{"product_id":"the-essential-shakespeare-live-british-library-2-cd-set","title":"The Essential Shakespeare Live (British Library) (2 CD Set)","description":"The British Library and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) join forces to publish this remarkable audio treasury of live Shakespearian performances. Selected from an extensive collection of recordings made by the British Library Sound Archive  these two double CD sets offer scenes and speeches from some of the most celebrated Shakespeare productions in the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The extracts cover almost half a century of productions  from Laurence Olivier as Coriolanus in 1959 to Ian McKellen as King Lear in 2007. Both Essential Shakespeare Live and Essential Shakespeare Encore! also include booklets that reproduce the play-text of each recorded extract in full along with introductions by Gregory Doran  Chief Association Director of the RSC. Essential Shakespeare Live features such notable actors of stage and screen as Judi Dench  Peter Brook  John Barton  Peggy Ashcroft  Alan Howard  Derek Jacobi  Ian McKellen  Alan Rickman  Anthony Sher  Donald Sinden  Robert Stephens  Patrick Stewart  Janet Suzman  and David Warner. Among the plays included in the set are King Lear  Hamlet  Twelfth Night  Julius Caesar  Romeo and Juliet  Alls Well that Ends Well  Henry V  and Richard III.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44683172741173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0712305246","price":39.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0712305246_c4ad9d97-6386-4acd-9575-d6556c3d3114.jpg?v=1765300632","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-essential-shakespeare-live-british-library-2-cd-set","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}