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  Priest and His Disciples (Shaw...

  Hyakuzo Kurata

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  At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzo wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" ("Shukke to sono deshi").  This stage play is based on the life and teachings of the 13th century Buddhist priest Shinran (1173-1263) and quickly became immensely popular.  Shinran, the historical founder of the True Pure Land School of Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu), encounters the poor family of Hino Saemon and his wife Okane, and converses with them about how to live in circumstances of change and turmoil and hardship.  Most of the ideas represented as Shinran's are really Kurata's own philosophies, an amalgam of Eastern and Western ideas adapted by his own iconoclastic spirit to the tumultuous times of early twentieth-century Japan. - Summary by Expatriate

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  5 11 (NHB Modern Plays)

  Edward Kemp

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  An epic and incendiary thriller about the Gunpowder Plot, weaving together the lives of kings, terrorists, priests and spies.
  It's 1605, and England is riven between Catholic and Protestant. An aristocratic group of young religious fanatics has recruited a mercenary, Guy Fawkes, to strike at the heart of the English Government. But under the ambivalent rule of the new King, James I, fresh from Scotland, no one can be trusted and their plot is going to be turned against the very people it was meant to save.
  'a big, bold, joltingly topical new play... explosive epic with echoes for today' - Daily Telegraph
  'spectacular, scary and painfully familiar' - The Times
  'a rich, exciting piece of narrative theatre' - Guardian

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  God Speaks Through Wombs - Poems...

  Drew Jackson

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  Christian Book Award Finalist
  But God speaks through wombs,
  
  birthing prophetic utterances. . . .
  
  Enough of this unbelieving religion
  
  that masquerades as faith.
  
  Divine favor is placed on what we
  
  have disgraced.
  In God Speaks Through Wombs, Drew Jackson explores the first eight chapters of Luke's Gospel in a new poetic register. These are declarative poems, faithfully proclaiming the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible."
  From the Magnificat ("That girl can sing! . . . She has a voice / That can shatter shackles") to the baptism of Christ ("I stepped in / Committing insurrection"), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance—against all hope—that's been in the gospel all along.

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  Pro Patria

  Julia Caroline Dorr

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  This is a collection of seven patriotic long poems by Julia Caroline Dorr.  - Summary by Carolin

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  Evening

  Archibald Lampman

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of Evening by Archibald Lampman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 3rd, 2008.

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  Don Juan Canto 1

  Lord Byron

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  Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventually) seventeen Cantos composed during Byron's self-imposed exile from England appeared, anonymously, in July 1819 and were greeted with scandal, condemnation, admiration and hilarity. Modern critics generally consider the self-proclamed 'epic', which remained incomplete at Byron's death, to be his masterpiece. (Summary by Peter Gallagher).

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