The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: The Marlowe Society

This full-cast dramatization is performed by The Marlowe Society.©2009 Saland Publishing (P)2009 Saland Publishing

The horns at the chapter breaks are no joke

I fell asleep listening to this on head-phones, there are horns that play at the beginning of each chapter, when they went off it was like a bugler playing "Reveille" and it was being piped directly into my brain. I rolled off the bed onto the floor and started morning P.T.... it's been a long time since I've been near anything like that in 40 years - those horns reached deep into my walled off / medically boosted / shielded sleep cycle and woke my ass up good. (You see, normally i'd be sleeping now, but for some reason, right now, I'm wide awake and jacked up on adrenaline). They were loud, distracting an will wake you out of a NyQuil induced nap / coma and is one of the main reasobs I'm returning this.

Also the actors were speaking so fast, it was like someone was trying to recite the play to me as they walked me to the front door as I was leaving a party. I had no idea who was who and what they are saying.

I also had to explain all that to my girlfriend. I scared the livin bejeebus out of her when I levitated about 6 inches of the bed when the second chapter horns sounded off

I hope there's a better version out there . There has to be, right? I mean, it's fn Shakespeare.