Here is the full-cast production of Shakespeare's classic love story, fully dramatized from the complete text, and starring Michael Sheen as Romeo and Kate Beckinsale as Juliet.

二十歳の私が、高等学校の制帽をかぶり紺絣の着物に袴をはき学生カバンを肩に、高下駄をはき天城の坂道を登って行った。私の期待通り、その峠の茶屋で旅芸人の一行が休んでいた。私は「下田まで一緒に旅をしたい」と思い切って言った。

The collection contains eight of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies. Each exhibits the vigour, humour, and optimism of the young master before he turned to the gloom and bitterness of the great tragedies.

In "The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s eulogy for all that is buried after World War I, April promises a flowering. But as the world mourns the spirit of a bygone era, what future can emerge from the cold, dead, infertile ground? Doubt and fear grip the narrator, too, in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” - a self-examination of an anxious, overeducated man unable to act against feelings of paralyzing impotence.

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies. In writing this extraordinary play, Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly 2,000 years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity. This production features the voice of Anton Lesser as Hamlet along with a full cast.

Malone Dies is the first person monologue of Malone, an old man lying in bed and waiting to die. The tone is fiercely ironic, highly quotable, and because of its extravagance, also very comic. It catches the reality of old age in a way that is grimly convincing, cruel as humor so often is, and memorable because of Beckett's way with words. A master dramatist, Beckett's novels can be even more effective when heard, and especially when read by such a Beckett specialist as Sean Barrett.

Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a specter from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge. The young prince is driven to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation he finds himself in and to do his duty. Many others, including Hamlet's beloved, the innocent Ophelia, are swept up in his tragedy.

かわせみの女中お石に在所から縁談が持ち込まれた。東吾とるいの娘･千春は「お石が遠くの野老沢へ行ってしまう」といって川岸で泣いていた。一方お石の縁談を小耳に挟んだ大工の小源は梯子から落ちて大怪我を負ってしまう･･･（時代小説）

琵琶法師の語りによって全国に広まった物語を今、朗読であらためて語り継ぐ――

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。TVで映画でパチンコで、聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。 けれども意外と原作は知らない方のほうが多いのでは。なにせ第１作が発表されたのは昭和６年、第二次大戦より前のこと。 しかしご存じないはモッタイナイ。 司馬遼太郎が「叙述がすずやかで、すだれごしに上等な夏の料理をたべているような気がした」と評し、“大”政治家吉田茂も夢中になった、おもしろくも品格のある、テンポのよい語り口をお楽しみください。 銭形平次初登場の作品。岡っ引きの平次には大きすぎる、三代将軍・徳川家光を狙った暗殺者の捕物。老中の問題を平次得意の投げ銭で解決できるか？

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. Yet it is both a popular text to be studied at school and an enigma. The scene is a country road. There is a solitary tree. It is evening. Two tramp-like figures, Vladimir and Estragon, exchange words. Pull off boots. Munch a root vegetable. Two other curious characters enter. And a boy. Time passes. It is all strange yet familiar.

By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.

Written initially in French, later translated by the author into English, Molloy is the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett's trilogy. It was published shortly after WWII and marked a new, mature writing style, which was to dominate the remainder of his working life. Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer, Moran.

日本の文学史でも、指折りの短編小説の名手である芥川龍之介。多くの傑作を残し、その作品は平易な文体ながらも、その秀逸な言葉選びや、深くまで切り込んだ心理描写の生々しさも相俟って、読み手を瞬く間に作品世界に引き込みます。

「羅生門」
ある日の暮方の事である。一人の下人が、羅生門の下で雨が止むのを待っていた。彼は四五日前に主人に暇を出されていた。雨が止んだところで、彼に行き先は無かったのである。羅生門の楼の内には、噂に聞いた通り、幾つかの死骸が無造作に棄てられていたが、その中に蹲っている人間を見た。檜皮色の着物を着た、背の低い、痩やせた、白髪頭の、猿のような老婆であった。その老婆は、女性の死骸の首に両手をかけると、丁度、猿の親が猿の子の虱をとるように、その長い髪の毛を一本ずつ抜きはじめた。その様を見た下人は、悪を憎む心に駆られ、太刀に手をかけながら、大股に老婆の前へ歩みよった。老婆は、一目下人を見ると、まるで弩にでも弾かれたように、飛び上った。下人は、老婆が死骸につまずきながら、慌てふためいて逃げようとする行手を塞いで、こう罵った。
「おのれ、どこへ行く」……

「魔術」
私が友人を介して交際していたインド人のマティラム・ミスラは魔術の大家でもあったが、実際に彼が魔術を使ったところを見たことの無かった私は、約束を取り

At the heart of this tragic history is one of Shakespeare's most noble characters, the statesman Brutus, who is caught in a devastating conflict between private affection and public duty.

Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in the Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself? A conspiracy is hatched, one that will have fatal consequences not only for Caesar and the conspirators but for the future history of the ancient world.