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  Shakespeare Monologues...

  William Shakespeare

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  LibriVox readers present the seventh collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres - tragedy, comedy, romance, &c - that there is always at least one monologue in each of his plays. Some of these teach a lesson, some simply characterize Shakespeare at his best, some are funny, some sad, but all are very moving. Each monologue will touch everybody differently. Some people will be so moved by a particular monologue that they will want to record it. (summary by Shurtagal)

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  Top Secret - The Battle for the...

  Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons

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  Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons’ timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
  
  Diane Adair as Meg Greenfield
  Bo Foxworth as George Wilson/Eugene Patterson
  John Getz as Ben Bagdikian
  James Gleason as Murray Marder/Judge Martin Peel
  Gregory Harrison as Brian Kelly
  John Heard as Ben Bradlee
  Raphael Sbarge as Robert Mardian/Ron Ziegler
  Russell Soder as Soldier/Darryl Cox/Clerk-Bailiff
  Susan Sullivan as Katherine Graham
  Peter Van Norden as Fritz Beebe/Dr. Henry Kissinger
  Tom Virtue as Dennis Doolin/President Richard Nixon
  Geoffrey Wade as General John Mitchell/Chal Roberts/Lamont Vanderhall
  
  Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in March of 2008.

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  Henry VI Part 3

  William Shakespeare

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  Henry VI, Part 3 or The Third Part of Henry the Sixt (often written as 3 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas 1 Henry VI deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, and 2 Henry VI focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, and the inevitability of armed conflict, 3 Henry VI deals primarily with the horrors of that conflict, as the once ordered nation is thrown into chaos and barbarism as families break down and moral codes are subverted in the pursuit of revenge and power.Among Shakespeare's history plays Henry VI Part 3 and Richard II contain the only intances in which a living monarch is displaced. However, unlike Richard who fell because of his misunderstanding of the limits of his sovereignty, the demise of Henry was due to his total incapacity to exercise his sovereign power. The inability of the king to deal with the brutal realities of regal life is dramatically displayed in Act 2 Scene 5 where Henry witnesses the agonies of the father who has killed his son and the son who has killed his father, and sadly acknowledges that this civil strife has been caused by the King's ineptitude. The crowning indignity comes in Act 3 Scene 1 where the king in hiding is easily detected and trapped by two rustics who triumphantly prepare to lead him before the man who has deposed him, Edward IV. Henry's death comes at the hands of the brother of Edward, the vicious and rampantly ambitious Richard, who later rises to the heights of supreme tyranny in Richard III. After Henry's son and heir, Edward, is murdered, also by the future Richard III, and Henry's most influential supporter, the Earl of Warwick, dies, the House of Lancaster lies in ruins.

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  King Lear

  William Shakespeare

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  I am a man more sinned against than sinning. 
  A Shakespeare Society Production. 
  The complete play in five acts.

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  The Conscientious Deacon

  Vachel Lindsay

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Conscientious Deacon by Vachel Lindsay. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.Vachel Lindsay described this poem as "a song to be syncopated as you please". According to Wikipedia he is considered the father of modern singing poetry (as he referred to it) in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. His extensive correspondence with the poet Yeats details his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry as had been practised by the ancient Greeks. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

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  Old Fools (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tristan Bernays

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  The story of Tom and Viv, their love and the life they've shared together – from first spark to dying light. But not necessarily in that order.
  Tristan Bernays' Old Fools is a surprising and touching play about a couple, their experience of Alzheimer's, and their enduring efforts to hold their relationship together through the years.
  It premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2018.

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