Shakespeare The Essential Tragedies, Volume 1

Nov 26, 2025 11:50 AM

Author:William Shakespeare

An essential collection of four of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies - the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 productions. * 'Romeo and Juliet' (3 CDs): with Douglas Henshall as Romeo; Sophie Dahl as Juliet, and Susannah York as Lady Capulet.* 'Julius Caesar' (2 CDs): starring Gerard Murphy, Stella Gonet and Nicholas Farrell.* 'The Tempest' (2 CDs): starring Philip Madoc and Nina Wadia. * 'King Lear' (3 CDs): with Corin Redgrave as Lear, Geraldine James as Goneril, Kika Markham as Regan, and Justine Waddell as Cordelia.

Reviews

After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame

—— Spectator

One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction

—— Sunday Times

A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny

—— Financial Times

A brilliant wacky ideas-monger

—— Guardian

It's sassy, it's smart... Go girl!

—— Jeanette Winterson

An extraordinary, irreducible fantasy

—— Observer

Burgess's ambitious study of 20th-century history centers on the stormy relationship between an effete, popular novelist and a Faustian priest

—— Publishers Weekly

It is glitzy, glamorous, page-turning stuff with bite

—— Sarah Broadhurst

Chilling...will keep you guessing until the end

—— Psychologies

Chilling psychological thriller... Fact and fiction are cleverly blurred, and the intricately plotted spins and turns will keep you guessing till the end

—— Glamour

Intriguing... Real life tangles with his fantasy online world to create a heart-stopping page-turner

—— Good Housekeeping

Blueeyedboy is unquestionably a masterpiece of deception and fantasy

—— Oxford Times

A dark exploration into the mind of an internet-obsessed would-be killer

—— Red

Creepy psychodrama...BB's voice soon takes on the seductive cadences of her Gallic creations. Harris's triumph is to incorporate email-speak into this tale of rural nasties without frightening the horses

—— Independent

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