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    06/08/2024
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    Orlando Furioso (Canti 05-12)

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    Sono i canti dal quinto al dodicesimo del poema cavalleresco Orlando Furioso, in cui si intrecciano numerose vicende fantastiche incentrate sull’amore di Orlando (e di molti altri) per la bellissima ma ritrosa Angelica, fino a che Orlando impazzisce sapendo che Angelica si è unita al giovane Medoro, per cui il suo senno dovrà essere recuperato da Astolofo sulla luna cui giungerà in sella al mitico cavallo alato Ippogrifo. In questi canti si intrecciano molte vicende, con vari personaggi tra cui, oltre a Orlando, Angelica, Ruggero, Astolfo, Melissa, Olimpia, Alcina ed altri. (Riassunto di Pier) Personaggi e interpreti: Narrator: Pier Rinaldo: Francesco Carzedda Dalinda: Sabina Ariodante: Algy Pug Lurcanio: Algy Pug Polinesso: Pier Viandante: Renzo Clerico Scudiero: Kazbek Astolfo: Claudia Caldi Ruggiero: Kazbek I giovane su liocorno: Claudia Graziano II giovane su liocorno: Sabina Alcina: Sabina Melissa: Ruti Pape Angelica: Marzia Marianera Servo con augel grifagno: Sandra Schmit Orlando: Sabina Voce misteriosa: Sonia Olimpia: Emanuela Donzella del battello: Sabina Donna della corte di Alcina: Sonia Logistilla: Sandra Schmit Nocchiero: Francesco Carzedda Affabile cavaliere: Eleonora Bettenzoli I voce turba di Arzildo: Serena II voce turba di Arzildo: Pier Morte: Sonia Paride: Chris Tugnoli Ferraù: Kazbek Sacripante: Kazbek     [chương_files]  

    06/08/2024
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    Aladdin, Or, The Wonderful Lamp (A Dramatic Poem, in Two Parts)

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    This retelling of Aladdin in dramatic verse begins in the humble home of a tailor, whose son spends his days in idleness and brings his parents nothing but grief. Soon, however, this son is brought to a magical grotto, where he finds a great treasure which will bring him his fortune. This story will have some twists and turns that are almost certain to be different from the story you know. – Summary by Devorah Allen Cast: Tomas Peter: Aladdin Jenn Broda: Gulnare, the Princess Michele Eaton: Nurse to Gulnare Availle: Morgiana, Aladdin’s Mother Algy Pug: Soliman, the Sultan Tommy Hersant: Vizir to Soliman Adrian Stephens: Saladin, betrothed to Gulnare ToddHW: The Enchanter, Noureddin VocalPenguin: Hindbad, Noureddin’s brother Sonia: Spirit of the Lamp Phil Schempf: Spirit of the Ring Donzo: Selim Tindra: Slave Gerald Moe: Jester HelenaDiamandiz: Court Jew Diane Castillo: Old Man czandra: Second Courtier Chuck Williamson: Servant of the Court Anya: Captain of the Body Guard Eleonora Bettenzoli: Spider Kristine Wales: Voice of the Trees Linda Olsen Fitak: First Fairy Twinkle: Peasant; Second Fairy ambsweet13: Zephyr; Second Elf FreckleFriday: Bedreddin; Lympha, a Fairy Thoria: Master Mason; First Courtier; Deathwatch Pier: First Lord of the Treasury; Strength, a Giant Michael L. Hooper: Second Lord of the Treasury Tchaikovsky: Architect; Apothecary; Owner of the House Lydia: Zulima, Soliman’s Wife; Peribanou, Queen of the Fairies; Fatima Doug Fajardo: Sindbad; Grocer; Sentinel; Laborer; Headsman David Purdy: Ali; Casem; Goldsmith; Sculptor; First Elf; Good Spirits Devorah Allen: Nightingale; Melpomene; Female Bird; Beauty, a […]

    06/08/2024
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    Tannhäuser

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    The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, reveals his sins during a song contest and is forced to undertake a pilgrimage to Rome to seek absolution from the Pope. The text of Richard Wagner’s opera is here freely translated as a dramatic poem. – Summary by Alan Mapstone     [chương_files]  

    06/08/2024
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    Man in the Panther’s Skin

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    Georgian mediæval epic poem written in the time of the Golden Age of Queen Tamar. Couched in the chivalric language of the 12th Century, it tells a classic tale of love in all its forms, and is an allegory of the great Queen herself. The book is required reading for all school students in Georgia and a copy went with each bride to her new home as a part of her dowry. This prose rendering was the first in English. – Summary by Beeswaxcandle     [chương_files]  

    06/08/2024
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    Divina commedia – Hel

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    Het doel van deze vertaling is den Nederlandschen lezer in kennis te stellen met den volledigen inhoud van Dante’s Gedicht. De vertaling is zooveel mogelijk woordelijk, kan dus ook als handleiding dienen bij het lezen en bestudeeren van den oorspronkelijken, Italiaanschen tekst. De vertaling is in Proza. Waarom? Omdat de woorden, waarin het Gedicht vervat is, den dichter werden ingegeven in het scheppingsoogenblik door de volheid zijner fantasieën, gevoelens en gedachten zelve. Ook in het practisch-onmogelijke, maar theoretisch stelbare geval dat de vertaler evenzeer vervuld ware als de dichter van hetgeen uitgedrukt moet worden, zoude het onmogelijk zijn, dat de tweede, de Nederlandsche dichter kwam tot een uitdrukkingsvorm, die ook maar eenigszins gelijkliep met den vorm door den eersten, den Italiaanschen dichter gevonden. Dante zelf zegt op dit stuk: „En daarom wete een ieder, dat geen enkele zaak, door den band der muziek harmonisch uitgedrukt, uit hare eigene taal in eene andere kan worden overgebracht, zonder dat men al hare zoetheid en harmonie verbreke. (Summary taken from introduction of the book by H.J. Boeken)     [chương_files]  

    06/08/2024
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    Cinnamon and Angelica

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    “Was ever love like this? If verily there was, why was it not set down in story or in song? Or were they dumb on whom it did descend? Or has it been that lover’s speech is like the nightingales, heard, but for ever lost to mortal ear till yet another angel-voice uplifts the earth into the sky?” A poetic drama in which the forces of the Peppercorns face the forces of the Cloves. – Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Cinnamon – Prince of the Peppercorns: Greg Giordano Mace – The Colonel-in-Command of the Peppercorn Army: miaroy Marjoram – Captain of Halberdiers to Angelica: Chuck Williamson Angelica – Princess of the Cloves: Jenn Broda Caraway – Mistress of the Bedchamber to Angelica: Dawn Sutton Vanilla Bean – Housekeeper to Cinnamon: Marie Christian An Orderly to Captain Marjoram: David Purdy Stage Directions and Editing: ToddHW     [chương_files]  

    06/08/2024
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    Lusíadas

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    Camões (1524-1580) é o maior poeta da nossa língua, e Os Lusíadas a sua obra maior. Publicada em 1572, é poema épico em dez cantos, narrando os feitos dos Portugueses em suas guerras e descobertas marítimas, em uma visão maravilhosa e exaltada, grandiosa e de comovente patriotismo. Apesar das barreiras que se põem ao leitor moderno, as referências mitológicas às vezes recônditas, as menções a episódios e personagens históricos menos conhecidos, a sua modernidade é surpreendente e a pessoa do poeta se impõe admirável, concreta e única em sua genialidade. A força da linguagem, a beleza dos seus versos, desafia qualquer comentário. (Summary by zaaf) Camões (1524-1580) is considered Portugal’s greatest poet, and Os Lusiadas, his masterpiece. Published in 1572, this epic poem in ten cantos sings of the deeds of the Portuguese in their warfare and overseas discoveries, in an exalted vision of wonder, grandiloquence and moving patriotism. Once the obvious obstacles to the modern reader are surmounted, such as arcane mythological references or mentions to lesser known historic passages and characters, the modernity of this work may be surprising, and the author’s persona emerges in his unique, concrete and admirable geniality. The strength of his diction and the beauty of his verses simply defy words. (Summary translated by Leni)     [chương_files]  

    06/08/2024
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    Myszeis

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    “Myszeis” (znany także jako “Myszeidos pieśni X”) to chronologicznie pierwszy z trzech poematów heroikomicznych Ignacego Krasickiego. Poeta wyśmiewa w nim niektóre współczesne sobie zjawiska za pomocą opowieści o wielkiej wojnie między myszami i szczurami po jednej stronie, a kotami i ludźmi po drugiej. Król Popiel, po krótkim okresie faworyzowania myszy, zmienia zdanie i czyni swoim faworytem kota. Wkrótce nastaje wielkie prześladowanie myszy i szczurów, a te postanawiają odpowiedzieć kontratakiem. Wybucha wojna… Wzorując poemat na “Iliadzie” poeta nadał uczestniczącym postaciom zwierzęcym imiona mające pasować swoją rangą do epickiego charakteru opowieści. Odbiorca znajdzie też tu sceny podniosłych przemów i wielkich bitew. (Summary by Piotr Nater)     [chương_files]  

    05/08/2024
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    Hermann und Dorothea

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    Veröffentlicht 1797. Hermann und Dorothea ist ein Epos in neun Gesängen von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Die Gesänge tragen die Namen der antiken griechischen Musen. Ein Treck deutscher Flüchtlinge zieht, den Feind auf den Fersen, ostwärts, überquert den Rhein und nähert sich dem Ort der Handlung im Sommer kurz vor der Getreideernte. Dieser Ort ist eine rechtsrheinische Kleinstadt. Während seiner Teilnahme an der Kampagne in Frankreich hatte Goethe 1792 die Flucht linksrheinischer Deutscher nach Osten miterlebt. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia)     [chương_files]  

    05/08/2024
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    Paradis Perdu

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    Comme Virgile a développé l’épopée à célébrer l’origine de sa propre patrie, Milton l’a adaptée encore plus pour raconter l’origine du mal et le remède à la chute de l’homme; c’est ce sujet qu’il appelle “des choses qui n’ont encore été tentées ni en prose ni en vers.” L’auteur continue à combiner l’innovation et la tradition quand il débute le premier livre “in medias res” avec la visite au monde infernal (cf. Odyssée livre 11, l’Enéide livre 6), car la malice de Satan est le principe déterminant de l’action négative. Mais au centre du poème se trouve le triomphe du Fils de Dieu sur les anges rebelles, ce qui neutralise le projet nocif de Satan. Ce dessein de la conquête du mal par le bien se présage dans les deux conseils d’état: En enfer Satan s’engage à trouver et ruiner la nouvelle création lorsqu’au ciel le Fils s’offre comme sacrifice pour sauver l’homme avant que Satan ne l’ait corrompu. Après ces préliminaires, nous voyons Eden et “nos premiers parents.” Satan, découvert en train de les épier, est expulsé du jardin. Puis Dieu charge un ange d’expliquer à Adam et Ève l’histoire de la guerre au ciel, où a commencé le danger imminent. À la demande d’Adam, l’ange raconte la création du monde visible et surtout le développement naturel: Toute croissance se déroule de l’assimilation de la nourriture; le mangeur épure la pâture, non pas vice versa. Cependant, Satan, qui rentre dans le paradis sous forme de serpent, apprend à Ève […]