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Mistaken identity (which the Elizabethans called “Error”) is nearly always amusing, whether on the stage or in actual life. The Comedy of Errors is a play in which this situation is developed to the extreme of improbability – but we lose sight of this improbability in the roaring fun which results. Nowadays we should call a play of this type a farce, since most of the fun comes from situations which are improbable and the play depends on these for success, rather than on characterization or dialogue. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors draws on a much older play, Menaechmi, written by the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 B.C.). A merchant of Syracuse has twin sons and buys twin servants for them. His wife, with one twin and one servant, is soon separated from him by a shipwreck, and comes to live in Ephesus. When grown, the other son and his slave start out to find their brothers, and the father, some years later, starts out in turn to find them. Once in Ephesus, an amusing series of errors begins. The wife takes the wrong twin for her husband, the master beats the wrong slave, the wrong son disowns his father, the twin at Ephesus is arrested instead of his brother, and the twin slave Dromio of Syracuse is claimed as a husband by a black kitchen girl of Ephesus. The situation gets more and more mixed, until at last the real identity of the strangers from Syracuse is established, and all ends happily. Featuring the voices of Susan Iannucci, Gary MacFadden, David Shears, Dara Brown, Blaise Doran, Aisling Gray, Claudia Anglade, Kendra Murray and P.J. Morgan

William Shakespeare (Author), A Full Cast, Aisling Gray, Blaise Doran, Claudia Anglade, Dara Brown, David Shears, Gary Macfadden, Kendra Murray, Pj Morgan, Susan Iannucci (Narrator)

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Alls Well That Ends Well

This play is a dramatization of Boccaccio’s story of Gillette of Narbonne. Only the comic parts were of Shakespeare’s invention; he added the characters of the pusillanimous Parolles, the lofty courtier Lafew, the Clown Lavatch, and the long suffering Countess. He gave new depth and vitality to the leading characters, who are mere outlines in Boccaccio’s tale. The comedy has for its heroine a young woman who loves the haughty Bertram with an unrequited and despised passion, cures the King of France of a dangerous sickness, claims as her reward the right to choose a husband from among the courtiers, chooses Bertram, is repudiated by him, and, after a nocturnal meeting at which she takes the place of another woman whom he believes himself to have seduced, at last overcomes his resistance and is acknowledged as his wife. In Helena, Shakespeare drew a portrait of familiar type of loving and cruelly maltreated womanhood—the woman who suffers everything in inexhaustible tenderness and humility, and never falters in her love until in the end she wins the rebellious heart.

William Shakespeare (Author), A Full Cast, Aisling Gray, Claudia Anglade, David Shears, Denis Daly, Emma Faye, Gary Macfadden, John Burlinson, Kendra Murray, Linda Barrans, Marty Krz, Pj Morgan (Narrator)

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The Magical Eggs on Dragon's Lair

ABOUT THE BOOK: Twins, Adam and Evette, don’t have a reputation of being well behaved children when outside the home. While staying at their grandparent’s home, their grandfather tells them a story how their island home, Dragon’s Lair, got its name. The story inspires the twins to search the beach caves. They discover an old chest of drawers. The whole chest drawers which act as a door, swings open to a primeval world where the twins steal three eggs: a bronze, a silver and a gold. The eggs are hidden in their cubby house where they become alive and demand the children carry out tasks. Find out what the twins have to do to avoid punishment and to receive rewards from the eggs.

Gina Sano (Author), Aisling Gray (Narrator)

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When Is It Going To Rain?

Gina Sano (Author), Aisling Gray (Narrator)

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The Story of Wellesley

In 1875, Wellesley college opened its doors to women. The Story of Wellesley, written over a hundred years ago, by Florence Converse, a Wellesley professor and graduate herself, tells of the first 40 years of this remarkable school. Henry Fowle Durant founded it with a very specific philosophy which grew and changed as the decades passed. The first six presidents each approached their duty with different talents and goals. Students flourished and became supporting alumnae. Although the individuals mentioned in the Story of Wellesley have all passed into history, their legacy and influence lives on in the alumni and students of today. Narrated by three Wellesley alumnae.

Florence Converse (Author), Aisling Gray, Jennifer Fournier, Karina Ithier (Narrator)

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Rough Justice

Mallt-y-Nos. Matilda of the Hunt. The lone woman who rides with the Wild Hunt, tasked with finding killers who've escaped justice and letting the hounds reap their souls. For Olivia Taylor-Jones, Matilda isn't just a legendary figure from Welsh lore. She is Olivia's past, and her future, one she's finally embraced. Having accepted her role as Matilda, Olivia must now lead her first Hunt. Seems simple enough. But when she questions their target's guilt, the Hunt is halted, her mission failed. Still, it's just a matter of getting Gabriel's help and investigating the man's past to reassure herself that he's guilty. He must be. Otherwise, he wouldn't be a target. But the deeper she digs, the more problems she finds, until she must question everything she knows about the Hunt and the choice she's made.

Kelley Armstrong (Author), Aisling Gray, Jonathan Waters (Narrator)

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Portents: A Collection of Cainsville Tales

Cainsville, Illinois. A town founded by fae escaping the Old World. A town both part of the world and cut off from it. A town that a young woman will run to, fleeing her past, only to discover that her past extends further than she ever imagined, into the distant history of Cainville itself.Collected in this volume are the stories of the town's past, of the people and the fae she will eventually meet.A child tormented by visions of fae castles and fierce dragons.A hobgoblin who tries in vain to avoid his role in an ancient prophecy.A boy, the product of that prophecy, who wants only a Solstice gift for his aunt.A writer who discovers all publicity is not really good publicity after all.An orange cat who won't quite stay dead.Another cat with more than his nine lives, one continually reborn to right an ancient wrong.And, finally, a story of Olivia herself, the young woman who ran there, now running away, searching for something she can't quite find.*******************************************************************************Collection Contents:1) The Screams of Dragons2) Devil May Care3) Gabriel's Gargoyles4) Bad Publicity5) The Orange Cat6) Matagot - brand-new for this collection7) The Lady of the Lake

Kelley Armstrong (Author), Aisling Gray, Aisling Gray; Curt Bonnem; Henry Jones, Curt Bonnem, D. C. Cole, Henry Jones, Jonathan Waters (Narrator)

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