Showing titles in Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature
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Vita Nuova
- By: Dante Alighieri, Virginia Jewiss, Virginia Jewiss - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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A sparkling translation that gives new life in English to Dante’s Vita Nuova, his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art and power of poetry, and the most widely read of his works after the Inferno A Penguin Classic Dante was only nine years old when he first met young...
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Misleadingly described: English ONLY
- By EEL on 24-02-23
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Vita Nuova
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: English
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Once in a Lifetime
- By: George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
- Narrated by: Caroline Aaron, Edward Asner, Jen Dede, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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It’s 1929 as The Jazz Singer hits the silver screen and the talkies promise to change movies forever. Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained scheme to “make it big” in Tinsel Town. Their plan? To open a voice academy for the witless stars of silent movies. The only things standing in their way are ditzy starlets and power-hungry movie moguls.
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Once in a Lifetime
- Narrated by: Caroline Aaron, Edward Asner, Jen Dede, Jeanie Hackett, David Kaufman, Sarah Rafferty, Jonathan Silverman
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-08-11
- Language: English
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A summary of 9 Shakespeare masterpieces
- By: James Gardner, William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever been to a King Lear performance with the impression of not having understood everything? It's normal. Shakespeare's plays are the most beautiful of the theatrical repertoire, but you cannot go to a Shakespeare play if you do not have a minimum prepared this show: understand the issues, characters, context, cultural or historical references is indispensable. The same is true if you intend to read a play by William Shakespeare: our summaries will help you better understand what you have read.
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A summary of 9 Shakespeare masterpieces
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-02-19
- Language: English
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Awake and Sing!
- By: Clifford Odets
- Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Clifford Odets’ masterpiece, starring Mark Ruffalo, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Kind, and Ben Gazzara, brings to life the struggles of a working-class family aspiring to the promise of the American Dream. Even as they endure the country’s worst economic nightmare, three generations of an immigrant family are crowded into a Bronx tenement, fiercely determined to stay afloat, no matter what the cost.
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Awake and Sing!
- Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Kind, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-08-11
- Language: English
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The Pardoner's Tale
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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Three tales from The Canterbury Tales, read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain's foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer.
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PLAY SAMPLE!
- By Mark on 12-10-15
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The Pardoner's Tale
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 31-12-06
- Language: English
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Gulliver in Lilliput (Dramatised)
- By: Jonathan Swift
- Narrated by: Tony Church, Derek Hart
- Length: 31 mins
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Gulliver is washed from his ship and lands on an island inhibitated by very tiny people. Tony Church, Derek Hart, and John Wood perform Part I of Gulliver's Travels.
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Gulliver in Lilliput (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Tony Church, Derek Hart
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 28-12-10
- Language: English
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Understanding Dante's Divine Comedy
- By: Mary C. Davlin
- Narrated by: Mary C. Davlin
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Dante Alighieri is indisputably one of the world's greatest poets. His epic masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, has been frequently referred to as the supreme work of Italian literature and a staple in the Western Christian tradition. Now, you can explore Dante's life and masterwork with a truly gifted Catholic professor as your guide. In this 12-lecture series, Dante's Divine Comedy, Sr. Mary Clemente Davlin will take you through this timeless narrative that has so profoundly influenced Western history, literature, and the Christian faith.
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Understanding Dante's Divine Comedy
- Narrated by: Mary C. Davlin
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-12-17
- Language: English
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Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Amy Irving, Susan Hart, Peter Aylward, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Originally produced for Chicago Theatres on the Air, Shakespeare's Greatest Hits contains some of the most memorable scenes from the Bard's most profound works: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Othello, and many more. It was performed by Chicago's Shakespeare Repertory, including Amy Irving and Kevin Gudhal, in 1993.
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Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
- Narrated by: Amy Irving, Susan Hart, Peter Aylward, Johnny Lee Davenport, Henry Godinez, Kevin Gudahl, Linda Kimbrough
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 31-03-09
- Language: English
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The School for Scandal
- By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Narrated by: Stuart Bunce, Jane Carr, John Francis Harries, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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Beware the gossips! Lady Sneerwell and her hireling, Snake, are certainly up to no good in this timeless send-up of hypocritical manners. Thanks to their scandal-mongering, the comely Lady Teazle must fend off the slanderous barbs that have caught the ear of her elderly husband - as well as every other gossip in London! What follows is a torrent of mistaken identities and sex-crazed scheming in which the upper classes have never looked so low class.
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The School for Scandal
- Narrated by: Stuart Bunce, Jane Carr, John Francis Harries, Henri Lubatti, Christopher Neame, Julian Sands, Susan Sullivan
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-08-11
- Language: English
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Donald Hall
- Prose and Poetry
- By: Donald Hall
- Narrated by: Donald Hall
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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Author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from 6 of his works of prose. Bursting with the passion of living, yet reverent of time and place, Hall's evocative style has made him one of America's foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, he gives each listener this gift of words - words painstakingly entwined with energy and love.
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A collection of great poems read by the poet.
- By VS Coster on 22-06-23
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Donald Hall
- Prose and Poetry
- Narrated by: Donald Hall
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- Language: English
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Poems By Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: J.B. Bessinger Jr.
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 31-10-08
- Language: English
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Hippolytus
- By: Bob Gonzalez - translator, Euripides
- Narrated by: P. J. Morgan, Linda Barrans, Russell Gold, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Euripides (c. 480-406 B.C.E.) is the author of eighteen extant plays and many more only surviving in fragments. He is the youngest of the three great Athenian tragedians with Aeschylus and Sophocles. Hippolytus, bastard son of Theseus and the Amazon Hippolyta, has sworn chaste allegiance to the goddess Artemis, thus severely offending the goddess Aphrodite by failing to revere her. Aphrodite swears revenge and promises that he will die before the day is done, taking with him Queen Phaedra, wife of Theseus.
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Wonderful!
- By me,myself,andI on 10-10-20
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Hippolytus
- Narrated by: P. J. Morgan, Linda Barrans, Russell Gold, Erin Louttit, Lee Ann Howlett, John Burlinson, Alan Weyman
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 21-03-17
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope
- By: Molière
- Narrated by: Kevin Gudahl, Hollis Resnick
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
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Razor-sharp wit inflames a competitive game of survival in the salons of 17th century France where, in this world of "finest appearances," one man's blunt honesty shatters his society's delicate web of manners. Often considered to be Moliere's Hamlet, this is a wickedly scathing satire.
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The Misanthrope
- Narrated by: Kevin Gudahl, Hollis Resnick
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-12-07
- Language: English
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The Popol Vuh
- Seedbank
- By: Michael Bazzett
- Narrated by: Michael Bazzett
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world and to humanity. This is the story of the Mayan Popol Vuh, “the book of the woven mat,” one of the only epics indigenous to the Americas.
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The Popol Vuh
- Seedbank
- Narrated by: Michael Bazzett
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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Le misanthrope
- By: Molière
- Narrated by: divers narrateurs
- Length: 55 mins
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C'est un classique et pourtant cette célèbre pièce de Molière reflète bien le monde actuel. Dans une société où la compromission est indispensable au respect de l'ordre social, Alceste, le misanthrope, ne peut trouver sa place.
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Le misanthrope
- Narrated by: divers narrateurs
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 09-01-15
- Language: French
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Rough Magic
- Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company
- By: Steven Adler
- Narrated by: Samuel Valor
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Steven Adler examines the dynamic life and workings of the theatre company responsible for some of the world's most compelling performances and influential productions of the last 40 years, including Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Les Misérables, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Nicholas Nickleby.
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Interesting book but read by a theatre novice
- By Mrs R. on 04-05-19
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Rough Magic
- Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Narrated by: Samuel Valor
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-02-17
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dramatized)
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Pauline Brailsford, Thomas Carroll, Colleen Crimmins, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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A full-cast dramatization of one of the great classics of contemporary Western literature. Dorian Gray, an effete young gentleman, is the subject of a striking portrait by the artist Basil Hallward. Gray’s narcissism is awakened, and he embraces a lifestyle of hedonism and casual cruelties. Increasingly consumed by his own vanity, he is forced to confront his true inner-self, in a manner that is as shocking as it is terrifying.
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SIMPLY AWFUL
- By Highlight on 28-12-16
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Pauline Brailsford, Thomas Carroll, Colleen Crimmins, Martin Duffy, Steve Juergens, Roger Mueller, Jim Ortlieb
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 13-09-11
- Language: English
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La grande poesia del mondo 1
- By: Autori Vari
- Narrated by: Roberto Mussapi
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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Da Omero ai grandi lirici greci e latini, dallo splendore della poesia italiana dello Stil Novo ai romantici. Roberto Mussapi ha scelto e inanellato magnifiche opere di poesia dall'antichità alle soglie del nostro tempo, leggendo con la sua voce i loro versi.
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La grande poesia del mondo 1
- Narrated by: Roberto Mussapi
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-11-17
- Language: Italian
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Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 28 hrs and 56 mins
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Experience the stunning Greek poetry of Homer in this collection of his two major works: The Iliad and The Odyssey. These epic poems are beloved for their presentation of Greek history and belief systems, their strong theming and lessons on Greek virtues, and their continued influence on the literary canon.
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Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 28 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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The Descent to Hell
- From the Aeneid, Book 6
- By: James Elroy Flecker - translator, Virgil
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 24 mins
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Among his many other attributes, James Elroy Flecker was a skilled linguist and an expert translator of Latin poetry. In 1913, he planned to write a book to be entitled An interpretation in blank verse of Virgil, Aeneid VI, based on the poetic value of the sounds, together with Latin text and ten prefaces. The surviving translation consists of lines 1-19 and 264-547 from book six, which describe Aeneas' encounter with Sibyl and his visit to the underworld.
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The Descent to Hell
- From the Aeneid, Book 6
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: English
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