A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act 1 Public Domain Audio Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act 1 Public Domain Audio Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae Public Domain Audio Theatre

dramatus personae of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare dramatus personae theseus duke of athens played by mark smith aegis father to hermia read by john leader bloomington illinois lysander in love with hermia read by mb demetrius in love with hermia read by david o'connell philistrate master of the rebels to theseus read by philippa jevons london quince a carpenter read by brian edwards queensland australia snug read by elizabeth clatt the part of bottom read by simon taylor francis flute read by david nicholl

a tinker read by john leader bloomington illinois starvilling a taylor read by jessica miller australia hippolyta queen of the amazons betrothed to theseus read by corey samuel hermia daughter to igeas in love with lysander read by laurie ann walden helena in love with demetrius read by rosalind wills of silver spring maryland the part of oberon read by father zeily the part of titania read by deborah irving puck or robin goodfellow performed by karen savage peace blossom a fairy read by larissa jaworski brisbane australia cobweb a fairy read by charlene v smith moth read by alana jordan united states mustard seed a fairy read by jamie ashian stage direction read by paul williams end of dramatus personae

A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae Public Domain Audio Theatre

dramatus personae of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare dramatus personae theseus duke of athens played by mark smith aegis father to hermia read by john leader bloomington illinois lysander in love with hermia read by mb demetrius in love with hermia read by david o'connell philistrate master of the rebels to theseus read by philippa jevons london quince a carpenter read by brian edwards queensland australia snug read by elizabeth clatt the part of bottom read by simon taylor francis flute read by david nicholl

a tinker read by john leader bloomington illinois starvilling a taylor read by jessica miller australia hippolyta queen of the amazons betrothed to theseus read by corey samuel hermia daughter to igeas in love with lysander read by laurie ann walden helena in love with demetrius read by rosalind wills of silver spring maryland the part of oberon read by father zeily the part of titania read by deborah irving puck or robin goodfellow performed by karen savage peace blossom a fairy read by larissa jaworski brisbane australia cobweb a fairy read by charlene v smith moth read by alana jordan united states mustard seed a fairy read by jamie ashian stage direction read by paul williams end of dramatus personae

Tale of Tom Kitten Beatrix Potter Free Downloads Public Domain Kids' Audio Books.

the tale of ginger and pickles by beatrix potter this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to find out how you can volunteer please visit librivox.org once upon a time there was a village shop the name over the window was ginger and pickles it was a little small shop just the right size for dolls lucinda and jane doll cook always brought their groceries at ginger and pickles the counter inside was a convenient height for rabbits ginger and pickles sold red spotty pocket handkerchiefs at a penny three four things they also sold sugar and snuff and galoshes in fact although it was such a small shop it sold nearly everything except a few things that you want in a hurry like boot laces hairpins and mutton shops ginger and pickles were the people who kept the shop ginger was a yellow tomcat and pickles was a terrier rabbits were always a little bit afraid of pickles shop was also patronized by mice only the mice were rather afraid of ginger ginger usually requested pickles to serve them because he said it made his mouth water i cannot bear said he to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels i have the same feeling about rats replied pickles but it would never do to eat our own customers they would leave us and go to tabitha twitchetts on the contrary they would go nowhere replied ginger gloomily tabitha twitchit kept the only other shop in the village she did not give credit ginger and pickles gave unlimited credit now the meaning of credit is this when a customer buys a bar of soap instead of the customer pulling out a purse and paying for it she says she will pay another time and pickles makes a low ball and says with pleasure mom and it is written down in a book the customers come again and again and again and by quantities in spite of being afraid of ginger and pickles but there's no money in what is called the till

the customers came in crowds every day and bought quantities especially the toffee customers but there was always no money they never paid for as much as a penny worth of peppermints but the sales were enormous ten times as large as the bitter twitches as there was always no money ginger and pickles were obliged to eat their own goods pickles ate biscuits and ginger ate a dried haddock they ate them by the candlelight after the shop was closed when it came to jan first this was still no money and pickles was unable to buy a dog license which is very unpleasant i am afraid of the police said pickles it is your own fault for being a terrier i do not require a license and neither does kept the collie dog it is very uncomfortable i am afraid i shall be summoned i have tried in vain to get a license upon credit at the post office said pickles the place is full of policemen i met one as i was coming home let us send in the bill again to samuel whiskers ginger he owes 22.9 for bacon i do not believe that he intends to pee at all said ginger and i feel sure that anna maria pockets things where are all the cream crackers you have eaten them yourself replied ginger ginger and pickles retired into the back parlour they did accounts they arrowed up sons and sons and sons and sons samuel whiskers has run up a bill as long as a stale and he has had an ounce and three quarters of snuff since october what is seven pounds of butter at one third and a stick of ceiling wax in four matches send in all the bills again to everyone with calm replied ginger after a time they heard a noise in the shop as if some thing had been pushed in at the door they came out of the back parlor there was an envelope lying on the counter and a policeman writing in a notebook because nearly had her fit he barked and barked and made little rushes

but pickles bite him spluttered ginger behind a sugar barrel he's only a german doll the policeman went on writing in...

Tale of Tom Kitten Beatrix Potter Free Downloads Public Domain Kids' Audio Books.

the tale of ginger and pickles by beatrix potter this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to find out how you can volunteer please visit librivox.org once upon a time there was a village shop the name over the window was ginger and pickles it was a little small shop just the right size for dolls lucinda and jane doll cook always brought their groceries at ginger and pickles the counter inside was a convenient height for rabbits ginger and pickles sold red spotty pocket handkerchiefs at a penny three four things they also sold sugar and snuff and galoshes in fact although it was such a small shop it sold nearly everything except a few things that you want in a hurry like boot laces hairpins and mutton shops ginger and pickles were the people who kept the shop ginger was a yellow tomcat and pickles was a terrier rabbits were always a little bit afraid of pickles shop was also patronized by mice only the mice were rather afraid of ginger ginger usually requested pickles to serve them because he said it made his mouth water i cannot bear said he to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels i have the same feeling about rats replied pickles but it would never do to eat our own customers they would leave us and go to tabitha twitchetts on the contrary they would go nowhere replied ginger gloomily tabitha twitchit kept the only other shop in the village she did not give credit ginger and pickles gave unlimited credit now the meaning of credit is this when a customer buys a bar of soap instead of the customer pulling out a purse and paying for it she says she will pay another time and pickles makes a low ball and says with pleasure mom and it is written down in a book the customers come again and again and again and by quantities in spite of being afraid of ginger and pickles but there's no money in what is called the till

the customers came in crowds every day and bought quantities especially the toffee customers but there was always no money they never paid for as much as a penny worth of peppermints but the sales were enormous ten times as large as the bitter twitches as there was always no money ginger and pickles were obliged to eat their own goods pickles ate biscuits and ginger ate a dried haddock they ate them by the candlelight after the shop was closed when it came to jan first this was still no money and pickles was unable to buy a dog license which is very unpleasant i am afraid of the police said pickles it is your own fault for being a terrier i do not require a license and neither does kept the collie dog it is very uncomfortable i am afraid i shall be summoned i have tried in vain to get a license upon credit at the post office said pickles the place is full of policemen i met one as i was coming home let us send in the bill again to samuel whiskers ginger he owes 22.9 for bacon i do not believe that he intends to pee at all said ginger and i feel sure that anna maria pockets things where are all the cream crackers you have eaten them yourself replied ginger ginger and pickles retired into the back parlour they did accounts they arrowed up sons and sons and sons and sons samuel whiskers has run up a bill as long as a stale and he has had an ounce and three quarters of snuff since october what is seven pounds of butter at one third and a stick of ceiling wax in four matches send in all the bills again to everyone with calm replied ginger after a time they heard a noise in the shop as if some thing had been pushed in at the door they came out of the back parlor there was an envelope lying on the counter and a policeman writing in a notebook because nearly had her fit he barked and barked and made little rushes

but pickles bite him spluttered ginger behind a sugar barrel he's only a german doll the policeman went on writing in...

Tale of Ginger and Pickles Beatrix Potter Free Downloads Public Domain Kids' Audio Books.

the tale of ginger and pickles by beatrix potter this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to find out how you can volunteer please visit librivox.org once upon a time there was a village shop the name over the window was ginger and pickles it was a little small shop just the right size for dolls lucinda and jane doll cook always brought their groceries at ginger and pickles the counter inside was a convenient height for rabbits ginger and pickles sold red spotty pocket handkerchiefs at a penny three four things they also sold sugar and snuff and galoshes in fact although it was such a small shop it sold nearly everything except a few things that you want in a hurry like boot laces hairpins and mutton shops ginger and pickles were the people who kept the shop ginger was a yellow tomcat and pickles was a terrier rabbits were always a little bit afraid of pickles shop was also patronized by mice only the mice were rather afraid of ginger ginger usually requested pickles to serve them because he said it made his mouth water i cannot bear said he to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels i have the same feeling about rats replied pickles but it would never do to eat our own customers they would leave us and go to tabitha twitchetts on the contrary they would go nowhere replied ginger gloomily tabitha twitchit kept the only other shop in the village she did not give credit ginger and pickles gave unlimited credit now the meaning of credit is this when a customer buys a bar of soap instead of the customer pulling out a purse and paying for it she says she will pay another time and pickles makes a low ball and says with pleasure mom and it is written down in a book the customers come again and again and again and by quantities in spite of being afraid of ginger and pickles but there's no money in what is called the till

the customers came in crowds every day and bought quantities especially the toffee customers but there was always no money they never paid for as much as a penny worth of peppermints but the sales were enormous ten times as large as the bitter twitches as there was always no money ginger and pickles were obliged to eat their own goods pickles ate biscuits and ginger ate a dried haddock they ate them by the candlelight after the shop was closed when it came to jan first this was still no money and pickles was unable to buy a dog license which is very unpleasant i am afraid of the police said pickles it is your own fault for being a terrier i do not require a license and neither does kept the collie dog it is very uncomfortable i am afraid i shall be summoned i have tried in vain to get a license upon credit at the post office said pickles the place is full of policemen i met one as i was coming home let us send in the bill again to samuel whiskers ginger he owes 22.9 for bacon i do not believe that he intends to pee at all said ginger and i feel sure that anna maria pockets things where are all the cream crackers you have eaten them yourself replied ginger ginger and pickles retired into the back parlour they did accounts they arrowed up sons and sons and sons and sons samuel whiskers has run up a bill as long as a stale and he has had an ounce and three quarters of snuff since october what is seven pounds of butter at one third and a stick of ceiling wax in four matches send in all the bills again to everyone with calm replied ginger after a time they heard a noise in the shop as if some thing had been pushed in at the door they came out of the back parlor there was an envelope lying on the counter and a policeman writing in a notebook because nearly had her fit he barked and barked and made little rushes

but pickles bite him spluttered ginger behind a sugar barrel he's only a german doll the policeman went on...

Tale of Ginger and Pickles Beatrix Potter Free Downloads Public Domain Kids' Audio Books.

the tale of ginger and pickles by beatrix potter this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to find out how you can volunteer please visit librivox.org once upon a time there was a village shop the name over the window was ginger and pickles it was a little small shop just the right size for dolls lucinda and jane doll cook always brought their groceries at ginger and pickles the counter inside was a convenient height for rabbits ginger and pickles sold red spotty pocket handkerchiefs at a penny three four things they also sold sugar and snuff and galoshes in fact although it was such a small shop it sold nearly everything except a few things that you want in a hurry like boot laces hairpins and mutton shops ginger and pickles were the people who kept the shop ginger was a yellow tomcat and pickles was a terrier rabbits were always a little bit afraid of pickles shop was also patronized by mice only the mice were rather afraid of ginger ginger usually requested pickles to serve them because he said it made his mouth water i cannot bear said he to see them going out at the door carrying their little parcels i have the same feeling about rats replied pickles but it would never do to eat our own customers they would leave us and go to tabitha twitchetts on the contrary they would go nowhere replied ginger gloomily tabitha twitchit kept the only other shop in the village she did not give credit ginger and pickles gave unlimited credit now the meaning of credit is this when a customer buys a bar of soap instead of the customer pulling out a purse and paying for it she says she will pay another time and pickles makes a low ball and says with pleasure mom and it is written down in a book the customers come again and again and again and by quantities in spite of being afraid of ginger and pickles but there's no money in what is called the till

the customers came in crowds every day and bought quantities especially the toffee customers but there was always no money they never paid for as much as a penny worth of peppermints but the sales were enormous ten times as large as the bitter twitches as there was always no money ginger and pickles were obliged to eat their own goods pickles ate biscuits and ginger ate a dried haddock they ate them by the candlelight after the shop was closed when it came to jan first this was still no money and pickles was unable to buy a dog license which is very unpleasant i am afraid of the police said pickles it is your own fault for being a terrier i do not require a license and neither does kept the collie dog it is very uncomfortable i am afraid i shall be summoned i have tried in vain to get a license upon credit at the post office said pickles the place is full of policemen i met one as i was coming home let us send in the bill again to samuel whiskers ginger he owes 22.9 for bacon i do not believe that he intends to pee at all said ginger and i feel sure that anna maria pockets things where are all the cream crackers you have eaten them yourself replied ginger ginger and pickles retired into the back parlour they did accounts they arrowed up sons and sons and sons and sons samuel whiskers has run up a bill as long as a stale and he has had an ounce and three quarters of snuff since october what is seven pounds of butter at one third and a stick of ceiling wax in four matches send in all the bills again to everyone with calm replied ginger after a time they heard a noise in the shop as if some thing had been pushed in at the door they came out of the back parlor there was an envelope lying on the counter and a policeman writing in a notebook because nearly had her fit he barked and barked and made little rushes

but pickles bite him spluttered ginger behind a sugar barrel he's only a german doll the policeman went on...

act 5 of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act five scene one athens the palace of theseus enter theseus hippolyta philistrate lords and attendance to strange my thesis that these lovers speak of more strange than true i never may believe these antique fables nor these fairy toys lovers and mad men have such seething brains such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends the lunatic the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact one sees more devils than vast hell can hold that is the madman the lover all is frantic sees helen's beauty and a brow of egypt the poet's eye and fine frenzy rolling doth glance from heaven to earth from earth to heaven and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to arie nothing a local habitation and a name such tricks have strong imagination that if it would but apprehend some joy it comprehends some bringer of that joy or in the night imagining some fear how easy is a bush supposed to bear but all the story of the night told over and all their minds transfigured so together more witnesses than fancy's images and grows to something of great constancy but however strange and admirable here come the lovers full of joy and mirth enter lysander demetrius hermia and helena friends joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts more than to us wait in your royal walks your board your bed come now what masks what dances shall we have to wear away this long age of three hours between our after supper and bedtime where is our usual manager of mirth what revels are in hand is there no play to ease the anguish of a torturing hour call phyllis strait here mighty theseus say what abridgement have you for this evening what mask what music how shall we beguile the lazy time if not with some delight there is a brief how many sports are ripe make choice of which your highness will see first giving a paper reads the battle with the centaurs to be sung by an athenian eunuch to the harp will none of that that have i told my love and glory of my kinsmen hercules the riot of the tipsy baccanals tearing the thracian singer in their rage that is an old device and it was played when i from thebes came last to conqueror the thrice three muses borning for the death of learning late deceased and beggary that is some satire keen and critical not sorting with a nuptial ceremony a tedious brief scene of young pyramus and his love thisbe very tragical mirth merry and tragical tedious and brief that is hot ice and wondrous strange snow how shall we find the concorde of this discord a play there is my lord some ten words long which is as brief as i have known a play but by ten words my lord it is too long which makes it tedious for in all the play there is not one word apt one player fitted and tragical my lord it is for pyramus therein doth kill himself which when i saw rehearsed i must confess made mine eyes water but more merry tears the passion of loud laughter never shed what are they that do play it hard-handed men that work in athens here which never labored in their mind still now and now have toiled their unbreathed memories with this same play against your nuptial and we will hear it no my noble lord it is not for you i have heard it over and it is nothing nothing in the world unless you can find sport in their intense extremely stretched and conned with cruel pain to do you service i will hear that play for never anything can be a mess when simpleness and duty tender it go bring them in and take your places ladies exit philistrate i love not to see wretchedness overcharged and duty in his service perishing why gentle sweet you shall see no such thing he says they can do nothing in this kind the kinder we to give them thanks for nothing our...

act 5 of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act five scene one athens the palace of theseus enter theseus hippolyta philistrate lords and attendance to strange my thesis that these lovers speak of more strange than true i never may believe these antique fables nor these fairy toys lovers and mad men have such seething brains such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends the lunatic the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact one sees more devils than vast hell can hold that is the madman the lover all is frantic sees helen's beauty and a brow of egypt the poet's eye and fine frenzy rolling doth glance from heaven to earth from earth to heaven and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to arie nothing a local habitation and a name such tricks have strong imagination that if it would but apprehend some joy it comprehends some bringer of that joy or in the night imagining some fear how easy is a bush supposed to bear but all the story of the night told over and all their minds transfigured so together more witnesses than fancy's images and grows to something of great constancy but however strange and admirable here come the lovers full of joy and mirth enter lysander demetrius hermia and helena friends joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts more than to us wait in your royal walks your board your bed come now what masks what dances shall we have to wear away this long age of three hours between our after supper and bedtime where is our usual manager of mirth what revels are in hand is there no play to ease the anguish of a torturing hour call phyllis strait here mighty theseus say what abridgement have you for this evening what mask what music how shall we beguile the lazy time if not with some delight there is a brief how many sports are ripe make choice of which your highness will see first giving a paper reads the battle with the centaurs to be sung by an athenian eunuch to the harp will none of that that have i told my love and glory of my kinsmen hercules the riot of the tipsy baccanals tearing the thracian singer in their rage that is an old device and it was played when i from thebes came last to conqueror the thrice three muses borning for the death of learning late deceased and beggary that is some satire keen and critical not sorting with a nuptial ceremony a tedious brief scene of young pyramus and his love thisbe very tragical mirth merry and tragical tedious and brief that is hot ice and wondrous strange snow how shall we find the concorde of this discord a play there is my lord some ten words long which is as brief as i have known a play but by ten words my lord it is too long which makes it tedious for in all the play there is not one word apt one player fitted and tragical my lord it is for pyramus therein doth kill himself which when i saw rehearsed i must confess made mine eyes water but more merry tears the passion of loud laughter never shed what are they that do play it hard-handed men that work in athens here which never labored in their mind still now and now have toiled their unbreathed memories with this same play against your nuptial and we will hear it no my noble lord it is not for you i have heard it over and it is nothing nothing in the world unless you can find sport in their intense extremely stretched and conned with cruel pain to do you service i will hear that play for never anything can be a mess when simpleness and duty tender it go bring them in and take your places ladies exit philistrate i love not to see wretchedness overcharged and duty in his service perishing why gentle sweet you shall see no such thing he says they can do nothing in this kind the kinder we to give them thanks for nothing our...