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  Daniel Deronda - Dramatized from...

  George Eliot, Kate McAll

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  Scornful of men and the love they profess for her, Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful but spoiled young woman, frustrated by her limited options in Victorian England. Daniel Deronda is an intelligent, handsome young man who has been raised by his guardian, Sir Hugo Mallinger, but knows nothing of his true origins. Deronda’s search leads him into the world of 19th-century Zionism, a discovery that will alter the course of his life.An original L.A. Theatre Works commission, adapted and directed by Kate McAll. Includes an audience talkback about George Eliot with Hilary Schor, Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Law at USC.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:Edita Brychta as Mother, Madame von Langen and othersBarry Creyton as Sir Hugo Mallinger and Lord BrackenshawIfan Meredith as Daniel DerondaCerris Morgan-Moyer as Aunt Nancy and othersKimberley Nixon as Gwendolen HarlethDarren Richardson as Mordecai, Hans, and othersHelen Sadler as Mirah LapidothJulian Sands as Henleigh Mallinger GrandcourtAndré Sogliuzzo as Uncle Henry and othersWith Kate Burton as George Eliot/NarratorRecorded live in performance at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in March 2018.

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  To Celia

  Ben Jonson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of To Celia by Ben Jonson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 6th, 2011.Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. To Celia is a poem first published after March 1616 by Ben Jonson. It was set to music after 1770, in the form of the song Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, the poem's first line.(summary by Wikipedia)

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  Hernani by Victor Hugo - French...

  Victor Hugo, David Serero

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  Hernani is a drama by the French romantic author Victor Hugo (Les Misrables, Ther Hunchback of Notre Dame de Paris..etc). 
  The play was given its premiere on 25 February 1830 by the Comédie-Française in Paris. Today, it is more remembered for the demonstrations which accompanied the first performance and for being the inspiration for Giuseppe Verdi's opera Ernani than it is for its own merits. Hugo had enlisted the support of fellow Romanticists such as Hector Berlioz and Théophile Gautier to combat the opposition of Classicists who recognized the play as a direct attack on their values. 
  This Cast Album Recording is the first recording of the English version of this important french theater classic. 
  Starring French actor David Serero as Hernani, Lisa Monde (Dona Sol), Ron Barba (Don Carlos), David Mohr (Don Ruy Gomez), Kristyn Vario (Josepha). 
  Adapted in the English language by David Serero.

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  Alice Meynell

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  Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.At the end of the 19th century, in conjunction with uprisings against the British (among them the Indians', the Zulus', the Boxer Rebellion, and the Muslim revolt led by Muhammad Ahmed in the Sudan), many European scholars, writers, and artists, began to question Europe's colonial imperialism. This led the Meynells and others in their circle to speak out for the oppressed. Alice Meynell was a vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, founded by Cicely Hamilton and active 1908–19.  - Summary by Wikipedia

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  Far Away

  Caryl Churchill

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  A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2000.
  At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is at war - including birds and animals. Far Away is a howl of anguish at the increasing – and increasingly accepted – levels of inhumanity in a world seemingly perpetually involved in conflict.
  'You know you are in the hands of a master' The Sunday Times
  'Churchill was expected to produce something explosive, but... she has exceeded the critics' highest expectations' The Observer

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  Westminster Memorials Volume 1

  William Blake, John Bunyan,...

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  Westminster Memorials, Volume 1 – An introduction. Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime ministers. However it is also a church that remembers the men and women of the arts.  Dedicated writers and poets who spoke so eloquently that the Nation wished to remember them with plaques upon its walls so that all who travelled here could remember too.  Their works are worth remembering and here, in these volumes, their wise words speak too and for us all.  In Volume 1 we collect together Matthew Arnold to Lewis Carroll.

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