The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare

Publication date 2010-05-14
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audio, shakespeare, venice, drama, comedy
LibriVox recording of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to borrow money from a wealthy Jew, Shylock. Antonio pledges to pay Shylock a pound of flesh if he defaults on the loan, which Bassanio will use to woo a rich heiress, Portia. A subplot concerns the elopement of Shylock's daughter Jessica with a Christian, Bassanio's friend Lorenzo. In its focus on love and marriage, the play shares certain concerns with Shakespeare's other comedies. Yet its depiction of the tensions between Jews and Christians in early modern Venice - and its highly dramatic trial scene in Act 4 - create darker currents in the play. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Cast:

Duke of Venice: Filippo Gioachin
Prince of Morocco: Mark F. Smith
Prince of Arragon: David Nicol
Antonio: David O'Connell
Bassanio: mb
Salarino: Laurie Anne Walden
Salanio: Rosalind Wills
Gratiano: David Leeson
Lorenzo: Aaron Elliott
Shylock: etk
Tubal: Carolyn Frances
Launcelot Gobbo: L. Lambert Lawson
Old Gobbo: David Lawrence
Leonardo: Laurie Anne Walden
Balthasar: David Lawrence
Stephano: Lucy Perry
Portia: Arielle Lipshaw
Nerissa: Megan Kunkel
Jessica: Elizabeth Klett
Clerk in court: Ernst Pattynama
Portia's servant: Joshua B. Christensen
Narrator: Dennis Sayers

Audio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

act 1 of the merchant of venice this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer visit librivox librivox.org

the merchant of venice by william shakespeare act one scene one venice a street enter antonio salorino and salano in sooth i know not why i am so sad it wearies me you say it wearies you but how i caught it found it or came by it what stuffed is made of whereof it is born i am to learn and such a want-wit sadness makes of me that i have much ado to know myself your mind is tossing on the ocean therefore your argosies with portly sail like senors and rich burgers on the flood or as it were the pageants of the sea do over pier the petty traffickers that curtsy to them do them reverence as they fly by them with their woven wings believe me sir had i such venture forth the better part of my affections would be with my hopes abroad i should be still plucking the grass to know where sits the wind peering in maps for ports and piers and roads and every object that might make me fear misfortune to my ventures out of doubt would make me sad my wind cooling my broth would blow me to an egg when i thought what harm a win too great might do at sea i should not see the sandy hourglass run but i should think of shallows and of flats and see my wealthy andrew docked in sand veiling her high top lower than her ribs to kiss her burial should i go to church and see the holy edifice of stone and not to think me straight of dangerous rocks which touching but my gentle vessel's side would scatter all her spices on the stream and rode the roaring waters with my silks and in a word but even now worth this and now worth nothing shall i have the thought to think on this and shall i lack the thought that such a thing the chance would make me sad but tell not me i know antonio is sad to think upon his merchandise believe me no i thank my fortune for it my ventures are not in one bottom trusted nor to one place nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year therefore my merchandise makes me...

The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare

Publication date 2010-05-14
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audio, shakespeare, venice, drama, comedy
LibriVox recording of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to borrow money from a wealthy Jew, Shylock. Antonio pledges to pay Shylock a pound of flesh if he defaults on the loan, which Bassanio will use to woo a rich heiress, Portia. A subplot concerns the elopement of Shylock's daughter Jessica with a Christian, Bassanio's friend Lorenzo. In its focus on love and marriage, the play shares certain concerns with Shakespeare's other comedies. Yet its depiction of the tensions between Jews and Christians in early modern Venice - and its highly dramatic trial scene in Act 4 - create darker currents in the play. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Cast:

Duke of Venice: Filippo Gioachin
Prince of Morocco: Mark F. Smith
Prince of Arragon: David Nicol
Antonio: David O'Connell
Bassanio: mb
Salarino: Laurie Anne Walden
Salanio: Rosalind Wills
Gratiano: David Leeson
Lorenzo: Aaron Elliott
Shylock: etk
Tubal: Carolyn Frances
Launcelot Gobbo: L. Lambert Lawson
Old Gobbo: David Lawrence
Leonardo: Laurie Anne Walden
Balthasar: David Lawrence
Stephano: Lucy Perry
Portia: Arielle Lipshaw
Nerissa: Megan Kunkel
Jessica: Elizabeth Klett
Clerk in court: Ernst Pattynama
Portia's servant: Joshua B. Christensen
Narrator: Dennis Sayers

Audio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

act 1 of the merchant of venice this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer visit librivox librivox.org

the merchant of venice by william shakespeare act one scene one venice a street enter antonio salorino and salano in sooth i know not why i am so sad it wearies me you say it wearies you but how i caught it found it or came by it what stuffed is made of whereof it is born i am to learn and such a want-wit sadness makes of me that i have much ado to know myself your mind is tossing on the ocean therefore your argosies with portly sail like senors and rich burgers on the flood or as it were the pageants of the sea do over pier the petty traffickers that curtsy to them do them reverence as they fly by them with their woven wings believe me sir had i such venture forth the better part of my affections would be with my hopes abroad i should be still plucking the grass to know where sits the wind peering in maps for ports and piers and roads and every object that might make me fear misfortune to my ventures out of doubt would make me sad my wind cooling my broth would blow me to an egg when i thought what harm a win too great might do at sea i should not see the sandy hourglass run but i should think of shallows and of flats and see my wealthy andrew docked in sand veiling her high top lower than her ribs to kiss her burial should i go to church and see the holy edifice of stone and not to think me straight of dangerous rocks which touching but my gentle vessel's side would scatter all her spices on the stream and rode the roaring waters with my silks and in a word but even now worth this and now worth nothing shall i have the thought to think on this and shall i lack the thought that such a thing the chance would make me sad but tell not me i know antonio is sad to think upon his merchandise believe me no i thank my fortune for it my ventures are not in one bottom trusted nor to one place nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year therefore my merchandise makes me...

Othello
by William Shakespeare

Publication date 2021-08-21
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, Shakespeare, classics
LibriVox recording of Othello by William Shakespeare.
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Othello is a tragedy about the downfall of the titular hero, Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice. His cunning ensign, Iago, plots to goad his jealousy and thus manipulate his relationship with his wife, Desdemona, a noble and virtuous Venetian beauty whom he just married. (Summary by Junrui Zheng).

act one of othello this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by nicolas seducci a fellow by william shakespeare act one scene one venice a street enter rodrigo and iago rodrigo tash never tell me i take it much unkindly that thou iago who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine should know of this iago it's blood but you will not hear me if ever i did dream of such a matter abhor me rodrigo thou told me thou didst hold him and i hate iago despise me if i do not three great ones of the city in personal suit to make me his lieutenant of caps to him and by the faith of man i know my price i am worth no worse a place but he as loving his own pride and purposes evades them with a bombast circumstance horribly stuffed with epithets of war and in conclusion none suits my mediators for cert he says he i have already chose my officer and what was he forsooth a great arithmetician one michael cassio a florentine a fellow almost damned and a fair wife that never set a squadron in the field nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster unless the bookish theoretic wherein the toad's consoles can propose as masterly as he mayor prattle without practice is all his soldiership but he sir had the election and i of whom his eyes had seen the proof at roads at cyprus and on other grounds christian and heathen must be bullied and calmed by debiter and creditor this counter-caster he in good time must his lieutenant be and i god bless the mark his more ships ancient

roderigo by heaven i rather would have been his hangman iago why there's no remedy tis the curse of service preferment goes by letter and affection and not by old gradation where each second stood there to the first now sir be judge yourself whether i in any just term emma find to love the more rodrigo i would not follow him then iago oh sir content you i follow him to serve my turn upon him we cannot all be masters nor all masters cannot be truly followed you shall mark many a duties and knee crooking nave that doting on his own obsequious bondage wears out his time much like his master's ass for not but provender and when he's old cashiered whip me such honest knaves others there are who trimmed in forms and visages of duty keep yet their hearts attending on themselves and throwing but shows of service on their lords do well thrive by them and when they have line their coats do themselves homage these fellows have some soul and such a one do i profess myself for sir it is as sure as you or rodrigo were i the more i would not be iago and following him i fall about myself heaven is my judge not i for love and duty but seeming so for my peculiar end for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern tis not long after but i will wear my heart upon my sleeve for dawes to peck at i am not what i am rodrigo what a full fortune does the thick lips owe if he can carry it with us iago call up her father rouse him make after him poison his delight proclaim him in the streets incense her kinsmen and though he had a fertile climate dwell plague him with flies though that is joy be joy yet throws such changes of vexation on as it may lose some color rodrigo here is her father's...

Othello
by William Shakespeare

Publication date 2021-08-21
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, Shakespeare, classics
LibriVox recording of Othello by William Shakespeare.
Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers

Othello is a tragedy about the downfall of the titular hero, Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice. His cunning ensign, Iago, plots to goad his jealousy and thus manipulate his relationship with his wife, Desdemona, a noble and virtuous Venetian beauty whom he just married. (Summary by Junrui Zheng).

act one of othello this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by nicolas seducci a fellow by william shakespeare act one scene one venice a street enter rodrigo and iago rodrigo tash never tell me i take it much unkindly that thou iago who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine should know of this iago it's blood but you will not hear me if ever i did dream of such a matter abhor me rodrigo thou told me thou didst hold him and i hate iago despise me if i do not three great ones of the city in personal suit to make me his lieutenant of caps to him and by the faith of man i know my price i am worth no worse a place but he as loving his own pride and purposes evades them with a bombast circumstance horribly stuffed with epithets of war and in conclusion none suits my mediators for cert he says he i have already chose my officer and what was he forsooth a great arithmetician one michael cassio a florentine a fellow almost damned and a fair wife that never set a squadron in the field nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster unless the bookish theoretic wherein the toad's consoles can propose as masterly as he mayor prattle without practice is all his soldiership but he sir had the election and i of whom his eyes had seen the proof at roads at cyprus and on other grounds christian and heathen must be bullied and calmed by debiter and creditor this counter-caster he in good time must his lieutenant be and i god bless the mark his more ships ancient

roderigo by heaven i rather would have been his hangman iago why there's no remedy tis the curse of service preferment goes by letter and affection and not by old gradation where each second stood there to the first now sir be judge yourself whether i in any just term emma find to love the more rodrigo i would not follow him then iago oh sir content you i follow him to serve my turn upon him we cannot all be masters nor all masters cannot be truly followed you shall mark many a duties and knee crooking nave that doting on his own obsequious bondage wears out his time much like his master's ass for not but provender and when he's old cashiered whip me such honest knaves others there are who trimmed in forms and visages of duty keep yet their hearts attending on themselves and throwing but shows of service on their lords do well thrive by them and when they have line their coats do themselves homage these fellows have some soul and such a one do i profess myself for sir it is as sure as you or rodrigo were i the more i would not be iago and following him i fall about myself heaven is my judge not i for love and duty but seeming so for my peculiar end for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern tis not long after but i will wear my heart upon my sleeve for dawes to peck at i am not what i am rodrigo what a full fortune does the thick lips owe if he can carry it with us iago call up her father rouse him make after him poison his delight proclaim him in the streets incense her kinsmen and though he had a fertile climate dwell plague him with flies though that is joy be joy yet throws such changes of vexation on as it may lose some color rodrigo here is her father's...

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