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Catalog date:
2009-10-26
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Shakspere: Personal Recollections

John A. Joyce (1842 - 1915)

A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by Tricia G.)

Genre(s): Fictional Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction, Humorous Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Sweepstakes; Autograph Letter of Shakspere Sibella Denton
 00:24:06
Play 01 Birth. School Days. Shows. Sibella Denton
 00:14:28
Play 02 Launched. Apprentice Boy. Ambition. Sibella Denton
 00:11:11
Play 03 Farm. Life. Sport. Poaching on Lucy. Ernst Pattynama
 00:13:27
Play 04 In Search of Peace and Fortune. Xe Sands
 00:14:13
Play 05 London. Its Guilt and Glory. Nelly (林子)
 00:13:28
Play 06 Taverns. Theatres. Variegated Society. Kalynda
 00:11:30
Play 07 Theatrical Drudgery. Compositions. Julie VW
 00:13:38
Play 08 Growing Literary Renown. Royal Patrons. Julie VW
 00:20:46
Play 09 Bohemian Hours. Westminster Abbey. 'Love's Labours Lost.' Kalynda
 00:13:00
Play 10 Queen Elizabeth. War. Shakspere in Ireland. Elizabeth Klett
 00:12:21
Play 11 Rural England. 'Romeo and Juliet.' Kalynda
 00:26:32
Play 12 'Julius Caesar.' ontheroad
 00:32:38
Play 13 Two Tramps. By Land and Sea. TriciaG
 00:41:37
Play 14 Windsor Park. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' Wendel Topper
 00:23:20
Play 15 The Jew. Shylock. 'The Merchant of Venice.' Kalynda
 00:33:46
Play 16 The Supernatural. 'Hamlet.' Kalynda
 00:40:12
Play 17 Death of Queen Elizabeth. Coronation of King James. Elizabeth Klett
 00:15:40
Play 18 Shakspere as Monologuist. King James. TriciaG
 00:34:38
Play 19 Stratford. Shakspere's Death. Patriotism Down the Ages. TriciaG
 00:48:37