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  Fifty Shades of Marriage - 50 of...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rainer...

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  ‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its hopes and dreams on a love-strewn path to the future, even eternity.  From here life has its own way of changing, modifying and disrupting the true course of married love for many of us.  In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets delve with storied verse into every facet of this institution.  From the good, the bad and even the ugly, from the Wedding day to the realisation that divorce and separation maybe the better path.  Between these two frontiers other avenues and facets are explored by the pens of many including Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Emily Dickinson and the Rossetti’s. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Marriage - An Introduction 
  02 - The Weddiing Morning by Francis Ledwidge 
  03 - Marriage Morning by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  04 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  05 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit 
  06 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi 
  07 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 
  08 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell 
  09 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson 
  10 - The Bride by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  11 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 
  12 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  13 - To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage by Katherine Phillips 
  14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  15 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 
  16 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare 
  17 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh 
  18 - Sonnet to My Wife by Thomas Hood 
  19 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  20 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
  21 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  22 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  23 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  24 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 
  25 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 
  26 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  27 - The Bride by Henry Alford 
  28 - Bridal Birth by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  29 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 
  30 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones 
  31 - Song XIX. Since We Your Husband Daily See by Matthew Prior 
  32 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore.sfk 
  32 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore 
  33 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay.sfk 
  33 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  34 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper.sfk 
  34 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper 
  35 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce.sfk 
  35 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce 
  36 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  37 - June, a Tale by William Cowper 
  38 - Witch-Wife by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  39 - The Bride by Ambrose Bierce 
  40 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 
  41 - The Bridal Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe 
  42 - The Wife of Flanders by G K Chesterton 
  43 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  44 - A Cry from an Indian Wife by Emily Pauline Johnson 
  45 - Wife to Husband by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  46 - The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier September the 27th 1868 by Sidney Lanier 
  47 - On His Deceased Wife by John Milton 
  48 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron.sfk 
  48 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
  49 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford 
  50 - Modern Love I by George Meredith 
  51 - Divorce by Anna Wickham

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  Anna Karenina (NHB Modern Plays)

  Helen Edmundson

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  Helen Edmundson's celebrated and 'exemplary adaptation' (The Times) of Leo Tolstoy's enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love.
  Anna is beautiful and admired but empty - until a chance meeting throws her into emotional turmoil and a scandalous affair. Contrasting with this tale of destructive love is the story of Levin, an idealistic man striving to find meaning in life - and a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.
  Originally produced by Shared Experience, winning the Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992. This edition was published alongside a revival of the play at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2011.
  'Theatre this engrossing is rare' - Time Out
  'The aim is not to report the novel but to recreate it as a piece of theatre... a dramatisation which is symbolically accurate as well as theatrically compelling' - Guardian

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  A Piece of Good News - Poems

  Katie Peterson

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  A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet.In those days I began to see light under everybushel basket, light nearly splittingthe sides of the bushel basket. Light camethrough the rafters of the dairy where the gracklescongregated like well-taxed citizensuntransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the oneunderneath the basket. I was certain I had nothing to say. When I grew restless in the interior,the exterior gave. 
  Dense, rich, and challenging, Katie Peterson's A Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure, and shelter. Imbued with a hallucinatory poetic logic where desire, anger, and sorrow supplant intelligence and reason, these poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship, and happiness. Learned, wise, and witty, Peterson explodes the possibilities of the poetic voice in this remarkable and deeply felt collection.

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  Henry VIII

  William Shakespeare

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  This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the giant monarch storms through his midlife crisis, disposing of the faithful Katharine of Aragon and starting a new life and, the king hopes, a line of succession with the captivating young Anne Bullen. Unlike his predecessors, Henry has no doubt about the security of his tenure on the throne, and dominates the royal court with absolute authority. The play has a surprising modern flavour: there is even a set of "Royal watchers" - the three gossipy gentlemen!

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  The Awful Truth - Hollywood Stage

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's The Awful Truth starring Cary Grant & Claudette Colbert.

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  Teenage Dick (NHB Modern Plays)

  Mike Lew

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  A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power, Teenage Dick reimagines the most famous disabled character of all time as a high-school outsider in junior year: the deepest winter of his discontent.
  Picked on because of his disability (as well as his sometimes creepily Shakespearean way of speaking), Richard is determined to have his revenge and make his name by becoming president of the senior class. But like all teenagers, and all despots, he is faced with the hardest question of all: is it better to be loved, or feared?
  Mike Lew's play Teenage Dick was commissioned and developed by The Apothetae, a company dedicated to plays that explore and illuminate the 'Disabled Experience'. It was first performed by Ma-Yi Theater Company at the Public Theater, New York, in 2018, and received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in December 2019, directed by Artistic Director Michael Longhurst.

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