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  Precious Sons

  George Furth

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  Judith Ivey recreates her critically acclaimed Broadway performance as a tough, eccentric mother from Chicago's South Side. When she squares off against her husband over the fate of their "precious sons," shattering family secrets come to light. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barry Cullison, Chad Hutchison, Judith Ivey, Fred Savage and Judy Unger.

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  The Midnight Court - And Other...

  Frank O'Connor

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  Irish literary heavyweight Frank O’Connor translates the ribald and raucous Gaelic masterpiece in a work originally banned by the Irish government.  As a teacher and translator of Irish verse, Frank O’Connor brought to the world’s attention many fine poems from his native land, few as enduring—and none as controversial—as Brian Merriman’s The Midnight Court. An eighteenth-century masterpiece widely recognized as the greatest comic poem in Irish literature, The Midnight Court is a hilarious and insightful take on the battle of the sexes. In the court of a fairy queen, the men and women of Ireland air their grievances with one another. The competing lists of complaints are as long as they are uproarious, and when the queen rules in favor of the women, all young Irish bachelors are doomed to a terrible fate: marriage.The Midnight Court has now taken its rightful place in the Irish literary canon, but when O’Connor’s English translation was first published in 1945, the Irish government banned it as obscene. In a delicious irony that might have been lifted from one of O’Connor’s short stories, the Gaelic original met with no censure. Here, as it first appeared, is Frank O’Connor’s faithful, funny, and eloquent translation of one of the most important works in Irish literature.

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  Ode (Bards Of Passion And Of Mirth)

  John Keats

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Ode (Bards Of Passion And Of Mirth) by John Keats. This was the weekly poetry project for May 17th, 2009.

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  Poetry of the Romantics

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy...

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  The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. All of these poets are featured in this collection of more than 50 poems read by award-winning actors that include Joan Allen, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Glenda Jackson, and Jude Law.

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  Tiger Country (NHB Modern Plays)

  Nina Raine

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  Nina Raine's Tiger Country is a hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital - from the award-winning author of Tribes.
  Professionalism and prejudice, turbulent staff romances, ambition and failure collide in this swirling, action-packed drama about an overburdened health service that we all depend on and the dedicated individuals that keep it going.
  'Tiger country' is where animal instinct stirs and an irrefutable eye opens. Where we make eye contact with the unknown.
  Tiger Country was premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2011 and, following its sell-out run, was revived there in 2014.
  'a meticulously researched and totally absorbing work play' - Whatsonstage.com
  'pacy, action-packed and, in places, touching. The sheer spectacle of the thing is so much more impressive than on the small screen' - Daily Mail
  'a witty, highly intelligent, PC-scourging sensibility' - Independent

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  Sports Poetry

  Henry Newbolt, Sir Arthur Conan...

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  Sports Poetry.  It is human nature to create and compete. Both of these are brought together in Sport. Many games began in distant eons and gradually adapted and became codified to those we know today. In this volume we celebrate, through the verse of so many well known poets, sports of all kinds. Sports for the rich sports for the poor and all manner in between. As Henry Newbolt would say ‘Play Up Play Up and Play The Game. Our collection is read by many including Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

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