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Аудіокнига The Broken Heart

John Ford - The Broken Heart

11-12-2019
The Broken Heart stands next to ‘Tis Pity She's a Whore as Ford's most popular drama. All is not right in Sparta because of, as is typical in this era of tragedies, the issue of marriage. In brief, Penthea wishes to marry Orgilus, but her brother Ithocles gets involved and bans t...
02:39:46
Аудіокнига The Bacchae

Euripides - The Bacchae

23-12-2019
The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agavë, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) for refusing to worship him. (Summary by Wikipedia)Cast:Dionysus:
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Аудіокнига The Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation)

Aeschylus - The Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation)

09-12-2019
The Suppliants, also called The Suppliant Maidens, or The Suppliant Women, is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC. It was long thought to be the earliest surviving play by Aeschylus due to the relatively anachronistic function of the chorus ...
01:06:44
Аудіокнига The Cenci

Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Cenci

19-06-2022
Written in 1819, but not first staged for over hundred years after it was written due to controversial themes of incest and parricide, it was not considered stageable. This tragedy is a true story, set in Rome, 1599, centred around the murder of the tyrant, Count Francesco Cenci,...
Аудіокнига The Thebaid, or The Brothers at War

Jean Racine - The Thebaid, or The Brothers at War

01-04-2022
"The reign of Louis XIV. in France, like the age of Pericles at ancient Athens, was remarkable for literary excellence no less than for military achievements. Like Euripides, Racine confined himself almost exclusively to tragedy.... It was under Molière's friendly auspices that R...
02:07:45
Аудіокнига Richard II

William Shakespeare - Richard II

05-03-2020
Richard II by William Shakespeare is the first of eight plays that portray a historically-informed version of the War of the Roses - beginning in about 1365 and ending with Richard III's death in 1485.Edited by J. M. Smallheer and John Gonzalez. (Summary by Cori)...
Аудіокнига Love and Intrigue

Friedrich Schiller - Love and Intrigue

03-12-2019
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but both their fathers tell them to end their affair. The President i...
Аудіокнига The White Devil

John Webster - The White Devil

02-12-2019
John Webster's The White Devil (1612) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy, replete with adultery, murder, ghosts, and violence. The Duke of Brachiano and Vittoria Corombona decide to kill their spouses, Isabella and Camillo, in order to be together, aided by the crafty and ambit...
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Аудіокнига All for Love; or, The World Well Lost

John Dryden - All for Love; or, The World Well Lost

28-11-2019
All for Love is widely considered to be John Dryden's finest work, dramatic or otherwise. A tragedy written in blank verse, it retells the story of Roman general Marc Antony's love affair with the alluring Egyptian queen Cleopatra and their eventual double-suicide. Compare...
02:44:19
Аудіокнига Electra

Benito Pérez Galdós - Electra

21-12-2019
Originally staged in the Teatro Español in 1901, Electra is a controversial Spanish drama that documents the trials and tribulations of its innocent heroine. Electra is a young woman of unknown parentage who is raised in a convent in France and, after the death of her moth...