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  Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  Macbeth, Shakespeare’s last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it’s first performance in 1606 – probably in front of King James. This exciting new audiobook production is directed with fresh imagination by Fiona Shaw who breaks the conventional strait jacket that has hampered the development of Shakespeare on audio. We are as much in the twenty-first century as in medieval Scotland – the tensions, the politics, the struggle for power and dark ambition is part of our lives… This is also reflected in the sound world, with modern machinery and tanks. Macbeth is part of Naxos AudioBooks’ exciting new series of complete dramatisations of the works of Shakespeare, in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. It uses the New Cambridge Shakespeare text, as used by the Royal Shakespeare Company and educational institutions across the world.

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  The Poetry of James Russell...

  James Russell Lowell

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  James Russell Lowell was born on 22nd February 1819 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
   
  Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1838, and thence on to earn a law degree from Harvard Law School.  
   
  His literary life began in 1841 with his first published collection of poetry.  Three years later he married Maria White and they had several children although, sadly, only one was to survive childhood. 
   
  A consuming issue at the time was the abolition of slavery.  Lowell was a staunch supporter even going so far as to move to Philadelphia to edit an abolitionist newspaper.  His poems were fully in support of Emancipation and the ending of this terrible abomination.  His later views were milder and came in for some criticism.  
   
  His publication in 1848 of the long poem ‘A Fable for Critics’, satirising the poets and critics of the then current poetry scene caused an uproar.  That same year came ‘The Biglow Papers’, which increased his fame and his finances.  His use of the Yankee accent in his character’s dialogue was an inspiration for many. 
   
  Maria died in 1853 and Lowell decided to travel to Europe for some time before returning to Harvard to take up a professorship of languages.   In 1857 he re-married and also took on the editorship of that key periodical ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ whilst continuing to teach at Harvard. 
   
  Lowell wrote and published poetry and essay collections throughout his literary career and is acknowledged as one of the ‘Fireside Poets’, a group of New England poets that rivalled the popularity of British poets.  Their work was not controversial and suitable for whole families to enjoy hence their name and appeal.  Whilst Lowell’s own work does not now attract the same praise as his then contemporaries, he was their equal. 
   
  Towards the end of his life Lowell was appointed as ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and later to the Court of St. James's.  
   
  His last years were a return home to his estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  By the summer of 1891 doctors had diagnosed cancer in his kidneys, liver and lungs.  There was nothing that they could do except prescribe opium for the pain. 
   
  James Russell Lowell died on the 12th of August 1891 on the Cambridge estate where he was also born.  He was 72. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of James Russell Lowell - An Introduction 
  02 - Columbus by James Russell Lowell 
  03 - George Washington by James Russell Lowell 
  04 - Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell 
  05 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  06 - To Charles Eliot Norton - Agro Dolce by James Russell Lowell 
  07 - Winter Evening Hymn To My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  08 - The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
  09 - Midnight by James Russell Lowell 
  10 - On A Portrait of Dante by Giotto by James Russell Lowell 
  11 - A Contrast by James Russell Lowell 
  12 - Above and Below by James Russell Lowell 
  13 - Of the Dawn of Freedom by James Russell Lowell 
  14 - On Board the 76 by James Russell Lowell 
  15 - Trial by James Russell Lowell 
  16 - Ode to France, February 1848 by James Russell Lowell 
  17 - Slaves by James Russell Lowell 
  18 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by Jamers Russell Lowell 
  19 - Threnodia by James Russell Lowell 
  20 - A Requiem by James Russell Lowell 
  21 - On the Death of a Friends Child by James Russell Lowell

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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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  American Dreams

  Velina Hasu Houston

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  After World War II, an African-American war vet brings home his Japanese bride. The family must learn to be tolerant of their new family member, while dealing with prejudice in the outside world.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Mary Bond Davis, Yvonne Farrow, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Peter A. Jacobs, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Don Reed, Charlie Robinson and Patricia Thompson.Directed by Peggy Shannon. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in January, 1991.

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  The Substance of Fire

  Jon Robin Baitz

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  Jon Robin Baitz’s commanding drama about a New York publisher and Holocaust survivor whose decision to publish obscure political tracts threatens the future of both the publisher’s company and his family.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Gretchen Cleevely, Mitchell Hebert, Shirley Knight, Ron Rifkin and Stephen F. Schmidt.

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  Fifty Shades of August - 50 of...

  William Wordsworth, Henry David...

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  The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite ways regardless of our need to keep a count of where we expect her to be.   
   
  Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction 
  2 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield 
  3 - Hymn For the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  4 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley 
  5 - Sonnet XLII To GWC August 1st 1846 by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  6 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  7 - As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  8 - The 4th of August by Laurence Binyon 
  9 - August Afternoon by Laurence Binyon 
  10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, on Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker 
  11 - Composed Near Calais, August 7th 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - Grant at Rest August 8th 1885 by James Whitcomb Riley 
  13 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter 
  14 - August 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  15 - August 19th 1830 by Henry Alford 
  16 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  17 - August the 22nd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  18 - Calais August 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  19 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth 
  20 - Lines Written in August by Thomas Babbington Macaulay 
  21 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster 
  22 - Love and Death by Ernest Radford 
  23 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  24 - At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
  25 - August by James Whitcomb Riley 
  26 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  27 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  28 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  29 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  30 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  31 - An August Night by Radclyffe Hall 
  32 - Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
  33 - From Piccadilly In August by John Freeman 
  34 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  36 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
  37 - Sonnet LIII, August by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  38 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  39 - Seashore by Tagore 
  40 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune 
  41 - Indian Summer by Henry Van Dyke 
  42 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale 
  43 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  44 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  45 - A Draught of Sunshine by John Keats 
  46 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz 
  47 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne 
  48 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore 
  49 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 
  50 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe 
  51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling

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