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William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure (version 3)
Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare's more enigmatic works. As one of the so-called «problem plays,» it mixes a dark plot with light overtones, without resolving the tensions inherent in either. Its...
2 hours 42 minutes
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Hyakuzō Kurata - Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called «The Priest & His Disciples» («Shukke to sono...
5 hours 44 minutes
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Henrik Ibsen - Little Eyolf (Mencken Translation)
One of the four profound plays of Ibsen’s late period (along with “The Master Builder,” “John Gabriel Borkman,” and “When We Dead Awaken”), “Little Eyolf” tells the story of Albert Allmers, a writer who has yearned to...
2 hours 38 minutes