King Lear (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

This Audiofy audiobook chip packs a three hour performance of "King Lear" by the Stratford company on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... King Lear is generally regarded as one of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. It is believed to have been written in 1605 and is based on the legend of King Leir, a king of pre-Roman Britain. His story had already been told in chronicles, poems and sermons, as well as on the stage, when Shakespeare undertook the task of retelling it. This title (and all others in this series) are produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which has been doing critically acclaimed radio adaptations of Shakespeare plays since the 1930s. The plays in this series have been adapted for audio by some of North America's finest playwrights. This recording, originally a CBC broadcast, has been digitally remastered, using state-of-the-art technology. The various cast members who appear in this Shakespeare series are veterans of the Stratford, Ontario. Shakespeare Festival. Shakespeare lovers from all over the world regularly attend this festival, which is arguably the finest of its kind in the world.