Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival audiobook runs 9.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 58% of the 3,272 Europe audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Edoardo Ballerini narrates 448 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,500 hours in all.
About as long, on the Europe shelf
402 Europe audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival is an audiobook by Stephen Greenblatt: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Edoardo Ballerini, released September 9, 2025, on the Europe and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Edoardo Ballerini
- Released
- September 9, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Europe, Biography & Memoir, Literature
- ISBN
- 9798897568178
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How long is the Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival audiobook?
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
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Who narrates Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival?
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival is narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.