Mark Kennedy, Associated Press
May 20, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The hero of a new audiobook is introduced as he lies in bed, trying to sleep on a frigid day in 1601.
He’s the heir to the Danish throne, a tall handsome man of 27 with “a pale, finely chiseled face” and “mournful eyes that were the pale gray-blue of the sea in autumn.”
“To hell with the throne,” the young man says, pulling the sheets over his head when a court jester comes to awaken him. “I want to sleep. Forever.”
Not familiar with this guy? You should be. His name is Hamlet.
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller of downloadable audiobooks, has followed the success of their recent novelization of “Macbeth” with a new thriller about the moody prince of Elsinore.
“Hamlet: Prince of Denmark,” co-written by Shakespeare expert and novelist A. J. Hartley and British mystery writer David Hewson, was released Tuesday, narrated by “The Hobbit” actor Richard Armitage. […continued]
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