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  Drama - Pilot Episode

  Karen Hines

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  Dr. Penelope Douglas is an ex-forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a styling western boomtown, but on her first day practicing in her boutique suite, a young television writer hangs himself in her subway-tiled bathroom. A dissection of contemporary television drama through the eyes of the dead writer reveals to Penelope an unsettling connection between the forty-four-minute television hour and the disintegration of the human soul. But it isn’t until Penelope’s oil wife friend pronounces Penelope her unborn baby’s spiritual godmother that Dr. Douglas takes the dive into the uncharted waters of her own unconscious to break the spell that has the frontier in its filthy grip. Will Dr. Douglas be able to find heart in this wild new landscape? Will she have to smudge her lipstick to ‘cowboy up’? Drama, the long-awaited new play by the master of edgy dark humour, has all the answers.

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  The Back Chamber - Poems

  Donald Hall

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  The former US poet laureate has crafted poems full of “unexpected insights, charms, droll observations, self-mockery, and well-earned wisdom” (Rain Taxi). 
   
  In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through this remarkable collection. While Hall’s devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations—baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship—what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life’s end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted, but rather is lively, irreverent, erotic, hilarious, ironic, and sly—full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of America’s most popular and enduring poets. 
   
  “For the reader boiling in triple-digit SoCal heat at the end of the summer, Donald Hall’s The Back Chamber: Poems arrives like a sudden cloudburst and shower of cooling rain . . . A former U.S. poet laureate, Hall has always had this elemental power—to vividly evoke his particular New England climate and geography so that it can’t be mistaken for any other—but what is more unexpected in this new collection of poems, his 16th, is passion.” —Los Angeles Times 
   
  “The former U.S. poet laureate reaches his 20th book in unmistakably honest form, aggressively plain and unfailingly open about sex, old age, suicide, recovery, the friendship of poets, the business of poetry, dogs, New Hampshire, and baseball.” —Publishers Weekly

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  The Living Art of Greek Tragedy

  Marianne McDonald

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  Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for anyone interested in performing Greek drama, and McDonald's engaging descriptions offer the necessary background to all those who desire to know more about the ancient world. With a chapter on each of the three major Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides), McDonald provides a balance of textual analysis, practical knowledge of the theatre, and an experienced look at the difficulties and accomplishments of theatrical performances. She shows how ancient Greek tragedy, long a part of the standard repertoire of theatre companies throughout the world, remains fresh and alive for contemporary audiences.

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  Venus and Adonis by William...

  William Shakespeare

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  Experience Shakespeare's Epic Poem Like Never Before! 
   
  Embark on a captivating auditory journey with the digital audiobook version of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, "Venus and Adonis." Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of poetic brilliance as the eloquent verses come to life, skillfully narrated by a seasoned cast of actors. 
   
  Synopsis: 
  "Venus and Adonis" is a compelling narrative poem that explores the enthralling tale of the Roman goddess Venus' passionate pursuit of the beautiful mortal youth, Adonis. Set against a backdrop of mythical love and desire, the poem unfolds with exquisite elegance, encompassing themes of love, beauty, mortality, and the eternal struggle between pleasure and fate.

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  Poem A Day A A Year in Verse -...

  William Shakespeare, William...

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  January 1st heralds the beginning of the year in the Western world and its Gregorian calendar.  For the next 365 days, and February 29th every four years, the days reel themselves off as they follow each other through the weeks, months and seasons.  Here, each and every day is celebrated with distinct and separate verse; Some poems commemorate the day it was written, others the birth or death of the writer or a particular significant moment that engages poet with date and verse.   
   
  Our classic poets have much to say.

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  The Poetry Of Emily Jane Bronte

  Emily Brontë

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  Emily Jane Bronte – An Introduction. In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world.  The middle of the three Bronte sisters, Emily Jane was born on 30th July 1818. The author of ‘Wuthering Heights’ she was also a very talented poet as witnessed here in this collection.  She died of tuberculosis at the age of only 30 on 19th December 1848.  So frail at death her coffin measured only sixteen inches wide.

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