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  The Last of the Haussmans

  Stephen Beresford

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  A funny, touching and at times savage portrait of a family full of longing that's losing its grip - The Last of the Haussmans is a play examining the fate of the revolutionary generation. It premiered at the National Theatre in 2012, starring Julie Walters and Rory Kinnear.
  Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high-society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the ashrams of the 1960s, while holding court in her dilapidated art deco house on the Devon coast.
  After an operation, she's joined by her wayward offspring, her sharp-eyed granddaughter, a local doctor and a troubled teenager who makes use of the family's crumbling swimming pool. Over a few sweltering months they alternately cling to and flee a chaotic world of all-day drinking, infatuations, long-held resentments, free love and failure.
  'A knockout - entertaining, sad and outrageous. [Stephen Beresford] is going to be a major name' Observer
  'Beresford's drama is frequently a hoot... you can't not enjoy' Metro
  'Beresford's debut is thoughtful and fresh, delighting in the savagery of a dysfunctional family... deliciously comical... drips with smart lines' Evening Standard

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  Winter: A Dirge

  Robert Burns

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 different recordings of Winter: A Dirge by Robert Burns. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 13th, 2008.

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  The Poetry of Art - Creative and...

  Thomas Chatterton

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  Art comes in many shapes and sizes and many different forms.  And one person’s art is often someone else’s object of derision. 
   
  But what we can all agree on is that Art exists, that it’s something perhaps unique to humankind but very definitely evokes a deep reaction whether of ‘wow!’ or ‘what?’   
   
  In this volume we take Art as our subject and have it reviewed and explored by other Artists, by Classic Poets. 
   
  True Art ignites an individual response or a collective awareness.  Our DNA seems to cultivate that.  When we engage with Art the results are at times as surprising as they are interesting. 
   
  In the words of Keats, Shakespeare, Wharton, Chatterton and very many others Art is seen and understood both as that individual reaction and a collective experience.  Art is where it’s at. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of Art - An Introduction 
  02 - The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens 
  03 - Botticlelli’s Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton 
  04 - Before a Painting by James Weldon Johnson 
  05 - Sonnet 20 - A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted by William Shakespeare 
  06 - Sonnet 24 - Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Steeled by William Shakespeare 
  07 - Sonnet 83 - I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need by William Shakespeare 
  08 - Art and Heart  by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  09 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  10 - I Have Colours in My Head by Daniel Sheehan 
  11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - To the Painter, To Draw Him a Picture by Robert Herrick 
  13 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton 
  14 - On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  15 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound 
  16 - To a Beautiful Female Portrait by Henry Alford 
  17 - The Portrait by Ford Madox Ford 
  18 - Her Portrait Immortal by Richard Le Gallienne 
  19 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 
  20 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  21 - On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto by James Russell Lowell 
  22 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily 
  23 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats 
  24 - Jade by Edith Wharton 
  25 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  26 - An Inscription for Zheng Shujin's Painting by Qiu Jin 
  27 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  28 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  29 - How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things by Michael Drayton 
  30 - To the Painter of an Ill Drawn Picture of Cleone by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  31 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce 
  32 - A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  Raging: Embargo - The War of...

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  Part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland, Embargo focuses on a pivotal moment during the Irish War of Independence.
  It is September 1920. Dockers and railmen are refusing to transport armed troops or handle any weapons arriving from Britain. Three characters are caught up in the whirl of historical events in a poetic, bloody and heroic tale of industrial action and civic resistance.
  Embargo was first staged by Fishamble: The New Play Company, in association with Iarnród Éireann and Dublin Port Company, in October 2020, streamed live online from the Pumphouse in Dublin Port, as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
  Deirdre Kinahan's Raging trilogy tells powerful stories drawing on a tumultuous period of conflict in Irish history, from the 1916 Easter Rising to the Civil War which began in 1922. Each of the three plays – Wild Sky, Embargo and Outrage – was first performed a century after the event which it depicts, and they were commissioned and performed by companies including Fishamble: The New Play Company, Meath County Council Arts Office, Dublin Port Company and Iarnród Éireann.
  
  Together, they challenge the historical narrative, mixing true-life testimonies with powerful drama to create a theatrical hurricane of empathy, action and truth.
  'Unashamedly humanistic... impressive layers of nuance' - Irish Times

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  Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare

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  Much Ado about Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare's best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics.
  
  The play includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Victorian Poetry Volume 2

  Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley...

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  Victorian Poetry – Volume 2 - An Introduction.  Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of their poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world renowned – Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some almost forgotten – Patmore, Newbolt, Synge.  And some barely noted – Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith.  But together they encompass a great poetical age.  In Volume 2 we collect together Thomas Hardy  to George Meredith.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

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