Legendary actress and Shakespearean expert, Tina Packer takes all the fear out of understanding Shakespeare by adapting ten of The Bardβs most famous plays into easily understood short stories, retold in modern language. Her introduction provides the listener with easy-to-digest information about Elizabethan England and Shakespeareβs life and work.
βPacker captures the essence of the playwrightβs words and ideas, placing them in concise and clearly told stories...A treasure trove of well-told tales.β βSchool Library Journal
A Midsummer Nightβs Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet.
βWeβre passionate about bringing the classics to todayβs listeners in fun, relevant and easy-to-listen-to audiobooks,β says producer Alison Larkin. βAs soon as I learned that Tina has turned ten of Shakespeareβs most famous plays into short stories I knew they would make for an entertaining and important audiobook. I asked Tina to narrate them herself. Fortunately she said YES!β