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Blackstone Audio presents An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, a sparkling adaptation based on Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, augmented by miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeare’s plays. Read by a full cast and featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instruments, this production is entertaining and accessible for young and old alike!
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA read by Stephen Hoye
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS read by Arte Johnson
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW read by Robert Forster
SCENE: Petruchio & Kate read by Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM read by John Rubinstein
ROMEO AND JULIET read by Orson Scott Card
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE read by David Birney
SOLILOQUY: “Hath not a Jew...” read by David Birney
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING read by Scott Brick
MUSIC: “It Was a Lover and his Lass...” by Stefan Rudnicki
AS YOU LIKE IT read by Stephanie Zimbalist
HAMLET read by Joe Barrett
SOLILOQUY: “O What a Rogue... “ read by Joe Barrett
TWELFTH NIGHT read by Cassandra Campbell
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL read by Emily Janice Card
MEASURE FOR MEASURE read by Lorna Raver
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About the Authors
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.
Charles Lamb is the author of the AL:ICE series of science fiction novels. He was raised in the Southwest, survived a tour of duty in the Pacific Northwest, and now resides in Florida with his wife and three dogs.
Mary Lamb (1764 –1847) was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb. She is best known today for her collaboration with Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. She and Charles presided over a literary circle in London that included the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others.