Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Hamlet Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Bolgert, Mle Tournier, Jean Villard, Suzanne Bing, Vibert, Aman Maitre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: La Tragique Histoire d'Hamlet, prince de Danemark plus couramment désigné sous le titre abrégé Hamlet, est la plus longue et l'une des plus célèbres pièces de William Shakespeare. Le roi du Danemark, père d'Hamlet, est mort récemment. Son frère Claudius l'a remplacé comme roi et, moins de deux mois après2, a épousé Gertrude, la veuve de son frère3. Le spectre du roi apparaît alors et révèle à son fils qu'il a été assassiné par Claudius. Hamlet doit venger son père et pour mener son projet à bien simule la folie. Mais il semble incapable d'agir, et, devant l'étrangeté de son comportement, l'on en vient à se demander dans quelle mesure il a conservé sa raison. On met cette folie passagère sur le compte de l'amour qu'il porterait à Ophélie, fille de Polonius, chambellan et conseiller du roi. L'étrangeté de son comportement plonge la cour dans la perplexité. Mis en cause à mots couverts par Hamlet, Claudius perçoit le danger et décide de se débarrasser de son fantasque neveu. - -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Odds of You and Me: A Novel Author: Cecilia Galante Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 31, 2017 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: In the vein of Meg Donohue and Sarah Jio, Cecilia Galante’s second novel delivers the powerful story of one young woman who’s faced with an impossible choice—one that could have her making the biggest mistake of her life. Thirteen days. That’s all Bernadette, “Bird,” Sincavage has left to go until she’s done with her probation and can be free again. Free from making payments to the supermarket she wrote bad checks to. Free from living at home with her overzealous mother who’s constantly nagging her about attending church again. Free to give her four-year-old son, Angus, the normal life he deserves. Her impending freedom and move to Moon Lake, where she’s plunked down a deposit on a brand new apartment, is so close she can almost taste it. What trouble could she possibly get into in just thirteen days? But trouble does follow in the form of James Rittenhouse—someone she worked with a few years ago. At first, Bird is stunned to see James make the evening news when he’s arrested for assaulting someone in a local bar. But that’s nothing compared to the shock she gets when she discovers James hiding out in an abandoned church choir loft. Somehow he escaped police custody, broke his leg, and got his hand on a gun, which he’s now pointing at her. Although Bird doesn’t tell anyone she saw James, there’s no way she’s helping him. She can’t screw up her probation or her second chance for a new future. And she has her son’s welfare to think about. Still. If only she could stop thinking about the terrified look in James’ eyes and the fact that he’s hurt. If only she could forget that once, long ago, James helped her out, and she owes him a debt like no other.  Will Bird jeopardize her future for someone who helped her out in the past? A past that holds secrets she’s not quite sure she’s ready to face? Or will she turn a blind eye and learn to live with the consequences?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time is Not Yet Ripe Author: Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date: January 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (1878 - 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist and playwright. He was born in Edinburgh but moved to Melbourne, Australia when he was three. He attended the University of Melbourne and began working as a journalist and playwright soon after. His best known work is the political comedy, The Time is Not Yet Ripe, first performed in 1912. It has since come to be acknowledged as an Australian classic, and has often been revived. - Summary Adapted from Wikipedia by Algy Pug

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry IV, A Tragedy in Three Acts Author: Luigi Pirandello Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 12, 2017 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: A talented actor and historian falls off his horse in a historical pageant while playing the role of Henry IV. When he comes to, he believes himself to be Henry. For the next twenty years his nephew, Count de Nolli, funds an elaborate hoax in a remote villa, where actors play the roles of Henry's privy councillors and simulate the 11th century court. On request from his dying mother, de Nolli brings a Doctor referred to as the latest in a succession to try to cure Henry (whose real name, if it is not Henry, is never mentioned). All the action of the play occurs in this one day of the visit. - Summary by Wikipedia

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barks and Purrs (Dramatic Reading) Author: Colette Avital Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in a comfortable household. The episodes cover a hot afternoon, a train ride, and what happened when dinner was late or their mistress was ill. We hear about the first fire in autumn, a heavy storm, and about a visitor in the household. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette-Willy was throughout her life a controversial French novelist. She published around 50 novels; the best known is "Gigi". (Summary by Availle)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283143 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers' Vows Author: Elizabeth Inchbald Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for "an English audience." Even so, she left the setting as Germany. The play was first performed at Covent Garden on Thursday, 11 October 1798, and was an immediate success: it ran for forty-two nights, "making it by some distance Covent Garden's most successful venture of that season," and went on to be performed in Bristol, Newcastle, Bath, and elsewhere. It was likewise successful as a print publication, though it also aroused controversy about its "levelling" politics and moral ambiguity. Anne Plumptre, who translated Kotzebue's play as The Natural Son, wrote (perhaps not disinterestedly as the production of Inchbald's work effectively precluded the production of her own) that Inchbald had transformed the character of Amelia into a "forward country hoyden." Others, however, defended the morality of the play. And indeed, various characters indulge in considerable moralizing about charity, honour, and forgiveness. (Summary by wikipedia)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Miser Author: Molière Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: The Miser is a comedy of manners about a rich moneylender named Harpagon. His feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers. Although the 17th-century French upper classes presumably objected to the play's message, it is less savage and somewhat less realistic than Molière's earlier play, Tartuffe, which attracted a storm of criticism on its first performance. (Summary by wikipedia)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seagull Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading leading lady Irina Arkadina, her son the experimental playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. (Wikipedia)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 3) Author: Oscar Wilde Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 11 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," and has proved immensely popular since its first performance in 1895. The play certainly has its farcical and comic elements, such as the witty banter exchanged by the characters and the flippant attitude towards love and marriage that characterizes the action. However, the play also explores more serious themes through the central story of Jack Worthing's search for his identity. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Changeling Author: Thomas Middleton Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 6 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: The Changeling is a sensational 1622 tragicomedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley that comprises two intertwining plots. The first involves Beatrice-Joanna, daughter of the governor of Alicante, and her unruly passion for Alsemero, despite the fact that she is engaged to Alonzo de Piracquo. She enlists the aid of her father's servant De Flores to kill Alonzo so that she can marry Alsemero. However, she does not anticipate that De Flores, who is in love with her, will demand payment for the deed. The second plot is set in a madhouse, where the jealous old doctor Alibius is keeping his beautiful young wife Isabella confined so that she will not be unfaithful to him. Despite his best efforts, she is assailed by illicit suitors on all sides: Franciscus, who disguises himself as a madman, Antonio, who disguises himself as a fool, and Lollio, his lustful servant. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Version 2) Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Shakespeare's festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered Amazonian bride Hippolyta) with four contentious lovers, a forest full of quarreling and mischievous fairies and adds a dose of amateur theatre for good measure. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Six Characters in Search of an Author Author: Luigi Pirandello Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. Pirandello, in the preface to the play, says that whenever a reader opens Dante’s Inferno, Francesca will drift down from the dark wind in her circle of Hell and tell the Pilgrim her story; and it will always be for the first time – just as the Mother in Pirandello’s play at one point makes an agonizing cry, always for the first time. Each character sees events and the other characters differently. Their readings of reality do not match up. No one character is more correct than the other. There are as many versions of the story as there are characters in the play. Each character is in fact many characters; each has a sense of who he or she is, but each also is what the others believe he or she is. The play suggests that we are more victims of forces we cannot control than captains of our own fate and demonstrates Pirandello's conception that in place of a continuous ego, self or "I" are states of mind, masks or personae; the temporary result of forces brought to bear on us at that moment. The self becomes an anthology of such roles or masks. Theatricalists thought life was more like theater than vice versa. As in theater, we put on and take off masks, try out various roles, and make up our lives as we go along. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jessica's First Prayer and Jessica's Mother Author: Hesba Stretton Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Jessica is a little girl who used to be an actress till she grew too big. Now she lives on the streets, mostly starving until she meets Mr. Dan'el. Mr. Dan'el gives Jessica his cast-off crusts and warmed-over coffee. Jessica follows Mr. Dan'el to a building where a bunch of people sing and then listen to a man tell them about someone named God. Jessica wants to know who God is so she sneaks into listen every Sunday, hoping she won't be found out. (Summary by Adele de Pignerolles) .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Man's World Author: Rachel Crothers Narrator: Expatriate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: The mysterious Frank Ware is a woman writer forced to write under a masculine pseudonym in order to win literary respect. Adding to her enigmatic status is the fact that she lives in New York City with her adopted child, a little son of unknown parentage, mystifying her friends by spending all her spare time in the least savory parts of the City, trying to rescue prostitutes from their hard lives. Eventually, even her closest bohemian and artistic companions begin to ask awkward questions, driving her to difficult, life-changing revelations. “A Man’s World” embodies some of Rachel Crothers’ most passionate ideas about the relations between men and women; the double standards used to judge behavior; the dangers of romantic Love; the stifling, philistine prejudices still present even among the most progressive and free-thinking members of American society. Frank Ware stands as a remarkable character in the literature of the early 20th century, a free-minded, strong, and independent woman willing to stand fast on her ideals even at great personal sacrifice. (Expatriate)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282897 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Recruiting Officer Author: George Farquhar Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: The author was himself a recruiting officer, and possibly gathered all the materials for this play on the very spot where he has placed his scene—Shrewsbury. He has dedicated the piece "to all friends round the Wrekin," and has thanked the inhabitants of the town for that cheerful hospitality, which made, he adds, "the recruiting service, to some men the greatest fatigue on earth, to me the greatest pleasure in the world." The life of Farquhar was full of adventures.—As a student, he was expelled from the college of Dublin, for adventuring profane wit upon a sacred theme, given to him by his tutor for his exercise. As an actor, he forsook the stage in grief and horror, on having unknowingly made use of a real sword, instead of a counterfeit one, by which he wounded a brother performer, with whom he had to fence in a tragedy, nearly to the loss of his life. As a dramatic writer, Farquhar was eminently successful; and in his military capacity, he was ever honoured and beloved—whether fighting with a great army in Flanders, or recruiting with a small party in Shropshire. (Mrs Inchbald (In preface to the publication))

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Awakening of Spring Author: Frank Wedekind Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: The Awakening of Spring is the German dramatist Frank Wedekind's first major play and a seminal work in the modern history of theatre. It is the source material for the contemporary rock musical Spring Awakening. The play criticises the sexually-oppressive culture of fin de siècle Germany and offers a vivid dramatisation of the erotic fantasies that it breeds. Due to the nature of its content, the play has often been banned. (Summary by wikipedia and wildemoose)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hindle Wakes Author: Stanley Houghton Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in Blackpool and the two go off for what they believe to be secret fling in Llandudno. But after the death of Fanny's friend, Mary, in a pleasure boat accident at Blackpool the secret is revealed and the the two families are thrown into disarray. The leading light of the so-called Manchester School of realist dramatists, Stanley Houghton wrote Hindle Wakes in 1911 and it was a hit both in Mrs. Horniman's Gaiety Theatre in Manchester and the Aldwych Theatre, London in the following year. Houghton's best known play, Hindle Wakes has been filmed five times, most recently in 1976 as a TV film starring Donald Pleasance. The play's title refers to the wakes week holiday in the fictional town of Hindle and is also a pun on the name of a traditional Lancashire chicken dish. (Summary by Phil Benson)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (Version 2 dramatic reading) Author: Henry James Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.54 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Frederick Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tragedy of Macbeth (Version 2) Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corroding psychological and political effects produced when its protagonist, the Scottish lord Macbeth, chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power. He commits regicide to become king and then furthers his moral descent with a reign of murderous terror to stay in power, eventually plunging the country into civil war. In the end, he loses everything that gives meaning and purpose to his life before losing his life itself. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tragedy of Mariam Author: Elizabeth Cary Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus to create a closet drama (written to be read, rather than performed live) about Mariam, the second wife of Herod the Great. At the beginning of the play, Mariam believes that Herod has been killed by Octavius, and struggles with how to respond. On the one hand, she is relieved, as she is angry with Herod for killing her brother and grandfather. On the other, she knows that he loved her, and she feels caught by her sense of duty as his wife. When Herod unexpectedly returns, Mariam must decide what to do. - Summary by Elizabeth Klett