Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare, Ira Burton, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Narrator: a full cast

Unabridged: 2 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2011

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s brilliant production of Shakespeare’s disturbing and psychologically rich masterpiece Hamlet. Whether you’re a Hamlet scholar or being exposed to this work for the first time, this stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival cast, is a must-listen.In Denmark a king is dead. His brother, Claudius, has snatched the throne, and the widowed queen, yet life goes on—for everyone but Prince Hamlet. The prince, fixated on his uncle as the murderer, is charged by his father’s ghost to avenge the wrong. Disconnected from the foul world around him, Hamlet strains under the weight of his task, descending into madness, both real and feigned.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

About Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Established in 1935, the Tony Award–winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival offers an eight-month season with a wide-ranging playbill of eleven productions, including Shakespeare, American classics, musicals, contemporary works, and world premieres. Plays originating at OSF have gone on to be produced by many regional theaters, and its productions have been recognized and honored nationally. In 2011, the Blackstone Audio and Oregon Shakespeare Festival collaboration of Hamlet was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

About Bill Rauch

Bill Rauch became OSF’s fifth artistic director in 2007, after several seasons at the Festival as a guest director. In a total of fourteen seasons there, he has directed five world premieres and sixteen other plays.

Reviews

Goodreads review by daph pink ♡ on October 15, 2020

if you don't ship Hamratio did you even read the play???......more

Goodreads review by Bill on July 05, 2020

I don't have any earth-shattering insights to share from this most recent of god-knows-how-many readings, but this time through I was struck by: 1) what a damn fine piece of stagecraft this is, from the suspenseful, moody opening on the castle battlements to the solemn dead march carrying the prince......more

Goodreads review by jessica on October 28, 2019

shakespeare when pitching this play, probably: this is my OC hamlet. hes a prince. hes bisexual. hes moody, brooding, and is anywhere between the ages of 16 to 30 years old. and no, i am not taking constructive criticism. well, let me tell you what. im sold! i love hamlet. i love his angsty monologue......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 09, 2016

The Skinhead Hamlet - Shakespeare's play translated into modern English. By Richard Curtis. Yes, that Richard Curtis! Note : those offended by the F word - LOOK AWAY NOW! And Georgia, if you've stumbled on this review by your funny old dad - this is ANOTHER Paul Bryant. Not me! ********* ACT I SCENE I......more

Goodreads review by Vit on May 25, 2024

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark… I watched six different adaptations of Hamlet… This is a review of sorts… All the quirks are deliberate… Attempting Not to Be Why didn’t time choose to stop? How can the sun keep rising up? How dare the earth still turn around? Now that Ophelia’s drowned. Tomorro......more

Quotes

“Crackles with a contemporary energy, while still casting the sort of cold, eerie light on human experience that has made it history’s most celebrated play. Hip-hop’s just a small, though potent, part of the thrilling whole.” Oregonian on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s theatrical production of Hamlet

“The phenomenon of Hamlet, the prince without the play, is unsurpassed in the West’s imaginative literature.” Harold Bloom

Awards

  • Grammy Award
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