigger - Paul Jesson
Horatio - Alan Cox
Laertes - Damian Lewis
Rosencrantz - John McAndrew
Guildenstern - Clarence Smith
Player King - Clifford Rose
Fortinbras - Chook Sibtain
Marcellus/Osric - Nicholas Rowe
Cornelius/Reynaldo - Alex Boyd-Williams
Prologue/Lucianus/Doctor - Nicholas Murchie
Player Queen - Steven O'Neill
Bernardo - Alan Westaway
Francisco - Alex McSweeney
Voltemand - Nick Monu

About the Creative Director: Clive Brill graduated from Oxford University and then joined the BBC where he worked for 12 years as director, producer, and commissioning editor. In 1996, he left the BBC to develop and direct the Arkangel Shakespeare project. He directed all 38 plays, which star many of today's finest actors. He is a co-director of Pacificus Productions in London, which produces drama across all media.

The Arkangel Complete Shakespeare is one of the most ambitious undertakings in recent recording history. All thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays, uncut, fully-dramatized and accompanied by original music, are brought to life by the voices of many of the most distinguished actors presently performing in British Film and Theatre.