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  Poetry for Inspiration

  Various Authors

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  A wonderful collection of poetry to inspire including Tennyson's "Ulysses", Kipling's "If" and Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

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  Cardenio - Shakespeare's 'lost...

  William Shakespeare

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  Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.
  A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena.
  The history of the play is every bit as thrilling, and this text is the result of a masterful act of literary archaeology by the Royal Shakespeare Company's Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, to re-imagine a previously lost play by Shakespeare.
  Based on an episode in Cervantes' Don Quixote, the play known as Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher was performed at court in 1612. A copy of their collaboration has never been found; however, it is claimed that Double Falshood by Lewis Theobald is an eighteenth-century adaptation of it.
  Since Theobald's play misses out some crucial scenes in the plot, Doran has turned to the Cervantes original to supply the missing episodes, using the original English translation by Thomas Shelton (1612) that Fletcher and Shakespeare must themselves have read.
  Cardenio re-opened the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's fiftieth birthday season in 2011.
  'an extraordinary and theatrically powerful piece... the play works beautifully' - Guardian

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  Fifty Shades of April - 50 of...

  John Clare, Hafiz, Henry...

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  The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar historically brings April showers, sunshine, touches of warmth and bursts of colour from tree and land. Buds, blossom, leaves, the great symphony of nature cascades across the landscape. Wildlife has new broods of life to nurture and provide for. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of April - An Introduction 
  02 - In April by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  03 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  04 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  05 - April Rain by Mathilde Blind 
  06 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage 
  07 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 
  08 - April by Sara Teasdale 
  09 - On a Nightingale in April by William Sharpe 
  10 - The Idlers Calender - April - Trout Fishing by William Scawen Blunt 
  11 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  12 - Loveliest Of Trees, The Cherry Now by A E Housman 
  13 - Sonnet To April by Henry Kirk White 
  14 - Sonnet VIII - To Spring by Charlotte Smith 
  15 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 
  16 - A Petition To April, Written During Sickness by Susanna Blamire 
  17 - The Soul of April by Bliss William Carman 
  18 - The Days of Spring by Hafiz 
  19 - A Pang Is More Conspicuous in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  20 - Easter by Edmund Spenser 
  21 - A Spring Carol by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  22 - Dublin, Easter 1916 by Alice Furlong 
  23 - April Evening, France, April 1916 by John William Streets 
  24 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas 
  25 - April, 1918 by Henry Christopher Bradby 
  26 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 
  27 - The Easter Flower by Claude McKay 
  28 - April 1844 by Henry Alford 
  29 - Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan 
  30 - Child's Talk in April by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  31 - An April Fool by Alfred Austin 
  32 - The Famous Speech Maker of England or Baron Lovel's Charge at the Assizes at Exon April 5th 1710 by Jonathan Swift 
  33 - Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  34 - Rome - Building a New Street in The Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay 
  36 - April by John Bannister Tabb 
  37 - Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning 
  38 - Stanzas April 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  39 - Over the Lands In April by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  40 - Spring Morning by A E Housman 
  41 - Cuckoo Song By Rudyard Kipling 
  42 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  43 - April by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  44 - An April Love by Alfred Austin 
  45 - Another Song - an extract from Divine Songs and Meditacions by An Collins 
  46 - Sonnet 98 - From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring by William Shakespeare 
  47 - So Sweet Love Seemed That April Morn by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  48 - My April Lady by Henry Van Dyke 
  49 - Love Like an April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burgess 
  50 - With A Guitar, To Jane by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  51 - The Shepheardes Calendar IV - April by Edmund Spenser

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  Anne of Green Gables (version 7)...

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Red-haired Anne Shirley, the orphan girl mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, has been one of the world's most beloved characters since the publication of Anne of Green Gables in 1908. In this dramatic reading, Librivox readers tell the story of Anne's adventures as she grows up on Prince Edward Island.(Summary by wildemoose)Cast: 
  Anne/Narrator: Arielle LipshawMarilla Cuthbert: Elizabeth KlettMatthew Cuthbert: Bruce PirieMrs. Rachel Lynde: Amy GramourDiana Barry: Sally McConnellGilbert Blythe: mbStationmaster: Phil ChenevertMrs. Spencer: Sally McConnellFlora Jane Spencer: sherlock85Mrs. Blewett: Tricia GMrs. Barry: Linette GeiselMr. Phillips: David LawrenceJimmy Glover/Boys: Peter BishopRuby Gillis: ESFJ GirlDoctor: Phil ChenevertMiss Josephine Barry: ashleyspenceMrs. Allan: Sarah JenningsJosie Pye: rashadaCarrie Sloane: Laura PayneMiss Lucilla Harris: Sally McConnellJane Andrews: Elizabeth BarrMiss Stacy: Amy GramourMoody Spurgeon McPherson: Peter BishopLady: AvailleAudio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

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  La Ronde - Full Text and...

  Arthur Schnitzler

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. La Ronde is the famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. The play is a series of ten scenes depicting couples in different sexual liaisons. Each of the ten characters appears in two adjacent scenes, forming an endless chain of sexual links across all the layers of Viennese society.

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  Me You Then Snow

  Khashayar Mohammadi

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  Me, You, Then Snow by Khashayar Mohammadi is a collection of poetry woven from dreams, memories and deep-seeded longing, a collection of poetry that ranges from ambiguously addressed love-letters, to ekphrastic poems for arthouse cinema, to pieces written near midnight when the day’s experiences rush back into view. Though working in diverse forms and styles, the poetry manifests as a profoundly unified desire to experience and communicate the world.

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