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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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Kidnapped
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Kidnapped

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Performed By : Colonial Radio Theatre
Publisher : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
Runtime : 2 hours 23 minutes
Categories : Audio Theater
Drama
Dramatizations
Classics
Action & Adventure
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David Balfour: a young man cheated out of his inheritance. Alan Breck Stewart: a Jacobite returning to his native land. Together they embark on a perilous adventure across the highlands of Scotland, falsely accused of murder. The Colonial Radio Theatre's epic production of Robert Louis Stevenson's magnificent adventure is possibly the grandest audio theatre presentation of this classic tale ever produced.
Starring
Jerry Robbins
Deniz Cordell
Joseph Zamparelli Jr
Jeffrey Gage

Executive producer Mark Vander Berg
Dramatized, Produced and Directed by Jerry Robbins.
Music By Jeffrey Gage.

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