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  Triptych and Iphigenia - Two Plays

  Edna O'Brien

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  Two plays by the acclaimed Irish author: an adaption of Euripides and an “emotionally bruising drama” of three women obsessed with the same man (The New York Times). 
   
  Triptych 
   
  With searing acuity, O’Brien presents the story of three women—a mistress, a wife, and a daughter—who are all helplessly drawn to Henry: their lover, husband, and father. While Henry himself never appears, his specter is never absent as these women confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and entrap. Triptych is a powerful work that explores sex, marriage, and predatory relationships. 
   
  Iphigenia 
   
  In this modern take on the Greek tragedy, O’Brien takes creative license with Euripides’s tale of a daughter sacrificed for the sake of war. This taut, contemporary version presents, in O’Brien’s own words, “a more equal representation of the power and presence of both male and female characters” (Edna O’Brien, Independent, UK). 
   
  “Intriguingly original . . . emotionally brave and engagingly clever.” –R. Hurwitt, The San Francisco Chronicle

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  Enough (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stef Smith

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  Jane and Toni are immaculate, iconic, accommodating flight attendants. They're here for your safety, your comfort and your pleasure. Or so you think. But 30,000 feet below them their seemingly perfect lives are rapidly unravelling.
  In the sky, over the sea and in cheap hotel rooms around the world, they can feel the ground shake beneath them. Something is rising up, something which cannot be ignored. And it's calling out for them. If they're going to survive what's coming, something needs to change.
  Poetic, unpredictable and explosive, Stef Smith's play Enough is a fragmentary and intense journey into female friendship, and unearths what happens when you can no longer be the woman people want.
  Enough premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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  Not Yet my Soul

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Not Yet my Soul by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2013.Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.The following poem comes from his collection entitled Underwoods, first published in 1887.

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  A Summer's Afternoon

  Benjamin King

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  As the summer days wind down, LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of A Summer’s Afternoon by Benjamin King. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 29th, 2007.

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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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  The Song Against Songs

  G.K. Chesterton

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 16, 2011.Chesterton was a large man, standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighing around 21 stone (130 kg; 290 lb). His girth gave rise to a famous anecdote. During World War I a lady in London asked why he was not 'out at the Front'; he replied, 'If you go round to the side, you will see that I am.' On another occasion he remarked to his friend George Bernard Shaw: "To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England". Shaw retorted, "To look at you, anyone would think you have caused it". P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud crash as "a sound like Chesterton falling onto a sheet of tin."( Summary from Wikipedia )

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