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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare.    It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.    The play consists of four interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon.    The play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistant to her father Egeus' demand that she wed Demetrius, whom he has arranged for her to marry. Helena meanwhile pines unrequitedly for Demetrius. Enraged, Egeus invokes an ancient Athenian law before Duke Theseus, whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death. Theseus offers her another choice: lifelong chastity while worshipping the goddess Artemis as a nun.    Peter Quince and his fellow players Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Robin Starveling, Tom Snout, and Snug plan to put on a play for the wedding of the Duke and the Queen, "the most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe". Quince reads the names of characters and bestows them to the players. Nick Bottom, who is playing the main role of Pyramus, is over-enthusiastic and wants to dominate others by suggesting himself for the characters of Thisbe, the Lion, and Pyramus at the same time. He would also rather be a tyrant and recites some lines of Ercles. Bottom is told by Quince that he would do the Lion so terribly as to frighten the duchess and ladies enough for the Duke and Lords to have the players hanged. Quince ends the meeting with "at the Duke's oak we meet."

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  Love's Labour's Lost

  William Shakespeare

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  A vintage performance of Shakespeare's comedy.

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  Decline of the Animal Kingdom

  Laura Clarke

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  Decline of the Animal Kingdom investigates modern constructs of domesticity, freedom, wilderness, and artificiality to paint a portrait of what it means to be human, animal, or both in a society saturated with dog boutiques, trophy hunting, retro taxidermy, and eco-tourism. With brief forays into Algonquin Park and the heart of the 1980s jungle, the book largely draws its energy from the urban landscape, where the animals that interact with the environment have permanent effects on the land and human psyche. A wild deer wanders into the downtown core; the Galapagos and the ethics of conservation invade our Xbox; a mule grows weary of his unrewarding office job and unfulfilling relationships.
  Exploring the victories and defeats of an urban existence complete with 9-5 office angst, the claustrophobia of domestic partnerships in bachelor apartments, and party-and-pick-up culture, Decline of the Animal Kingdom is Laura Clarke’s love letter to the city of Toronto, and to extinct animals and office misfits alike.

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  For colored girls who have...

  Ntozake Shange

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  The “extraordinary and wonderful” award-winning play in a new edition featuring an additional poem, production photos, and an introduction by Jesmyn Ward (The New York Times). 
   
  From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century—and they continue to ring true in the 21st. 
   
  First published in 1975, it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had”. This new edition celebrates the play’s enduring legacy with introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. It also features a poem not previously included in the text, and a selection of photos capturing the play’s evolution and reinvention.

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  The Tempest

  William Shakespeare

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  Experience this InAudio unabridged presentation of The Tempest by William Shakespeare.The Tempest is a beautiful and sweeping drama by William Shakespeare, and is one of the Bard’s last plays. With a role written as a farewell to the theater, this emotional drama is a beautiful testament to Shakespeare’s talents as a storyteller and writer. The play centers around Prospero, a usurped ruler and powerful sorcerer who lives out his days on a remote island with little humans to interact with. Prospero seeks his revenge on his brother by causing his ship to wreck on his island, and the adventure of the play begins. The story contains many of Shakespeare’s favorite tropes: magical and devilish spirits, a passionate and exciting romance, and a powerful look at the results of seeking justice and vengeance–all wrapped up in beautiful poetry, such as a soliloquy that doubles as Shakespeare’s ode to his own career.

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  The Poetry of Dogs

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning,...

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  Man’s best friend. An always faithful ally. 
   
  Whether the dog is domesticated as a pet and there to enjoy life with a family or as a work-dog herding sheep, helping to hunt, police or guard, the dog has proved time and time again to have many invaluable uses.   
   
  They come in all shapes and sizes from sought after breeds to lowly mongrels each with an array of qualities that give them distinct personalities.   
   
  From earliest times dogs have been able to find a unique place fulfilling the needs of their keepers and often there is equal devotion from master to servant.  A dog’s life no longer has to have negative connotations as so many pooches are loved, extravagantly fed, groomed, petted and pawed over, all perhaps more than our fellow man.   
   
  Dogs were even worshipped as deities in Mesopotamian times and across several cultures and civilisations including Hindu, Chinese and Greek, they are the helpers, the watchers or guardians of sacred or sensitive sites.  
   
  Between then and now poets have written verse, both serious and humorous, in attempts to keep a poetic track both of feelings and as a tribute to our four-legged friends and their adventures. 
  1 - The Poetry of Dogs - An Introduction 
  2 - A Friendly Welcome by Lord Byron 
  3 - A Popular Personage At Home by Thomas Hardy 
  4 - The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kiping 
  5 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker 
  6 - The Best Friend by Meribah Abbott 
  7 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest 
  8 - Dog by Harold Munro 
  9 - My Comforter by Anonymous 
  10 - Four Feet. 'The Woman in His Life' by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - The Dog and His Master by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  12 - Little Lost Pup by Arthur Guiterman 
  13 - A Little Dog That Wags His Tail by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith 
  15 - Dogs and Weather by Winifred Welles 
  16 - Incident. Charactristic of a Favourite Dog Which Belonged to a Friend of the Author by William Wordsworth 
  17 - Confessions of a Glutton by Don Marquis 
  18 - The Fable of the Shepherd and Wolf by John Gay 
  19 - On a Spaniel Called 'Beau', Killing a Young Bird by William Cowper 
  20 - Beau's Reply by William Cowper 
  21 - Contentment by Burges Johnson wav 
  22 - The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Anonymous 
  23 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field 
  24 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman 
  25 - Tray by Robert Browning 
  26 - The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable by William Cowper 
  27 - The Irish Greyhound by Katherine Phillips 
  28 - The Fable of the Mastiff by John Gay 
  29 - The Dog in the Manger by Aphra Behn 
  30 - Towser, A True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  31 - The Dog of St Bernard's by Caroline Fry Wilson 
  32 - Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  33 - Tobias's Dog by Mary Howitt 
  34 - I Started Early – Took my Dog  by Emily Dickinson 
  35 - Canis Major by Robert Frost 
  36 - Man and Dog by Edward Thomas 
  37 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  38 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky 
  39 - The Dogs by Arthur Symons 
  40 - To a Black Greyhound by Julian Grenfell 
  41 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 
  42 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson 
  43 - Upon His Spaniel Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  44 - To Rollo by Kenneth Grahame 
  45 - Ruby by Edward Lear 
  46 - To Flush, My Dog by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  47 - Kaiser Dead by Matthew Arnold 
  48 - Epitaph to a Dog by Lord Byron 
  49 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy

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