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  Timons of Athens

  William Shakespeare

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  William Squire, Corin Redgrave, Derek Jacobi and Trevor Nunn perform Shakespeare's play about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon

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  Snuff (NHB Modern Plays)

  Dave Anderson

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  Back from Iraq, Billy is in no mood for games. But Kevin is not just playing...
  Anderson wrote and directed his own play as part of the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh's 2005 Festival programme, for which he won the Arches Award for Stage Directors.

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  Glitter Punch (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lucy Burke

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  A gritty, coming-of-age drama about first love.
  Critically acclaimed during its run at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Lucy Burke's Glitter Punch – set in Greater Manchester – charts a troubling new relationship between mysterious John and sixteen-year-old Molly, a love that will change their lives forever.
  Glitter Punch was performed as part of the 2018 VAULT Festival, London, and is also available in the collection Plays from VAULT 3.

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  Treasury of Victorian Poetry The...

  Robert Browning, Lord Alfred...

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  A collection of the greatest poetry from the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors. 
  Science, religion, and sexuality are played out in these timeless readings of poetry written during the Romantic period. 
  Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Peter Orr; Gwen Watford; and David King. 
  This collection includes poems from: 
  • Robert Browning 
  • Lord Alfred Tennyson 
  • Christina Rossetti 
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  • Paul Edmonds 
  • Matthew Arnold 
  • Haldreyn (William Morris) 
  • Arthur Hugh Clough

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  Songbook - The Lyrics and Music...

  Steven Heighton

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  From the award-winning, multi-genre author and musician Steven Heighton, Songbook brings together Heighton’s lyrics and music for the first time in a single volume, including his final songs, which have never been heard or seen until now. When Steven Heighton died suddenly of cancer in 2022, he was in the middle of an intensely creative period of songwriting. He released his first album of original material, The Devil’s Share, in 2021 and was preparing to record his second album. Known first as a poet, Heighton had always held that “music and poetry are two words for the same thing.”
  		 
  As in his songwriting, in Songbook, Heighton moves fluidly between genres and subjects, from political songs like “The Butcher’s Bill,” about the carelessness of nations sending their youth to war, to reimagining the myth of Orpheus (“I'll hold my breath the whole way down / And find your soul in the undertown”), to blues tunes like “Last Living Woman Alive,” and a tribute to the late John Prine, the “Buddha of Song.” With chords accompanying the lyrics, readers and musicians have the ability to bring the songs to life with their own interpretations. The music in Songbook was the final work of Heighton’s life, and it is not only a gift to have his lyrics and chords but an invitation from Heighton himself, challenging his readers to answer the call and keep singing along.

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  The Royal Game - A Chess Story

  Stefan Zweig

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  The fame of the "The Royal Game" is evident in the number of translations. The last work of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig can be read today in over 60 languages. The first translation into English appeared in New York in 1944. In Germany, the book has become a constant bestseller. The first-person narrator learns of the presence of the world chess champion Mirko Czentovic on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires. Together with his acquaintance Mc Connor and other chess players, the first-person narrator manages to challenge the world champion to a game of chess. 
  As expected, Mc Connor and the others clearly lose the first game. In the second game, the only way they can get is with the help of a strange man who later turns himself into Dr. B imagines preventing an embarrassing defeat at the last moment and getting a draw. Fascinated by the talent of Dr. B's, the first-person narrator asks him to take on Czentovic. Dr. B. agrees. During the conversation, Dr. B. under what tragic circumstances he started playing chess. 
  This narration is based on the English translation of the novel, which was created in 2020 by Philip Knueppel for Aureon Verlag GmbH.

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