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  MERCHANT OF VENICE THE -...

  William Shakespeare, David Serero

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  THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare. Adapted by and Starring David Serero as Shylock. Off-Broadway Studio Cast Album Recording 2015.

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  Damon Runyon Theater - A Story...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into a black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Madame Ovary (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rosa Hesmondhalgh

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  Madame Ovary by Rosa Hesmondhalgh tells the heartbreaking and hilarious true story of Rosa's own ovarian cancer. This five-star sell-out Edinburgh hit is a life-affirming monologue exploring the typical struggles of staying relevant, with the less typical struggles of staying alive.
  This play is taken from Plays from VAULT 5, an anthology, the fifth from Nick Hern Books, comprising of five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2020, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.

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  Fifty Shades of July - 50 of the...

  Walt Whitman, William Blake,...

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  The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer.  Temperatures rise still further.  The landscape may wilt under oppressive heat but is still a spectacle of colour and structure that only Mother Nature has the resources for. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of July - An Introduction 
  2 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  3 - An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon 
  4 - I Saw England - July Night by Ivor Gurney 
  5 - A Soldiers Cemetery by John William Streets (Killed and Missing in Action on 1st July 1916 Aged 31) 
  6 - July 2nd 1863 by Tom Reynolds 
  7 - Fourth of July by Julia A Moore 
  8 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell 
  9 - America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 by James Bayard Taylor 
  10 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen 
  11 - Ode For the 4th of July by James Monroe Whitfield 
  12 - Ode For July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  13 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling 
  14 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  15 - St Martin's Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley 
  17 - In This Summer by Daniel Sheehan 
  18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  19 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 
  20 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  21 - The Sweets of the Rose  by Hafiz 
  22 - The Rose by John Cournos 
  23 - The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats 
  24 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
  25 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
  26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats 
  27 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
  29 - Clouds by Mirabai 
  30 - Breton Afternoon by Ernest Christopher Dowson 
  31 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  32 - How the Old Mountains Drip With Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  34 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  35 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan 
  36 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle 
  37 - On My Sons Return Out of England July 17th 1661 by Anne Bradstreet 
  38 - Sonnet July 18th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  39 - Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 18th 1666 by Anne Bradstreet 
  40 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers 
  41 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - The School Boy by William Blake 
  43 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson 
  44 - Towser, a True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  45 - Summer Dawn by William Morris 
  46 - Summer by Alexander Pope 
  47 - A Night Rain in Summer by James Henry Leigh Hunt 
  48 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - Sonnet at Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  50 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay 
  51 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

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  Viking Tales

  Jennie Hall

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  A teacher in Chicago at the beginning of the last century, Jennie Hall wrote a number of engaging history books for children. Viking Tales follows the story of Harald Fairhair from the time he is given his own thrall at the cutting of his first tooth, through his exploits as a Viking adventurer, to his crowning as King of Norway. Jennie Hall (1875 - 1921)

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  Chicken Shop (NHB Modern Plays)

  Anna Jordan

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  A dark and twisted coming-of-age story by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen.
  Hendrix is growing up. Or at least he's trying to. But he's sick of his mother and her constant preaching on the virtues of an organic lifestyle. And he's sick of her girlfriend, a twentysomething stunner who winds him up relentlessly. But most of all he is sick of the bullies at school who target him viciously, thinking if his mum is gay then he must be too.
  In a desperate attempt to prove his masculinity, Hendrix enters a very adult world and gets far more than he bargained for. He meets Luminita - a young girl enslaved into an unbearable life. She finds comfort in Hendrix; a chance to connect, to be seen as a human being. Though from completely different worlds, their secret friendship grows in snatched moments in a sordid room above a Chicken Shop.

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