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    Richard Burton reads The Rape of Lucrece
    Richard Burton reads The Rape of Lucrece
    Richard Burton reads The Rape of Lucrece
    Audiobook58 minutes

    Richard Burton reads The Rape of Lucrece

    Written by William Shakespeare

    Narrated by Richard Burton

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    Richard Burton reads Shakespeare's narrative poem about the legendary Lucretia
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaland Publishing
    Release dateJan 12, 2011
    ISBN9781908650108
    Richard Burton reads The Rape of Lucrece
    Author

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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    • 5/5
      It’s a very skilled performance of the abridged text. Excellently done.
    • 5/5
      Excellently read by Richard Burton. Give that man an Oscar!
    • 4/5
      Like Lolita or Paradise Lost, a story in which we see ourselves in the villain. "Why hunt I then for colour or excuses? / All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth", says he, rightly. Reminds us of how terrible love and lust can be. And of course the prosody is exquisite.