Sunday, March 8, 2009

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Antietam: The Lost Command



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Antietam: The Lost Command


Author : Not Known

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Sound Mind Theater

Runtime : 50 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
American
Pre 1900

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Full-cast adventure tale set against the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. Three escaped Confederate prisoners learn of a plot to ambush Stonewall Jackson and race against time to warn the Rebel forces.


heavy on drama...light on historical facts
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Jim from Texas - 01 Mar 2005


I give this one two stars mostly for effort. Since I am a stickler for historical correctness, I have difficulty with an entertainment program that strays too far from the facts of subject. I do give them kudas for making an interesting drama, but if you like your history mixed with facts, try the many history programs available from the Colonial Radio Theatre. They have figured out how to do this really well.

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King Lear
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King Lear

Author : William Shakespeare
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 3 hours 55 minutes
Categories : Shakespeare
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King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare's most profoundly searching and disturbing tragedy, is the story of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns, late in life and after terrible suffering, the value of self-knowledge. The play asks the ancient questions about God and the meaning of pain with uncompromising directness, but provides no reassuring answers...

King Lear, probably dating from 1605, was first printed in a quarto version in 1608 and in a different form in the First Folio of 1623. It is the third In Shakespeare's great sequence of four tragedies: Hamlet (1600-01) and Othello (1602-1604) precede it, and Macbeth (1606) follows. It possesses the widest emotional and thematic reach of them all, occupying a space which achieves an almost abstract, symbolic quality while at the same time offering a painful concreteness of experience: it is both intensely personal and impressively universal, tackling the great questions of suffering and morality ('is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?') within the context of a social conscience CO! I have ta'en too little care of this') and an anguished questioning of God (or the gods, who, it seems, 'kill us for their sport').

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