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Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and animal fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is among the finest Jacobean comedies.
This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy, which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Hervey Allen, who later wrote Anthony Adverse, met Heyward after moving to Charleston to teach. Together they founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which is still active today. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)Ver libro
Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who is best known for her What Katy Did series. This is the first of three volumes of her verse. (Summary by Rachel)Ver libro
Birds and All Nature was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature." - Summary by J. M. SmallheerVer libro
A devastating new play about loss and families, by Deirdre Kinahan, one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights. What does it feel like to lose everything? To explain? What does it take to forgive the unforgivable? In small-town Ireland, father-of-one Conor is desperate to hold on to a life that is disintegrating before his eyes. Susan is a mother searching for reason in the darkness of her teenage daughter's killing. When they finally meet, a contemporary tragedy comes to light. Spinning was first performed by Fishamble: The New Play Company as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2014.Ver libro
Late night taxis, teen discos, home nurses, Jewish launderettes, vigilantes, babies, immigrants, seagulls. Citysong is a play, a poem and a chorus of voices showing three generations of a Dublin family on one day. Intimate and sweeping, joyous and ridiculous, it's the modern-day Dublin's Under Milk Wood via Metamorphoses (not the book about the cockroach). It's different things at different times, which makes sense seeing as it's about change. Dylan Coburn Gray's play Citysong, winner of the 2017 Verity Bargate Award, premieres at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in May 2019 before transferring to Soho Theatre, London. This edition also contains the plays Boys and Girls, which won the Fishamble Best New Writing Prize at the Dublin Fringe and was nominated for the Stewart Parker Prize, and Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane.Ver libro
Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he himself will become king. Fired by ambition and goaded by his ruthless wife, he murders Duncan and assumes the throne. More killings follow as Macbeth attempts to retain his crown, until he discovers that prophecies are not always what they seem. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) Cast: Duncan – Joshua B. ChristensenMalcolm – mbDonalbain – Ellis ChristoffMacbeth – Mark F. SmithBanquo – Simon LaroisMacduff – John LiederLennox – MirzaRoss – Rosalind WillsMenteith, Son of Macduff, and First Apparition – David LawrenceAngus, Second Apparition, and Third Murderer – Annoying TwitCaithness, Lord, Sergeant, and Soldiers – David NicolFleance – Aaron ElliottSiward – Brian EdwardsYoung Siward, Gentlewoman – Laurie Anne WaldenSeyton, Old Man – Paul WilliamsLady Macbeth – Elizabeth KlettLady Macduff – LCHecate – Ruth GoldingFirst Witch – Jennifer StearnsSecond Witch – Kristin HughesThird Witch – Charlene V. SmithDoctor – Eric M. JohnsonServant and Attendant – Anna SimonPorter – David LeesonThird Apparition – Fionn JamesonFirst Murderer – hefydSecond Murderer – Anna RobertsMessenger – EzwaStage Directions – J. M. Smallheer Audio edited by J. M. SmallheerVer libro
