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  The History of King Lear

  Nahum Tate

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  The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare's King Lear. It first appeared in 1681, some seventy-five years after Shakespeare's version, and is believed to have replaced Shakespeare's version on the English stage in whole or in part until 1838. Unlike Shakespeare's tragedy, Tate's play has a happy ending, with Lear regaining his throne, Cordelia marrying Edgar, and Edgar joyfully declaring that "truth and virtue shall at last succeed." Regarded as a tragicomedy, the play has five acts, as does Shakespeare's, although the number of scenes is different, and the text is about eight hundred lines shorter than Shakespeare's. Many of Shakespeare's original lines are retained, or modified only slightly, but a significant portion of the text is entirely new, and much is omitted. The character of the Fool, for example, is absent. Although many critics — including Joseph Addison, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, and Anna Jameson — condemned Tate's adaptation for what they saw as its cheap sentimentality, it was popular with theatregoers, and was approved by Samuel Johnson, who regarded Cordelia's death in Shakespeare's play as unbearable. Shakespeare's version continued to appear in printed editions of his works, but, according to numerous scholars, including A.C. Bradley and Stanley Wells, did not appear on the English stage for over a hundred and fifty years from the date of the first performance of Tate's play Actors such as Thomas Betterton, David Garrick, and John Philip Kemble, who were famous for the role of Lear, were portraying Tate's Lear, not Shakespeare's. (Summary by Wikipedia) 
   
  CastKing Lear: Bob GonzalezGloster: Martin GeesonKent: Arielle LipshawEdgar: Dublin GothicEdmund, the Bastard: Elizabeth KlettCornwall: David GoldfarbCornwall's Servant/Old Man/Gentleman/Servant: Algy PugAlbany: Noel BadrianBurgundy/Physician: VikingJamesGoneril's gentleman: KristingjAttendant/Messenger: CJacobAArante/Herald: Tiffany Halla ColonnaFirst Ruffian/Officer: Nathaniel W. C. HigginsSecond Ruffian/Captain: Robert HoffmanGonerill: Bev J. StevensRegan: Liberty StumpCordelia: Miss AvariceNarrator: Algy PugIntroduction/Prologue/Dramatis Personae: Martin GeesonAudio edited by Phil Chenevert

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  The Journey of Life

  William Cullen Bryant

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Journey of Life by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 23, 2012.William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.  His poetry has been described as being "of a thoughtful, meditative character, and makes but slight appeal to the mass of readers." ( Summary by Wikipedia )

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  A Walk Through Brooklyn

  Rashaun J. Allen

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  A Walk Through Brooklyn is a journey told through a collection of poetry. Each step taken is a poem about the black experience. About the experience inside families and around neighborhoods. Filled with words that move through turmoil. Words that give inspiration. And words that attract love. Readers will be moved by issues that touch their lives.

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  Patricia Gets Ready (for a date...

  Martha Watson Allpress

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  Patricia has spent a year recovering from an abusive relationship. But when she bumps into her ex on the street, she accidentally agrees to go to dinner with him that night.
  Now she's got some big decisions to make. What to wear? What to say? And... whether or not to go?
  Martha Watson Allpress's Patricia Gets Ready (for a date with the man that used to hit her) is a play for one actor that was first seen at VAULT Festival 2020, directed by Kaleya Baxe and performed by Angelina Chudi, then at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021, winning numerous awards and receiving rave reviews. It was revived on a UK tour in 2022, performed by Yasmin Dawes, including a run at Brixton House, London.
  'The standout production of this EdFringe' - The Stage
  'Brilliant... A script that refuses to simplify, to be neat and tidy, to apologise, to paint Patricia as just a victim. Rather, she is bold, funny (very funny) and sexually confident' - Guardian

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  Them!

  Harry Josephine Giles

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  Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology.Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and fruitful space between the worlds of ‘online’ and the ‘outside’, and how they fuse and diverge in the imagination.Giles’ visual poetics create an unusually dynamic reading experience as she finds new ways ‘to sing, shout and strike in the cracks of what’s possible’. At a time when trans rights are to the fore in public discourse, Them! is a zestful poetic intervention from one of this generation’s most necessary poets.

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  Short Poetry Collection 098

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2011.

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