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Humour and Madness: Early Restoration Comedies
- Nine BBC Radio Full Cast Productions Including The Rover, The Country Wife and More
- By: William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, and others
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Prunella Scales, Maggie Smith, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
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Raunchy, risqué and rebellious, early Restoration comedies were a breath of fresh air for 17th century theatregoers. With Charles II restored to the throne in 1660, Oliver Cromwell's ban on stage performances was rescinded, and for the first time, women were invited to tread the boards as actresses. Playwrights developed a new style of social comedy, packed with amorous escapades, bawdy humour, wicked wit and sexual innuendo. This scintillating anthology showcases six leading lights of early Restoration drama.
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An absolute treasure!
- By Dennis Sommers on 05-12-23
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Humour and Madness: Early Restoration Comedies
- Nine BBC Radio Full Cast Productions Including The Rover, The Country Wife and More
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Prunella Scales, Maggie Smith, Jonathan Pryce, Harriet Walters, Frances Jeater, Denys Hawthorne, Carleton Hobbs, Anna Massey, full cast
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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Intrigue and Satire: Later Restoration Comedies
- 11 BBC Radio Full Cast Productions Including: The Recruiting Officer and The Way of the World and More
- By: Aphra Behn, Susanna Centivre, William Congreve, and others
- Narrated by: Celia Imrie, Sian Thomas, Alex Jennings, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
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England's 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the reign of new monarchs William and Mary signified a turning point for Restoration comedy with laws being passed to restrict playwrights' freedoms. The latter years are marked by a shift towards more moral storylines, mixing humour with social and political issues, alongside the lighthearted 'comedy of manners'. The works in this collection bring together these complementary styles, full of humour while also focusing on hard hitting themes.
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A little varied, but very good.
- By Amazon Customer on 22-04-24
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Intrigue and Satire: Later Restoration Comedies
- 11 BBC Radio Full Cast Productions Including: The Recruiting Officer and The Way of the World and More
- Narrated by: Celia Imrie, Sian Thomas, Alex Jennings, Sheila Hancock, Frances Barber, Indira Varma, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Josie Lawrence, Adjoa Andoh, Hugh Bonneville, Kris Marshall, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Eyre, full cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
- By: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Clare Wille
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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A vivid love story and adventure tale, Oroonoko is a heroic slave narrative about a royal prince and his fight for freedom. The eponymous hero, Oroonoko, deemed royalty in one world and slave in another, is torn from his noble status and betrayed into slavery in Surinam, where he is reduced to chains, fetters, and shackles. But his high spirit and admirable character will not be suppressed.
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Amazing to think this was written in the 1680s
- By Patrick on 02-11-17
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Oroonoko
- Narrated by: Clare Wille
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
- By: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was an English playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer from the Restoration era. Oroonoko (1688) is a unique early example of the novel genre. It employs a first-person narrative from a female perspective and addresses some of the controversial political, economic, and social issues of the time. The injustices of the slave trade are exposed through the author’s graphic account of the cruel realities of life in the English colonies.
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Oroonoko
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 17-07-20
- Language: English
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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave
- By: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. It was also adapted into a play. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution.
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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-01-22
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
- Penguin Classics
- By: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young, Kristin Atherton - introduction
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn's visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the author's romantic view of native peoples as noble savages in 'the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin'.
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- By Chellylou on 06-09-20
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Oroonoko
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young, Kristin Atherton - introduction
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
- By: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, is madly in love with Imoinda, the daughter of the king's general. When the king - who is also in love with Imoinda - catches wind of their affair, he sells Imoinda as a slave. This betrayal sets off a chain of events that carries unforeseen consequences for everybody involved. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko has been hailed as one of the first great English novels and remains a classic of historical fiction.
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Oroonoko
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-03-17
- Language: English
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The Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 1
- By: Aphra Behn, John Donne, John Dryden
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
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The Elizabethan age had almost departed, and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In England the Civil War had brought about the will of Parliament and the replacement of the Crown as the governing body. But with these Puritan times, and the subsequent Restoration, poetry had entered a golden age. John Milton, John Dryden and Ben Jonson are but a few of the luminaries whose great verse followed in the wake of the immortal William Shakespeare.
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The Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 1
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Series: The Poetry of the 17th Century, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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The Female Poets of the Seventeeth Century, Volume 1
- By: Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Anne Kingsmill Finch
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our culture. Whilst this traditional view has some merit, it is not entirely accurate. Here, gathered together in these volumes, we can, through their words, experience their lives; we can hear their voices, their thoughts, joys, loves and losses. For the female poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere. These lines, these gilded verses, often protest otherwise.
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The Female Poets of the Seventeeth Century, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-04-19
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Aphra Behn
- By: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Libby Brunton, Ghizela Rowe, Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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Aphra Behn was a prolific and well-established poet and playwright but facts about her life remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said is that Aphra Behn is regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Her poetry is now far more appreciated and seen as a breakthrough for women of the 17th Century and beyond. Her first play, ‘The Forc’d Marriage’, was staged in 1670, and thereafter many followed, including her later comic works, which were more commercially successful.
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The Poetry of Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Libby Brunton, Ghizela Rowe, Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-07-23
- Language: English
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