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The book is, quite simply, a line-by-line translation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest translated into modern English.

The lovely Viola disguises herself as a young man and quickly falls in love with the Duke she serves. The Duke in turn sends the disguised Viola to woo his lady - the fiesty and impetuous Olivia.

After seeing the ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet realizes that his new stepfather was the killer and plots revenge and ponders the value of life.

Presents five dozen sonnets of Shakespeare, including some of the best known in all of English literature.

Henry V is a study of kinship, patriotism, and heroic determination, tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, Princess of France.

Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator.

Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself?

Believed to have been written in 1603, Shakespeare's Othello is a tragedy that puts the playwright's prodigious creative gifts on full display.

Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover'

Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist.

Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner.

John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie's famous novel.

When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled.

"Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!" No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's husband was dead, brutally stabbed in the neck.

June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations.