
The Tempest
A Play on Shakespeare
Author: Luke Daniel Paiva, William Shakespeare
Narrator: Gildart Jackson
Unabridged: 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 06/29/2018

Author: Luke Daniel Paiva, William Shakespeare
Narrator: Gildart Jackson
Unabridged: 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 06/29/2018
Luke Daniel Paiva, M. Ed., is a teacher and a children's author. A lover of Shakespeare, he appreciates the bard's clever observations about people and his ability to subtly (or not so subtly) mix them with humor. He lives with his wife and two boys in Franklin, Tennessee.
Gildart Jackson is a professional actor with experience on stage, on screen, and behind the mic. Best known for his role as Gideon on Charmed, he has narrated more than seventy audiobooks and has appeared on Providence, General Hospital, Stargate: Atlantis, Las Vegas, and CSI as well as in The Seagull, My Fair Lady, and Private Eyes at the Old Globe.
Roberto Irace is an illustrator, graphic designer, curator, and art director from Italy. Also known as Erre, he provided the illustrations for all three titles in the Play on Shakespeare series.
William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 (baptised) - April 23, 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, 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. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two 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.
The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s last plays, and somehow he probably knew this as he was writing and producing it. While I was rereading this book for the umpteenth time, I realised how strongly this particular play goes over and wraps up all the thirty-five plays that came before it. The plot is......more
Simple yet profound, The Tempest is a heartbreakingly sincere piece of elaborate theatrical artifice. Shakespeare is a magician at the height of his powers, so accomplished at his craft that he can reveal the mechanisms of his most marvelous tricks and still astonish us. This time through, I was stru......more
****Spoiler alert. Which seems really funny to do with a play over 400 years old.**** ”Our revels now are ended...These our actors, As I fortold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palac......more
Crashing onto a mysterious island where things seem amiss and visions and isolation might just be orchestrated by a magical being to use the shipwrecked crew as pawns in his epic game of power. No this isn’t 1600s LOST this is Shakespeare’s The Tempest and it is a maelstrom of monsters and men full......more
It’s so easy to judge Caliban based upon his actions and his violent speech, but he does have some real problems that cause them. He tried to rape Miranda. This is, of course, an absolutely terrible thing; however, does Caliban actually know this? In his life he has only known two people prior to me......more