William Shakespeare Audio Downloads

Download and listen to this full cast recording of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Hear the love story of Romeo, son of Montague, and Juliet, daughter of Capulet, as they fall in love despite their feuding families.

Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller.

Othello sits somewhere next to Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear as one of William Shakespeare's most celebrated tragedies.

Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he himself will become king.

King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written.

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623.

Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!

LearnOutLoud.com presents an Introduction to Poetry covering famous poems by great poets throughout the history of English poetry.

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath.

Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the range of Prospero's powers.