"When Classic FM conducted a poll of the nation's 100 favourite poems in June 1997, they were overwhelmed by the response. These compact disks contains all 100 poems, each with an introduction by Mike Read, who conducted the poll on his breakfast show."
"When Classic FM conducted a poll of the nation's 100 favourite poems in June 1997, they were overwhelmed by the response. These cassettes contains all 100 poems, each with an introduction by Mike Read, who conducted the poll on his breakfast show."
"This cassette is part of a series which brings together contemporary actors to read the works of great poets. Spanning the ages, this collection contains readings from Donne by Vanessa and Corin Redgrave, Byron read by John Hannah, and Betjeman read by Nigel Hawthorne."
"All the world's a stage... - JaquesThe complete play in five acts. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. As You Like It is quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts and reconciliation's, and all within the atmospheric confines of the enchanted Forest of Arden. As the title suggests, As You Like It is a play in which everyone gets their way, where sinners are redeemed and where ..."
"As You Like It has long been admired as one of Shakespeare's most exuberant early comedies, complete with one of the Bard's funniest and toughest heroines, Rosalind. Based on Thomas Lodge's Elizabethan novel Rosalynde, As You Like It follows the discontented Orlando as he is exiled from the tyrannical French court of Duke Frederick. By chance Frederick also banishes Rosalind, daughter of the usurped Duke Senior. The play then moves to t ..."
"Aesop's fables present examples of selfishness turning to generosity, deception evolving into honor, and gloom unfolding to pleasure. These are moral tales which have survived since the life of Aesop and have traveled by language and distance. Celebrity performers include Harvey Fierstein, Sharon Stone, Michael York, Eddie Albert, Glenda Jackson, Rod Steiger, Gregory Hines, Cathy Moriarty, Stephanie Beacham, Elliott Gould and Vanessa Re ..."
"Aesop's Fables present examples of selfishness turning to generosity, deception evolving into honor, and gloom unfolding to pleasure. These are moral tales which have survived since Aesop in the sixth century, B.C., and have traveled across transformed language and great distance. Celebrity performers include Tia Carrere, Glenda Jackson, Efram Zimbalist, Jr., Sharon Stone and Alfre Woodard."
"A sonnet is a structured poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. William Shakespeare is the acknowledged master of this medium, turning each set of 140 syllables into miniature dramas about love, lust, betrayal, shame, and death. Shakespeare's sonnets tend to be overshadowed by his plays, but these poems are often considered to be among the greatest of all time. The 154 sonnets in this collection are joined by "A Lover's Complain ..."