読み聞かせでもなく、サウンドドラマでもない。オーディオブックならではの圧倒的な表現力と、必要最小限の演出。誰もが知っている"はず"のシェイクスピア作品をダイジェストにして続々お届けします。 覇権争う二名家が、ところは花のヴェローナにて、積もる恨みもまたも新たに、血で血を洗う内輪もめ。憎む両家の恋人同士、幸も薄くその身を滅ぼす。やがて悲しき恋の果て、その死をもって恨みを葬る。死の影まとう恋の道行き、両家の恨みのつのるさま、子らが果てねば解けはせぬ。今より話が小一時間、みなさま耳をしばし拝借、至らぬところはご容赦あれ。 ※本商品はラム姉弟『シェイクスピア物語』をもとに、シェイクスピアの原典にある詩を加え、再編集しています。 ・Charles and Mary Lamb's TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies. In writing this extraordinary play, Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly 2,000 years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity. This production features the voice of Anton Lesser as Hamlet along with a full cast.

This widely studied play is one of the "best sellers" of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the sixth Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.

「モロッコ幻想」「箱の中」「暗い頭」「知らないクラスメート」「死んだ女」「陽のあたる家」「青と赤の二人」「強清水」「汚れたガラス窓」「帰り道」の選りすぐりのホラー小説全十篇の短篇集より「陽の当たる家」を収録。

This shattering drama of isolation and loss is one of the greatest tragedies in world literature. King Lear of Britain has three daughters: the hard-hearted Goneril and Regan, and the good and gentle Cordelia. He determines to divide his kingdom between them, giving the largest share to she who can say she loves him the best. Lear's tragic lack of judgment and self-knowledge is paralleled by the blindness of the loyal Gloucester who is persuaded to reject his virtuous son, Edgar, in favor of the villainous Edmund.

聖書は多くの人の手によって書かれた、神と人間との歴史における出会いの物語です。今から3000年ほど前の紀元前10世紀頃にその最も古い部分が書かれ、紀元後2世紀に最後の書が書かれました。

Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a specter from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge. The young prince is driven to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation he finds himself in and to do his duty. Many others, including Hamlet's beloved, the innocent Ophelia, are swept up in his tragedy.

A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery, The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered proof of both Wilde's genius and his perversion. Oscar Wilde's scandalous best seller of 1891 was one of the most damning pieces of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.

Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet-like figure, delivers a series of lessons and sermons in a Biblical style that articulate the central ideas of Nietzsche's mature thought.

康彦の母の遺骨に関しても、お腹の子に対しても、妻の則子はどこか変っているのだった――「エスプリの小説」「人生の闇の断面がたくみに切りとらえられて、心を打つ」「宝石細工のような作品」第81回直木賞受賞・選評より

ライオンが家畜に適さないのと同様に、恋は狂暴すぎてとてもドメスティックな生活に向いていない、と思う昭子は――「エスプリの小説」「人生の闇の断面がたくみに切りとらえられて、心を打つ」「宝石細工のような作品」第81回直木賞受賞・選評より

幼なじみの敏子と偶然再会した大学講師の堀田は、彼女の不遇に同情するうちに、いつしか情事にのめり込んでいった。彼のイギリス留学でふたりの仲は終りを告げるが、その機会に堀田はある決意を固めた…。

Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays. This play differs from its predecessors, being amore structured piece, examining the development and motivations of a single character, Richard Duke of Gloucester, who will stop at nothing to gain control of the throne occupied by his brother Edward IV.

結婚を三日後に控えたある夜、電話がなった。「もし、もし」・・敏郎の知らない女である――「エスプリの小説」「人生の闇の断面がたくみに切りとらえられて、心を打つ」「宝石細工のような作品」第81回直木賞受賞・選評より

"Traitor's Hands" is a short story by Agatha Christie that was published in Flynn's, a weekly pulp magazine, in the edition of 31 January 1925. This short story was later published as "Witness for the Prosecution".

"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis.

【内容紹介】『世界の思想や芸術、文化に多大な影響を及ぼす、聖書と並ぶ古典中の古典、ギリシア神話。人気作家の阿刀田高さんが、多彩で豊富な物語の枝葉を巧みに整理し、有名なエピソードを取り上げてわかりやすく解説します。神話を紹介しながらも、その神話が現代にどう生きているのかにも触れていて、非常に興味深い講話です。これを聴けばあなたはもう“ギリシア神話通”。 【講師紹介】作家 阿刀田高- 1935年、東京都生まれ。世界各国の古典を読み解いた『ギリシア神話を知っていますか』などがベストセラーとなった。日本ペンクラブ会長。

「大人のための」と断つたのは、子供には毒性がいささか強すぎるのと、話の性質思はずエロティックに傾くことがあつたのとで、大人の方により一層喜ばれさうだからです。 ・・・・・あとがき より

【内容紹介】謎多き人物、柿本人麻呂とは??柿本人麻呂といえば万葉の時代を生きた歌聖としてあまりにも有名だが、その生涯については謎が多い。「万葉集」の権威・中西進が、柿本人麻呂と彼が生きた古代国家について興味深い話を聴かせてくれる。【講師紹介】奈良県立万葉文化館館長 中西進- 1929年東京都生まれ。「万葉集」など古代文化の比較研究を主に、日本文化の全体像を視野におさめた研究・評論活動で知られる。大佛次郎賞、和辻哲郎文化賞ほか多数受賞。