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  Ibsen: Three Plays - Full Texts...

  Henrik Ibsen

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  'I'm going to find out – which of us is right, society or me.'
  Henrik Ibsen's three great 'problem plays', A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, challenged the conventions of nineteenth-century society and sparked a revolution in European theatre. Their female protagonists, Nora Helmer, Helene Alving and Hedda Gabler, continue to exert their power over modern audiences.
  This volume brings together all three plays in sensitive and playable translations from the original Norwegian, along with a full introduction to Ibsen, his times and his work.
  The Drama Classic Collections bring together the most popular plays from a single author or a particular period. They offer students, actors and theatregoers a series of uncluttered, accessible editions, accompanied by comprehensive introductions. Where the originals are in English, there is a glossary of unfamiliar words and phrases. Where the originals are in a foreign language, the translations aim to be both actable and accurate – and are made by translators whose work is regularly staged in the professional theatre.

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  Shakespeare Monologues...

  William Shakespeare

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  LibriVox readers present the fifth 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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  Short Poetry Collection 051

  Various Various

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  LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 051: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  The Unfriend (NHB Modern Plays)...

  Steven Moffat

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  While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She's less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they?
  When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to look her up online. Too late, they learn the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski. Deadly danger has just boarded a flight to London! But how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming, well, a bit impolite? Because guess who's coming… to murder!
  Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice. It was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in May 2022, with a cast including Amanda Abbington, Frances Barber and Reece Shearsmith, before transferring to the Criterion Theatre in London's West End in January 2023.
  Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer whose internationally successful television shows include Doctor Who, Sherlock and Dracula – the latter two co-written with actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who made his stage directorial debut with The Unfriend.
  'Steven Moffat has skilfully crafted one of the funniest plays to be seen on stage in a very long time... pure comedy gold… a comedy of manners that niftily speeds along and is full of outrageous humour… never anything except laugh-out-loud funny… a killer comedy to die for' - WhatsOnStage
  'Effortlessly entertaining… The action is line-by-line funny and an apt commentary on English middle-class manners… Moffat may be the new Ayckbourn' - Telegraph
  'A hilarious dark comedy of good manners… a tour de force of toilet farce, proper gut-busting stuff' - The Stage
  'A cringe-tastic play of exquisite embarrassment… worthy of a place in the macabre comedy series Inside No 9' - Guardian
  'Boasts a ruthlessly efficient devotion to the punchline and a relentless urgency in ratcheting up the awkward tension. Every second or third line of this farcical modern comedy of manners is a gag... The premise is brilliant in its simplicity and hugely effective in its laugh-filled execution' - Chortle
  'A much-needed, riotous bit of fun… an uproarious comedy of English embarrassment… a relentlessly snowballing orgy of cringe and discomfiture… a delight' - Evening Standard
  'Hits the funny bone with a welcome twang' - The Times

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  The Story Of Shakespeare's Pericles

  William Shakespeare

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  Pericles is the Prince of Tyre but is forced to leave the city due to the atrocities that the wicked Emperor of Greece threatens to bestow should he stay.  His courage, wisdom and goodness are recognized wherever he goes so much so that he marries the Queen of Pentapolis who bears him a child at sea, for he is forced to return to Tyre to pacify its citizens who are clamouring for his return as their ruler following the death of the wicked Emperor of Greece.  He believes his Queen to have died in childbirth and has to trust the upbringing of this newly born daughter, Marina, with the good rulers of Tarsus, as on board ship is no place for an infant.  Pericles was grief stricken at the loss of his wife and child and could hardly eat or speak but the twists of fate had a better outcome for him.  Although not one of the best known of Shakespeare’s histories it has all his trademarks and with a strong reading by the warm rousing voice of Tim Graham, means this audio shouldn’t be ignored.

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  Short Poetry Collection 097

  Various Various

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

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