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  King Leir and His Three Daughters

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  King Leir is an anonymous Elizabethan play about the life of the ancient Celtic king Leir of Britain. It was published in 1605 but was entered into the Stationers' Register on 15 May 1594. The play has attracted critical attention principally for its relationship with King Lear, Shakespeare's version of the same story. (Summary by Wikipedia)CastKing Leir/Second Watchman/Narrator: Algy PugSkalliger: Caprisha PagePerillus: ToddThe Gallian King/First Watchman: Alan WeymanMumford: David WarnerKing of Cornwall: Greg PrzywaraMorgan: Alan MapstoneServant/First Mariner: balaServant/Second Mariner/Second British Captain: Phil BensonMessenger: Martin GeesonAmbassador: Elizabeth KlettCaptain of the Watch/First British Captain: engineerdstGonorill: GraceRagan: Charlotte DuckettCordella: Libby GohnNobleman: Arielle LipshawAudio edited by Algy Pug

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  The Twelve Months

  George Ellis

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Twelve Months by George Ellis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 24th, 2010.

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  The Age of Phillis

  Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

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  “An arresting and meticulously researched collection of poems” about the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to publish a book in America (Ms. Magazine).   In 1773, a young African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry, Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). When Wheatley’s book appeared, her words would challenge Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Her words would astound many and irritate others, but one thing was clear: This young woman was extraordinary.  Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood with her parents in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters, and her untimely death at the age of about thirty-three. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's “age”—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley’s relationship to black people and their individual “mercies” is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history.

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  Christmas Roses

  Lizzie Lawson

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  A beautiful collection of pretty little poems. (Summary by Charlotte Duckett)

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  The Monster Trilogy

  RM Vaughan

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  Demons, ogres, werewolves – men have all the fun. Not here. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan's The Monster Trilogy turns the tables and offers up three monstrously evil women in three explosive monologues.
   
  In The Susan Smith Tapes, the infamous young mother who drowned her three sons tries to recapture the public's attention by auditioning for talk shows from her prison cell. In A Visitation by Saint Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance, we meet a middle-aged police officer whose world view is warped by her obsession with race, bloodlines and genetic determinism. And Dead Teenagers introduces us to the Reverend, a frustrated cleric unhealthily addicted to the spectacle of large funerals for murdered children.
   
  These monologues – all performed at Rhubarb! festivals and all critically acclaimed – create a vivid triptych that considers the notion of monstrosity from three very distinct perspectives.
   
  'RM Vaughan writes like a sailor with a PhD and a broken heart.' – Daniel MacIvor

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  Poets of the 19th Century The -...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt...

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  This is a Century for the history books.  The Chinese curse of living in interesting times could not be more suited. 
   
  A small island continued its expansion across the globe bringing both good and evil in its march. Empires clashed. Revolution shook many. The Industrial Age was upon us. 
   
  Poets spoke up against slavery bringing social and political pressure upon an abominable horror. It was also the Age of the Romantics; Shelley, Keats, Byron lyrically rapture.  Tennyson, Arnold, Browning rode a century of sweeping change of dynamism and great verse.

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