All the World's Your Stage Shakespeare for Today

Discover the World of Shakespeare through 8 of his Most Famous Plays

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On sale Nov 11, 2025 | 2 Hours and 11 Minutes | 9798217139637

Introduce your child to the work of Shakespeare in this gorgeous treasury for all the family to enjoy.??

By expertly reimagining eight of the bard’s most famous plays, Farah Karim-Cooper breathes new life into these well-loved works. With insightful and engaging storytelling combined with historical context and key themes for each play, listeners will discover how Shakespeare gives us tools to think about the world today – and realize that Shakespeare really is for everyone.
Including kid-friendly summaries of:
* Romeo and Juliet
* Macbeth
* The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
* A Midsummer Night’s Dream
* As You Like It
* The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
* The Tempest
* The Merchant of Venice

Alex Waldmann is a theatre actor that has acted in the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe productions of Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi. When he is not mesmerising us on stage you may recognise him from the Star Wars series Andor. Alex is perfect for this role as he brings his Shakespeare knowledge to bringing these plays to life.??

© 2025 Farah Karim-Cooper (P) 2025 DK Audio
© Sarah Lee
Farah Karim-Cooper is a Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe and a professor of literature and Shakespeare studies at King’s College London; she was president of the Shakespeare Association of America from 2021 to 2022 after serving three years on the board of trustees. The holder of an Oxford University TORCH Humanities Cultural Programme Fellowship, she was a visiting fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, from 2022 to 2023. She curated the Globe Theatre’s Shakespeare and Race festivals and its Anti-Racist Shakespeare webinar series. She is a general coeditor of the Folger Shakespeare Editions and the author of works on Shakespeare including Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama, The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage, and most recently Titus Andronicus: The State of Play. View titles by Farah Karim-Cooper

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Introduce your child to the work of Shakespeare in this gorgeous treasury for all the family to enjoy.??

By expertly reimagining eight of the bard’s most famous plays, Farah Karim-Cooper breathes new life into these well-loved works. With insightful and engaging storytelling combined with historical context and key themes for each play, listeners will discover how Shakespeare gives us tools to think about the world today – and realize that Shakespeare really is for everyone.
Including kid-friendly summaries of:
* Romeo and Juliet
* Macbeth
* The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
* A Midsummer Night’s Dream
* As You Like It
* The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
* The Tempest
* The Merchant of Venice

Alex Waldmann is a theatre actor that has acted in the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe productions of Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi. When he is not mesmerising us on stage you may recognise him from the Star Wars series Andor. Alex is perfect for this role as he brings his Shakespeare knowledge to bringing these plays to life.??

© 2025 Farah Karim-Cooper (P) 2025 DK Audio

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© Sarah Lee
Farah Karim-Cooper is a Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe and a professor of literature and Shakespeare studies at King’s College London; she was president of the Shakespeare Association of America from 2021 to 2022 after serving three years on the board of trustees. The holder of an Oxford University TORCH Humanities Cultural Programme Fellowship, she was a visiting fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, from 2022 to 2023. She curated the Globe Theatre’s Shakespeare and Race festivals and its Anti-Racist Shakespeare webinar series. She is a general coeditor of the Folger Shakespeare Editions and the author of works on Shakespeare including Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama, The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage, and most recently Titus Andronicus: The State of Play. View titles by Farah Karim-Cooper

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