""Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war..."" - Antony
A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.
Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series -- now on digital audiobook.
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"I've missed reading Shakespeare!!! I forgot how much I love Shakespearean language :) It was so interesting, and I regret not reading it sooner seeing as it was lying my school library the entire time. Though I am reading this for my English class, or I probably wouldn't have remembered to get it."
— ~Monica's*In*Love*With*Solitude~ (5 out of 5 stars)
" My class and I only read until the end of Act 3 sooo yeah "
— Alisa, 2/15/2014" "There are no tricks in plain and simple faith." "
— Annie, 2/15/2014" Not one of my favorites but still well done. Love it. "
— Rhianna, 2/15/2014" I love reading this play. In latin too! "
— Mia, 2/9/2014" Definitely one of Shakespeare's greatest drama texts. "
— Soragon, 2/7/2014" The difference between Antony's pointed description of Brutus as "an honorable man: in his famed speech and his sincere eulogy of him as "the noblest Roman of them all" is at the center of this play. Can a really bad decision be mitigated by good intentions? "
— Tammy, 2/4/2014" That's right, I went there. "
— Robert, 1/31/2014" It was an alright book. It was hard to understand at some points. It was also weird because of the way they did things back in the day. I like the overall story and it was interesting to try to interpret some of the dialogue. "
— Collin, 1/25/2014" omg i feel so sad for brutus :(((((( "
— Cecerose, 1/24/2014" The book would be great if all the others in my boring english class understood what shakespeare is saying. Not to mention the fact that sophomore english teachers suck at teaching this. "
— Nick, 1/18/2014" I must admit to loving the characters with major roles and to wishing he had eliminated some of his messengers and shortened the battle. "
— Charlotte, 1/17/2014William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-1983) was one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century English theater, ascending to the height of his profession in the mid-1930s when he became a star in London's West End. He became the first actor of his generation to be knighted in 1947. Along with Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, he is considered one the greatest English actors of the generation.