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The Tragic History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus
- De: Christopher Marlowe
- Narrado por: Frank Silvera
- Duración: 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Christopher Marlow's play based on the Faust story of a man selling his soul to the devil, has fascinated and divided critics throughout the ages since its first performance in Elizabethan England. The central character's thirst for knowledge and power throws up essential questions of morality, life and death. Compulsive listening as this exceptionally brilliant play of verse and prose is finely executed by Frank Silvera and cast.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great value on a rare recording
- De Sean en 06-02-09
Great value on a rare recording
Revisado: 06-02-09
Don't be fooled: this recording is not complete, however much it may be unabridged from an earlier recording. Amongst other things, everything dealing with Cornelius and Valdes is cut, as is the Horse-courser episode. Oddly, Faustus's long and, to a modern audience, incomprehensible Latin incantation, is retained. As a result of the cuts, Faustus is neither shown needing help to master magic, nor wasting his powers on stupid tricks. In fairness to Audible, this recording seems merely to follow the cuts made in the original recording, for cassette tape, I believe. Moreover, the text of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is famously complex. This particular version seems to follow the B-text, but cuts all of the comic episodes unique to it.
The source is evident in a distinct background hum, though the actors are very precise, in the manner of an older generation of classical actors, so their voices remain easy to understand. I particularly appreciated Mephistopheles's irony. Faustus's misplaced confidence and mounting desperation recalls Richard Burton's film version.
On the other hand, I think a lot is lost by reducing the parade of deadly sins to an audio format, especially when Faustus clearly says that he wants to see them, and the interruption of the Pope's dinner is also hard to follow in an audio format.
Nevertheless, I'm grateful to Audible for making this recording available, and hope they track down more Elizabethan and Jacobean drama other than Shakespeare. The price is extraordinary, and the recording is a very good value.
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Learn in Your Car: French, Level 3
- De: Henry N. Raymond, William A. Frame
- Narrado por: uncredited
- Duración: 3 h y 39 m
- Grabación Original
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 4
The Learn in Your Car language series is the first system ever designed to teach a language in your car...or anywhere...without a textbook. And now with Learn in Your Car from audible.com, you can turn your PC, your Rio, or any mobile device into your own personal language tutor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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terrific!
- De Donald en 05-23-04
- Learn in Your Car: French, Level 3
- De: Henry N. Raymond, William A. Frame
- Narrado por: uncredited
Very useful
Revisado: 06-30-06
I'm finding this very useful. I listen to it on my digital music player while running, and on CDs on my commute to work. This means that I repeat everything relentlessly, but since it's an all-audio system, that's possible.
Occasionally I have to look something up, either on about.com (which has an excellent French site) or in some sort of grammar text, but on the whole, it really is all-audio.
That said, I have the advantage of having worked on learning the language for some time, being married to a native speaker and occasionally visiting my unilingual in-laws. The recording provides a really useful supplement, however, since it allows me to practice parts of speech and structures that don't always come up in conversation, or at least not for five straight minutes.
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