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  Cheese Curd for Bait

  James McIntyre

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Cheese Curd for Bait by James McIntyre. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 23, 2012.James McIntyre, born in Scotland, came to Canada in 1841. He finally settled in Ingersoll (a town in central Ontario on the banks of the Thames River), the then-heart of Canadian dairy country.He was well loved in the community, from which he often received aid in hard times, due in part to his poesy and oratorical skills — he was called on to speak at every kind of social gathering in Ingersoll. The region seems to have inspired him, and it was in celebration of the proud history of Canada, the natural beauty and industry of the region, and especially its cheese, that the majority of his oeuvre was written. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedies...

  William Shakespeare

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  Laughter, happiness, romance, and just a bit of deception and intrigue – these are what make up Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Though Shakespeare is probably most well known for the dramatic tragedies that have defined the genre for centuries, his comedies are just as well beloved and performed in theaters across the globe.Shakespearean comedies are defined by their humorous writing, their satire, the often-tangled romances, disguises and deceptions, and a thoughtful “fool” who is often the bearer of the smartest lines in the plays. Most of the time, there is also at least one (or two, or three, or four) weddings that tie the entire plot together in a neat package just in the nick of time. These conventions are iconic in the genre, and are what gave Shakespeare’s comedies their place in the literary canon.This collection of the best of Shakespeare’s comedies includes:A Midsummer’s Night’s DreamThe Merchant of VeniceMuch Ado About NothingAs You Like ItTwelfth NightThe Tempest

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  Forever House (NHB Modern Plays)

  Glen Waldron

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  A darkly comic drama from an exciting new playwright.
  In three linked scenes, all set in the same terraced house, three ill-matched pairs search for a new beginning - but the past won't let any of them go without a struggle.
  Teenager Richard is plotting his escape to art college, just as lecturer Graham is settling in. Mum-to-be Laura has big plans for her forever home - if only Becci will sell it to her. And in the middle of the night, marine expert Mark has an unexpected visitor, a young woman with more than paddleworm samples on her mind...
  A story of buried secrets and new beginnings, Forever House is the debut play of West Country-born writer Glenn Waldron. It's a pitch-black comedy drama that asks the question: can you ever really start again?
  'Waldron has an exceptional ear for dialogue... every character rings with credibility' - Exeunt Magazine
  'a well-observed piece' - Whatsonstage.com

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  Shangri-La (NHB Modern Plays)

  Amy Ng

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  Bunny, a young woman from the officially designated 'Shangri-La' in the Himalayan foothills of China's Yunnan Province, has witnessed her family's livelihood destroyed by mass tourism. She dreams of escape as a globe-trotting photographer.
  But what happens when the only thing you have to sell is your culture? When the only way to free yourself is to betray your roots?
  In Shangri-La, her first full-length play, Amy Ng lays bare the contradictions and private pain of cultural tourism. The play premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2016.

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  Fifty Shades of June - 50 of the...

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara...

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  The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar heralds a new season – Summer.  Lengthening days, Sunshine days, Glorious days! 
   
  In this month our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events.  The weather may be warm or windy, showers, squalls and storms may momentarily darken skies with grey foreboding but Nature will soon be at work again on a palette of such bright and dazzling hues that the landscape is reborn again. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of June - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - June by Francis Ledwidge 
  4 - Verses to Her Highness, the Duchess, June 3rd 1665 by John Henry Dryden 
  5 - Sonnet LXII Off Ostend, June 11th 1837 by Henry Alford 
  6 - A Match by Algernon Swinburne 
  7 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  8 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  9 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats 
  10 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 
  11 - A Night in June by Alfred Austin 
  12 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  13 - Summer by Khalil Gibran 
  14 - Sonnet 13 -  Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  15 - A Summer Night by George William Russell 
  16 - June Night by Sara Teasdale 
  17 - A Night in June by James Edwin Campbell 
  18 - Dusk in June by Sara Teasdale 
  19 - All in June by William Henry Davies 
  20 - Bee by Emily Dickinson 
  21 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  22 - June by James Whitcomb Riley 
  23 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield 
  24 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare 
  25 - June, A Tale by William Cowper 
  26 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith 
  27 - To June by George MacDonald 
  28 - There is A June When Corn is Cut by Emily Dickinson 
  29 - Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh 
  30 - Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  31 - The Idlers Calender - Twelve Sonnets for the Months - June by Wilford Scawen Blunt 
  32 - The Human Seasons by John Keats 
  33 - Summer by Christina Rossetti 
  34 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  35 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane 
  36 - How Did the Rose by Hafiz 
  37 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  38 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 
  39 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  40 - Sonnet LVI Written at York on the Day of the Coronation of Queen Victoria June 28th, 1838 by Henry Alford 
  41 - Hymn For St John's Eve the 29th June by John Henry Dryden 
  42 - Hymn For the Dedication of Memorial Hall at Cambridge June 23rd 1874 by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  43 - To William Hayley Esq, June 29th 1793 by William Cowper 
  44 - June 14th by Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper 
  45 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 
  46 - Pleasure's Past by John Clare 
  47 - A Gleam of Sunshine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  48 - Sweet Empty Sky of June by Henry Vaughan 
  49 - June by William Cullen Bryant 
  50 - June at Woodruff by James Whitcomb Riley 
  51 - Angels of Sunderland, In Memoriam, June 16th 1893 by John Hartley

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  Arcadia

  Tom Stoppard

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  Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the year 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. The New York Times calls Arcadia: “Tom Stoppard’s richest, most ravishing comedy to date.  A play of wit, intellect, language, brio and emotion,” and The Royal Institution of Great Britain calls it: “the best science book ever written.”Includes an interview with Steven Strogatz, the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and  professor at the Cornell University School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Kate Burton as HannahMark Capri as ChaterJennifer Dundas as ThomasinaGregory Itzin as Bernard NightingaleDavid Manis as Cpt. BriceChristopher Neame as Noakes and JellabyPeter Paige as ValentineDarren Richardson as AugustusKate Steele as ChloeSerena Scott Thomas as Lady CroomDouglas Weston as SeptimusDirected by John Rubinstein. Recorded at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.Arcadia is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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