Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare - FULL Audio Book - Actor - Theater (Or, What You Will)

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TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare - FULL Audio Book - DRAMATIC READING - Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601--02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first recorded performance was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year's calendar. The play was not published until its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia.org - Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twelfth_Night&action;=history) - LISTEN for FREE & SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books: http://www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks - Become a FRIEND: http://www.Facebook.com/GreatestAudioBooks - Visit our WEBSITE: http://www.GreatestAudioBooks.com/ - READ along by clicking (CC) for Transcript Captions! - LISTEN to this entire book for free! CHAPTER LISTING & CHAPTER LENGTH: Act 1 -- 00:33:41 Act 2 -- 00:36:32 Act 3 -- 00:39:25 Act 4 -- 00:12:57 Act 5 -- 00:21:50 CAST: Orsino, Duke of Illyria — Joshua B. Christensen Sebastian — Madame Tusk Antonio, a Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian — Alan Davis Drake A Sea Captain — Kara Shallenberg Valentine, a gentleman attending on the Duke — Zachary Brewster-Geisz Curio, a gentleman attending on the Duke — Heather Barnett Sir Toby Belch, uncle to Olivia — Alan Davis Drake Sir Andrew Aguecheek — Andy Minter Malvolio, steward to Olivia — John Gonzalez Fabian, servant to Olivia — James Rye Feste the Clown — Larysa Jaworski Olivia, a rich Countess — Kristin Hughes Viola — Karen Savage Maria, Olivia's waiting woman — Rosalind Wills Servant — Larysa Jaworski Priest — J.C. First Officer — Christie Nowak Second Officer — Rosalind Wills Narrator — Gesine MORE ABOUT WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptized) -- 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, two epitaphs on a man named John Combe, one epitaph on Elias James, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognized as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshiped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the 20th century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. (from Wikipedia) This video: Copyright 2012. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved. Audio content is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more info or to volunteer visit Librivox.org.