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  Love's Labour's Lost

  William Shakespeare

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  This new edition of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost presents a highly readable text of the play based on the first quarto of 1598. A thorough but concise critical commentary and a comprehensive introduction illuminate the significant elements of the play, its remarkable use of language, and its performance history.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Stephen Crane, Edna St. Vincent...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - 01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Geographical Features - An Introduction 
  2 - On the Desert by Stephen Crane 
  3 - Mist In The Valley by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  4 - The Lake Isle of Inisfree by William Butler Yeats 
  5 - The River and Its Waves Are One by Kabir 
  6 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  7 - In the Forest by Sarojini Naidu 
  8 - Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  9 - The Waterfall by Henry Vaughan 
  10 - Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville 
  11 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
  12 - Alone Looking at the Mountain by Li Po 
  13 - How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson

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  The Crown Jewels (NHB Modern Plays)

  Simon Nye

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  It's 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing – in plain sight – the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
  With an audacious plan and a gang of misfits by his side, can he possibly pull it off? And is King Charles II in any mood to have his crown jewels handled?
  Based on the scarcely believable true story, Simon Nye's play The Crown Jewels is a riotous and uproarious royal affair. It opened at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End in 2023 before touring, and was directed by Sean Foley with a star-studded cast including Al Murray, Mel Giedroyc, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Aidan McArdle, Neil Morrissey, Joe Thomas and Tanvi Virmani.
  It will appeal to any amateur theatre company – monarchists and republicans alike – who want to get their hands on a royally funny caper to perform.

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  Hedda Tesman (NHB Modern Plays)

  Henrik Ibsen, Cordelia Lynn

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  A doting husband. A troubled writer. A loaded gun. It's 2019 and Hedda Tesman returns to a life she can't seem to escape from.
  After thirty years of playing wife, Hedda is bitter and bored. When her estranged daughter, Thea, suddenly reappears asking for help, the present begins to echo the past and Hedda embarks on a path of destruction.
  Hedda Tesman, by Cordelia Lynn, breathes new life into Henrik Ibsen's classic, asking what we inherit, what we endure and how we carry our history. A vital exploration of motherhood, power and sabotage, the play was produced by Headlong and premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2019, before transferring to The Lowry, Salford.

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  Prometheus Bound (Browning...

  Aeschylus

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  Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces that rule the Universe.  As one of the most compelling rebel manifestos ever composed, it has appealed not only to the expected host of scholars of Greek drama, but also to a fascinatingly free-spirited array of translators, especially since the early 19th century; Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, and activist-poet Augusta Webster are among those who have tried their poetic and linguistic powers at rendering it into English.  Elizabeth Barrett Browning published not one but two completely different translations of it, the first in 1833 when she was twenty-seven years old and the second eighteen years later.  It is this second, far greater, translation presented here. - Summary by Expatriate

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  Vindication - poems from six women

  Cherry Potts

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  The third of our #WomenVote100 Anthologies:a showcase for poets Arachne has previously published in anthologies, giving an opportunity to explore their writing in greater depth.
  
  These are poems made of myth and family, origins and anger, journeys and home: witty, clever, beautiful and sometimes harsh.
  
  Whilst not directly reflecting on the experience of women fighting for the vote, the concerns of
  
  women are foremost and are passionately addressed.
  
  My own sex, I hope, will excuse me,
  
  if I treat them like rational creatures,
  
  instead of flattering their fascinating
  
  graces, as if they were in perpetual
  
  childhood, unable to stand alone.
  
  From Vindication by Anne Macaulay, a found poem based on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft.

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