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Shakespeare: The Problem Plays : All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure For Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter’s Tale

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William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.

All 6 of Shakespeare’s ‘Problem Plays’ are collected here, performed by the celebrated Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players.

Mystery, power, and malevolence are present in these plays, all of which subvert the happy endings that one would expect in a comedy, and the tragic effect one would expect in a tragedy, to pose deeper, moral questions that echo modern society. Performed by an incredible array of the 20th century’s greatest actors, Marlowe alumni including Roy Dotrice, Prunella Scales, Ian McKellen, Michael Hordern, and Derek Jacobi can be heard in these recordings.

All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations.

Thurston Dart, Professor of Music at London University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, directed the music for this production.

This collection includes all 6 plays considered as Shakespeare’s Problem Plays:

• All’s Well That Ends Well

• Measure For Measure

• The Merchant of Venice

• Timon of Athens

• Troilus and Cressida

• The Winter’s Tale

The full casts for each production in this collection can be found in the description of the individual play’s product page.



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    Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman, Heinrich Heine, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Lord Byron, Friedrich Schiller, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Dschalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Gottfried von Straßburg, Victor Hugo, Dante Alighieri, William Wordsworth Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Giacomo Leopardi, Georg Herwegh, Giosuè Carducci, Omar Chayyām, Alphonse de Lamartine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Christian Morgenstern, Joachim Ringelnatz, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Robert Burns, Charles Baudelaire

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  2. William Shakespeare: Der Kaufmann von Venedig : Eine Komödie. Ungekürzt gelesen.

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  3. Romeo and Juliet

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  4. Die 100 schönsten Liebesromane zu Weihnachten : Stolz und Vorurteil, Kleine Frauen, Weiße Nächte, Die Bettelprinzeß, Anne auf Green Gables, Trotzige Herzen, Eugen Onegin

    Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily Brontë, Victor Hugo, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Eugenie Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, Stendhal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, George Sand, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Leo Tolstoi, Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Prosper Mérimée, François-René de Chateaubriand, Stefan Zweig, Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem, Hermann Stehr, Sophie La Roche, William Shakespeare, Gottfried von Straßburg, Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin, Hermann Heiberg, D. H. Lawrence, Fjodor Dostojewski, Ida Boy-Ed, Arthur Schnitzler, Anatole France, Johanna Spyri, George Eliot, Nataly von Eschstruth, Marianne Ehrmann, Sophie Albrecht, Sophie Mereau, Caroline von Wolzogen, Christian August Vulpius, Benedikte Naubert, Johanna Schopenhauer, Frau von W, Levin Schücking, Hermann Stegemann

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  5. The Merchant Of Venice :

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  6. Romeo und Julia

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  7. Romeo und Julia

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  8. The Giants of Literature: Series 1 : Complete Novels by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charlotte Brontë

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  9. The Greatest Writers of All Time: Series 1 : William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Charlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo

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  10. The Merchant of Venice

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  11. Macbeth

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  12. Henry IV, part 1

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  2. Shakespeare: The Masque Quartet : Henry VIII, A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest

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  3. Shakespeare: The Rome Quartet : Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus

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  4. Shakespeare: The Problem Plays : All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure For Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter’s Tale

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    William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats

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    Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, William Wordsworth, WB Yeats, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Siegfried Sassoon, John Keats, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ted Hughes, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Wilfred Owen

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