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  Dining with the Dead - A Full...

  Nancy Fulton

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  Every funeral is an unplanned occasion thrown together under terrible circumstances by people in shock and mourning. No one involved in burying the dead can fail to recognize their own mortality or confront the course their life has taken to date. In this wry, funny, heart felt, full cast audio play about the death of a philandering family patriarch in a small town, characters reveal shocking secrets and struggle to decide if, when, and how they will ever see one another again. This moment marks the end of who each character is and allows us to understand who they will become.

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  The Compliment

  Eugene Field

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Compliment by Eugene Field. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 1, 2013.

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  The Ferryman

  Jez Butterworth

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   'Vanishing. It's a powerful word, that. A powerful word.' 
  County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor.
  Developed by Sonia Friedman Productions, Jez Butterworth's play The Ferryman premiered to huge acclaim at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April 2017, before transferring to the West End and then Broadway. The production was directed by Sam Mendes.
  It went on to win the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, and the Critics' Circle, Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play. It also won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play.

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  Ode - The Age of Dryden' is a...

  John Dryden

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  John Dryden was born on August 9th, 1631 in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. As a boy Dryden lived in the nearby village of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire. In 1644 he was sent to Westminster School as a King's Scholar.  
  Dryden obtained his BA in 1654, graduating top of the list for Trinity College, Cambridge that year.  
  Returning to London during The Protectorate, Dryden now obtained work with Cromwell's Secretary of State, John Thurloe. 
   At Cromwell's funeral on 23 November 1658 Dryden was in the company of the Puritan poets John Milton and Andrew Marvell.  The setting was to be a sea change in English history. From Republic to Monarchy and from one set of lauded poets to what would soon become the Age of Dryden. 
  The start began later that year when Dryden published the first of his great poems, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on Cromwell's death.  
  With the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 Dryden celebrated in verse with Astraea Redux, an authentic royalist panegyric. 
   With the re-opening of the theatres after the Puritan ban, Dryden began to also write plays. His first play, The Wild Gallant, appeared in 1663 but was not successful. From 1668 on he was contracted to produce three plays a year for the King's Company, in which he became a shareholder. During the 1660s and '70s, theatrical writing was his main source of income.  
  In 1667, he published Annus Mirabilis, a lengthy historical poem which described the English defeat of the Dutch naval fleet and the Great Fire of London in 1666. It established him as the pre-eminent poet of his generation, and was crucial in his attaining the posts of Poet Laureate (1668) and then historiographer royal (1670). 
  This was truly the Age of Dryden, he was the foremost English Literary figure in Poetry, Plays, translations and other forms. 
  In 1694 he began work on what would be his most ambitious and defining work as translator, The Works of Virgil (1697), which was published by subscription. It was a national event.  
  John Dryden died on May 12th, 1700, and was initially buried in St. Anne's cemetery in Soho, before being exhumed and reburied in Westminster Abbey ten days later.

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  Primitive Beauty: Author's...

  J.S. Nathaniel

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  Primitive Beauty: Author's Sketchbook 
  Performed by Avery Sandoval & J.S. Nathaniel  ·  10 hrs 15 min  ·  Dual narration 
  Contemplative · Intimate · Gothic 
   
  His mother kept journals her whole life. 
  She never showed them to anyone. 
  She never finished them. 
  She died. 
  He opened them. 
   
  What J.S. Nathaniel found wasn't a manuscript. It was a life mid-sentence; raw hope written in the dark, dreams deferred like letters with no address, beauty pressed so close to pain you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. He didn't clean it up. He didn't finish what she started. He made something else: a sketchbook. An act of witness. Ten hours of voices moving through what was never meant to be heard. 
   
  Patsy Cline plays on Spotify three times without being summoned. 
  Kitchens flicker. Ottawa shores freeze and groan. 
  The mold wins. The middle child sees everything. 
  The white picket fence yellows at the edges of a suburban dream. 
   
  Performed by Avery Sandoval and J.S. Nathaniel across more than ten uninterrupted hours, this dual-narration recording doesn't perform the work; it inhabits it. Poems spoken without urgency. Gothic fragments left deliberately open. Journal entries delivered in the rhythm of thought, not conclusion. Two voices in the same interior dark, arriving at nothing except presence. There is no plot. There is no resolution. There is only the moment before a feeling gets explained; and the rare company of someone willing to stay there with you. 
   
  For listeners who found themselves in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Maggie Nelson's Bluets, or Ross Gay's Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude; and wanted it to go on longer than it did.

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  Venus and Adonis - One of the...

  William Shakespeare

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  Despite William Shakespeare being regarded as the most significant figure in the Western literary canon, relatively little is known about his early life and his later ‘lost years’.  Even the exact date of his birth is uncertain. 23rd April generally accepted to be the date of his birth, could be a scholarly mistake amplified by the coincidence of it also being the date of his death.  
   
  What is known for certain is that Shakespeare was born to middle class, but probably illiterate parents, John and Mary, in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1565 and baptised there on the 26th April.  He was the third of eight children and the first and eldest surviving son of the remaining five.  
   
  It’s assumed he attended, King’s New School the nearby grammar school, but no records from the time still exist.  However, information on the standardised curriculum that did exist, introduced the young Shakespeare to the disciplines of mathematics, Greek, law, classical history and Latin which greatly influenced his writing. 
   
  At 18, in some haste, he married Anne Hathaway, his senior by 8 years and pregnant with their first child Susanna who was to be followed by the twins, Hamnet and Judith.   Little else is known until in 1590 Shakespeare probably comes to London as by 1592 he becomes relatively well known – first as an actor and then, of course, as a playwright despite some early criticism for having a writing style of his better educated contemporaries and not of his own lower status.  
   
  His iconic status now spans global literature and stems directly from the magnitude of his plays, both tragedies and comedies, and his poetry which is often cited as some of the greatest love poetry ever written.  His legacy endures despite the passing of centuries. 
   
  William Shakespeare died at Stratford-upon-Avon on the April 23rd, 1616.  He was 52.

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