Literature Online now includes the Arkangel productions of Shakespeare’s plays.

The Arkangel production of audio plays brings together all of Shakespeare’s plays in fully dramatised recordings featuring many noted Royal Shakespeare Company actors. Noted performances include Simon Russell Beale as Hamlet, Joseph Fiennes as Romeo and Sir John Gielgud as Gower in Pericles. The series won the 2004 Audie Award from the Audio Publishers Association and has garnered wide praise with the New York Times describing the series as a "rhapsody of words, assembled for the ear".

Each of the 38 plays is available in full and unabridged form based on a modern authoritative edition and can be played on any mp3 compatible media player. To navigate to the complete list of audio plays simply click on the new Multimedia link in the left hand toolbar. Audio plays can be accessed at scene level and have been linked with the Full Text already available in Literature Online. With links from the Full Text of the plays to the audio versions it is possible to seamlessly listen to and read all of Shakespeare’s dramatic works.