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        <itunes:summary>Welcome to Brendan Moir&#39;s Playwright Corner, where I read plays, poems, or whatever&#39;s currently striking my fancy in the classic audio book format. Prepare to be filled with joy, hope, rage, envy, despair, and even morbid curiosity as we embark on this unique adventure of charting out humanity&#39;s various frivolities.</itunes:summary>
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                <itunes:title>Alfred Lord Tennyson: Juvenilia, Pt. 3</itunes:title>
                <title>Alfred Lord Tennyson: Juvenilia, Pt. 3</title>

                <itunes:episode>22</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>3</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p><span>As a collection of Tennyson&#39;s early works, &#34;Juvenilia&#34; finds itself focused on many different aspects of love, desire, and death expressed in over 40 different poems, and includes some of his most notable poems such as &#34;Claribel&#34; and &#34;Marina&#34;. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Follow me on other platforms:</span></p><p><span>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</span></p><p><span>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</span></p><p><span>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</span></p><p><span>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</span></p><p><span>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Website: https://bemusearts.com</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span>He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria&#39;s reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor&#39;s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, &#34;Timbuktu&#34;. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. &#34;Claribel&#34; and &#34;Mariana&#34;, which remain some of Tennyson&#39;s most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson&#39;s early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</span></p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;As a collection of Tennyson&amp;#39;s early works, &amp;#34;Juvenilia&amp;#34; finds itself focused on many different aspects of love, desire, and death expressed in over 40 different poems, and includes some of his most notable poems such as &amp;#34;Claribel&amp;#34; and &amp;#34;Marina&amp;#34;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria&amp;#39;s reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor&amp;#39;s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, &amp;#34;Timbuktu&amp;#34;. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. &amp;#34;Claribel&amp;#34; and &amp;#34;Mariana&amp;#34;, which remain some of Tennyson&amp;#39;s most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson&amp;#39;s early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>As a collection of Tennyson&#39;s early works, &#34;Juvenilia&#34; finds itself focused on many different forms of love, desire, and death expressed in over 40 different poems, and includes some of his most notable poems. </p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</p><p>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</p><p>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</p><p><br></p><p>Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. </p><p><br></p><p>He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria&#39;s reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor&#39;s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, &#34;Timbuktu&#34;. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. &#34;Claribel&#34; and &#34;Mariana&#34;, which remain some of Tennyson&#39;s most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson&#39;s early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>As a collection of Tennyson&#39;s early works, &#34;Juvenilia&#34; finds itself focused on many different forms of love, desire, and death expressed in over 40 different poems, and includes some of his most notable poems. </p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</p><p>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</p><p>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</p><p><br></p><p>Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. </p><p><br></p><p>He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria&#39;s reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor&#39;s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, &#34;Timbuktu&#34;. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. &#34;Claribel&#34; and &#34;Mariana&#34;, which remain some of Tennyson&#39;s most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson&#39;s early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;As a collection of Tennyson&amp;#39;s early works, &amp;#34;Juvenilia&amp;#34; finds itself focused on many different forms of love, desire, and death expressed in over 40 different poems, and includes some of his most notable poems. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria&amp;#39;s reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor&amp;#39;s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, &amp;#34;Timbuktu&amp;#34;. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. &amp;#34;Claribel&amp;#34; and &amp;#34;Mariana&amp;#34;, which remain some of Tennyson&amp;#39;s most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson&amp;#39;s early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:title>At the Hawks Well</itunes:title>
                <title>At the Hawks Well</title>

                <itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode>
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                <title>W.B. Yeats: Calvary</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span>Can man be satisfied in Heaven? If Heaven is brought down to earth so freely, will man reject it for want of freedom? These are the themes put forward in &#34;Calvary&#34; through the mouths of Lazarus and Judas, the man who could not be beholden to death, and the man who would not be beholden to God. ... And yet, their desires laid upon cross are all too human... all too understandable.</span></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</p><p>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</p><p>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</p><p><br></p><p>William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.</p><p><br></p><p>His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Can man be satisfied in Heaven? If Heaven is brought down to earth so freely, will man reject it for want of freedom? These are the themes put forward in &amp;#34;Calvary&amp;#34; through the mouths of Lazarus and Judas, the man who could not be beholden to death, and the man who would not be beholden to God. ... And yet, their desires laid upon cross are all too human... all too understandable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&amp;#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;When your faith is destroyed, to what do you turn? Reason? Absolution? Or do you continue on believing? These are the clashing personalities of the three men of &amp;#34;The Resurrection,&amp;#34; watching guard for the disciples after Jesus&amp;#39; crucifixion, all struggling with their preconceived notions of the world after his death, and are precarious, yet ready, as to what to do next.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&amp;#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span>&#34;The Watched Pot&#34; is a three-act comedic play written by Saki in collaboration with Charles Maude. It centers around the inhabitants of Briony manor either scheming or enacting the scheme of marrying the only inheritor of the estate, Trevor Bavvel, before his tyrant of a mother, Hortensia Bavvel, becomes aware of the covert usurpment of her power. The play humorously explores the pressure placed on everyone in the manor as various potential brides are paraded before him, while Trevor remains indifferent and hesitant. While, &#34;the watched pot never boils,&#34; lighting a fire under these societal expectations of Edwardian society makes the resulting action of this play as dynamic as a mountain of gunpowder.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Follow me on other platforms:</span></p><p><span>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</span></p><p><span>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</span></p><p><span>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</span></p><p><span>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</span></p><p><span>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Website: https://bemusearts.com</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</span></p>]]></description>
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                <title>Saki: The Watched Pot, Act II (Pt.  1)</title>

                <itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode>
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                <title>Saki: The Watched Pot, Act I (Pt. 2)</title>

                <itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode>
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                <title>Saki: The Watched Pot, Act I (Pt. 1)</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span>&#34;The Watched Pot&#34; is a three-act comedic play written by Saki in collaboration with Charles Maude. It centers around the inhabitants of Briony manor either scheming or enacting the scheme of marrying the only inheritor of the estate, Trevor Bavvel, before his tyrant of a mother, Hortensia Bavvel, becomes aware of the covert usurpment of her power. The play humorously explores the pressure placed on everyone in the manor as various potential brides are paraded before him, while Trevor remains indifferent and hesitant. While, &#34;the watched pot never boils,&#34; lighting a fire under these societal expectations of Edwardian society makes the resulting action of this play as dynamic as a mountain of gunpowder.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Follow me on other platforms:</span></p><p><span>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</span></p><p><span>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</span></p><p><span>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</span></p><p><span>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</span></p><p><span>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Website: https://bemusearts.com</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</span></p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#34;The Watched Pot&amp;#34; is a three-act comedic play written by Saki in collaboration with Charles Maude. It centers around the inhabitants of Briony manor either scheming or enacting the scheme of marrying the only inheritor of the estate, Trevor Bavvel, before his tyrant of a mother, Hortensia Bavvel, becomes aware of the covert usurpment of her power. The play humorously explores the pressure placed on everyone in the manor as various potential brides are paraded before him, while Trevor remains indifferent and hesitant. While, &amp;#34;the watched pot never boils,&amp;#34; lighting a fire under these societal expectations of Edwardian society makes the resulting action of this play as dynamic as a mountain of gunpowder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>Saki: Karl Ludwig&#39;s Window</itunes:title>
                <title>Saki: Karl Ludwig&#39;s Window</title>

                <itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p><span>In &#34;Karl Ludwig’s Window,&#34; Saki skewers the romantic ideals of honor and despair with dry, unsparing wit. Kurt von Jagdstein, fearing disgrace after a duel gone wrong, returns to his home and contemplates ending his life by leaping from the same window once used by a tragic ancestor. Yet, amidst this tension, Kurt is in a constant state of witty retort to his family&#39;s questions and accusations. While his mother is questioning how they&#39;ll ever socially recover from this, he drinks to their health, knowing full well he won&#39;t be needing it--a dark satire at its finest.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Follow me on other platforms:</span></p><p><span>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</span></p><p><span>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</span></p><p><span>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</span></p><p><span>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</span></p><p><span>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Website: https://bemusearts.com</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</span></p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In &amp;#34;Karl Ludwig’s Window,&amp;#34; Saki skewers the romantic ideals of honor and despair with dry, unsparing wit. Kurt von Jagdstein, fearing disgrace after a duel gone wrong, returns to his home and contemplates ending his life by leaping from the same window once used by a tragic ancestor. Yet, amidst this tension, Kurt is in a constant state of witty retort to his family&amp;#39;s questions and accusations. While his mother is questioning how they&amp;#39;ll ever socially recover from this, he drinks to their health, knowing full well he won&amp;#39;t be needing it--a dark satire at its finest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>Saki: Introduction &amp; The Death Trap</itunes:title>
                <title>Saki: Introduction &amp; The Death Trap</title>

                <itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>3</itunes:season>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>Saki’s one‑act political satire, &#34;The Death Trap&#34; unfolds in a small Balkan castle on the eve of an insurrection. Prince Dimitri, the gentle young ruler of the state of Muravia, has been warned that rebels plan to murder him that night; only a handful of advisers and servants stand between him and the assassins outside the walls. His only remaining friend, Stronetz, coolly weighs two grim alternatives: let the rebels breach the castle and plunge the country into civil war, or sacrifice the prince to satisfy their fury and spare thousands. Before dawn breaks, Stronetz devises an unorthodox “death trap” that turns loyalty into treachery and makes Dimitri’s fate a calculated act of statecraft, revealing Saki’s dark view of power, expediency, and the human cost of political stability.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</p><p>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</p><p>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</p><p><br></p><p>Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.</p><p><br></p><p>Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Saki’s one‑act political satire, &amp;#34;The Death Trap&amp;#34; unfolds in a small Balkan castle on the eve of an insurrection. Prince Dimitri, the gentle young ruler of the state of Muravia, has been warned that rebels plan to murder him that night; only a handful of advisers and servants stand between him and the assassins outside the walls. His only remaining friend, Stronetz, coolly weighs two grim alternatives: let the rebels breach the castle and plunge the country into civil war, or sacrifice the prince to satisfy their fury and spare thousands. Before dawn breaks, Stronetz devises an unorthodox “death trap” that turns loyalty into treachery and makes Dimitri’s fate a calculated act of statecraft, revealing Saki’s dark view of power, expediency, and the human cost of political stability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>In &#34;The Countess Cathleen,&#34; famine devastates Ireland, and a pair of mysterious merchants begin buying souls from starving peasants in exchange for food and gold. When Countess Cathleen discovers the growing spiritual crisis among her people, she tries to offer aid—but quickly realizes her wealth alone isn’t enough to stop their grief. In a final, deliberate act, she sells her own soul to the merchants, hoping to ransom the villagers’ salvation with her sacrifice. Drawing from Irish legend to explore moral choice, quiet heroism, and the uneasy space between good intentions and divine judgment, this debut play of W.B. Yeats would set him apart from other contemporary writers of his time and solidify the foundation for his works to come.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</p><p>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</p><p>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</p><p><br></p><p>William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.</p><p><br></p><p>His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;In &amp;#34;The Countess Cathleen,&amp;#34; famine devastates Ireland, and a pair of mysterious merchants begin buying souls from starving peasants in exchange for food and gold. When Countess Cathleen discovers the growing spiritual crisis among her people, she tries to offer aid—but quickly realizes her wealth alone isn’t enough to stop their grief. In a final, deliberate act, she sells her own soul to the merchants, hoping to ransom the villagers’ salvation with her sacrifice. Drawing from Irish legend to explore moral choice, quiet heroism, and the uneasy space between good intentions and divine judgment, this debut play of W.B. Yeats would set him apart from other contemporary writers of his time and solidify the foundation for his works to come.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&amp;#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>W.B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen (Scene 2&#43;3)</itunes:title>
                <title>W.B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen (Scene 2&#43;3)</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p>In &#34;The Countess Cathleen,&#34; famine devastates Ireland, and a pair of mysterious merchants begin buying souls from starving peasants in exchange for food and gold. When Countess Cathleen discovers the growing spiritual crisis among her people, she tries to offer aid—but quickly realizes her wealth alone isn’t enough to stop their grief. In a final, deliberate act, she sells her own soul to the merchants, hoping to ransom the villagers’ salvation with her sacrifice. Drawing from Irish legend to explore moral choice, quiet heroism, and the uneasy space between good intentions and divine judgment, this debut play of W.B. Yeats would set him apart from other contemporary writers of his time and solidify the foundation for his works to come.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</p><p>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</p><p>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</p><p><br></p><p>William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.</p><p><br></p><p>His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;In &amp;#34;The Countess Cathleen,&amp;#34; famine devastates Ireland, and a pair of mysterious merchants begin buying souls from starving peasants in exchange for food and gold. When Countess Cathleen discovers the growing spiritual crisis among her people, she tries to offer aid—but quickly realizes her wealth alone isn’t enough to stop their grief. In a final, deliberate act, she sells her own soul to the merchants, hoping to ransom the villagers’ salvation with her sacrifice. Drawing from Irish legend to explore moral choice, quiet heroism, and the uneasy space between good intentions and divine judgment, this debut play of W.B. Yeats would set him apart from other contemporary writers of his time and solidify the foundation for his works to come.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&amp;#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>W.B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen (Scene 1)</itunes:title>
                <title>W.B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen (Scene 1)</title>

                <itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>In &#34;The Countess Cathleen,&#34; famine devastates Ireland, and a pair of mysterious merchants begin buying souls from starving peasants in exchange for food and gold. When Countess Cathleen discovers the growing spiritual crisis among her people, she tries to offer aid—but quickly realizes her wealth alone isn’t enough to stop their grief. In a final, deliberate act, she sells her own soul to the merchants, hoping to ransom the villagers’ salvation with her sacrifice. Drawing from Irish legend to explore moral choice, quiet heroism, and the uneasy space between good intentions and divine judgment, this debut play of W.B. Yeats would set him apart from other contemporary writers of his time and solidify the foundation for his works to come.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</p><p>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</p><p>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</p><p><br></p><p>William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.</p><p><br></p><p>His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;In &amp;#34;The Countess Cathleen,&amp;#34; famine devastates Ireland, and a pair of mysterious merchants begin buying souls from starving peasants in exchange for food and gold. When Countess Cathleen discovers the growing spiritual crisis among her people, she tries to offer aid—but quickly realizes her wealth alone isn’t enough to stop their grief. In a final, deliberate act, she sells her own soul to the merchants, hoping to ransom the villagers’ salvation with her sacrifice. Drawing from Irish legend to explore moral choice, quiet heroism, and the uneasy space between good intentions and divine judgment, this debut play of W.B. Yeats would set him apart from other contemporary writers of his time and solidify the foundation for his works to come.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&amp;#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span>W.B Yeats&#39; &#34;Purgatory&#34; is a grim representation of generational guilt and spiritual entrapment, as a father confronts the ghosts of his family’s past in the ruins of a once-noble home, where memory and violence echo years afterwards.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Meanwhile, in &#34;The Cat and the Moon,&#34; two beggars—one blind, one lame—make their way to a holy well where Saint Colman resides in the hopes of curing their respective ailments. But when given the opportunity of being healed or being blessed, both beggars are forced to reassess their convictions. Will they use their newfound gifts for justice, or will they accept placement in the hereafter?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Follow me on other platforms:</span></p><p><span>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</span></p><p><span>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</span></p><p><span>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</span></p><p><span>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</span></p><p><span>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>Website: https://bemusearts.com</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</span></p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;W.B Yeats&amp;#39; &amp;#34;Purgatory&amp;#34; is a grim representation of generational guilt and spiritual entrapment, as a father confronts the ghosts of his family’s past in the ruins of a once-noble home, where memory and violence echo years afterwards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Meanwhile, in &amp;#34;The Cat and the Moon,&amp;#34; two beggars—one blind, one lame—make their way to a holy well where Saint Colman resides in the hopes of curing their respective ailments. But when given the opportunity of being healed or being blessed, both beggars are forced to reassess their convictions. Will they use their newfound gifts for justice, or will they accept placement in the hereafter?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&amp;#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>W.B. Yeats: The Pot of Broth</itunes:title>
                <title>W.B. Yeats: The Pot of Broth</title>

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                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
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                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Brimming with charm and mischief, &amp;#34;The Pot of Broth&amp;#34; is a delightful one-act comedy co-written with Lady Gregory in which a clever wanderer, armed with nothing but an empty pot and a silver tongue, convinces a wary country couple that he can brew a magical broth from a simple stone. As tall tales bubble up alongside the imaginary soup, the ordinary kitchen becomes a stage for trickery, laughter, and the quiet magic of believing in just a little more than what’s in front of you. Come into the Irish countryside, where even the poorest pot can cook up a most entertaining story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&amp;#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>W.B. Yeats: Cathleen Ní Houlihan</itunes:title>
                <title>W.B. Yeats: Cathleen Ní Houlihan</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span>Set against the backdrop of Ireland’s struggle for freedom, &#34;Cathleen N</span>í<span> Houlihan&#34; unfolds with quiet intensity as a young man’s ordinary life is gradually overtaken by a strange and irresistible call to something greater. In the presence of a beguiling visitor whose words seem to shimmer with myth and longing, dreams of marriage and home give way to visions of sacrifice and national pride. W.B. Yeats weaves a lyrical, otherworldly tale that blurs the line between reality and enchantment, capturing the powerful sway of idealism, identity, and the mysterious forces that drive people to give everything for a cause--the cause for Ireland&#39;s freedom.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p>https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</p><p>https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</p><p>https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</p><p>https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*</p><p><br></p><p>William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.</p><p><br></p><p>His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Set against the backdrop of Ireland’s struggle for freedom, &amp;#34;Cathleen N&lt;/span&gt;í&lt;span&gt; Houlihan&amp;#34; unfolds with quiet intensity as a young man’s ordinary life is gradually overtaken by a strange and irresistible call to something greater. In the presence of a beguiling visitor whose words seem to shimmer with myth and longing, dreams of marriage and home give way to visions of sacrifice and national pride. W.B. Yeats weaves a lyrical, otherworldly tale that blurs the line between reality and enchantment, capturing the powerful sway of idealism, identity, and the mysterious forces that drive people to give everything for a cause--the cause for Ireland&amp;#39;s freedom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Illuvisual*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, he founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced, modernist and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900 his poetry grew more physical, realistic and politicised. He moved away from the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with some elements including cyclical theories of life. He had become the chief playwright for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1897, and early on promoted younger poets such as Ezra Pound. His major works include The Land of Heart&amp;#39;s Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Deirdre (1907), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), The Tower (1928) and Last Poems and Plays (1940).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>August Strindberg: The Ghost Sonata (Scene 2)</itunes:title>
                <title>August Strindberg: The Ghost Sonata (Scene 2)</title>

                <itunes:episode>30</itunes:episode>
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                <title>August Strindberg: The Ghost Sonata (Scene 1)</title>

                <itunes:episode>29</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>Enter the surreal world of August Strindberg&#39;s &#34;The Ghost Sonata,&#34; where a young student becomes entangled in the mysterious affairs of a haunted mansion. As he navigates its labyrinthine corridors, he encounters a cast of eccentric characters, including a mysterious old man who seems to have blackmail over everyone in the house, a woman who has begun to resemble a mummy after being locked away in a closet for years, a young girl who can&#39;t leave her hyacinth room,  and an ethereal milk maid who seems to hold the future of everyone involved delicately in her hands. This truly is one of the most bizarre and nihilistic works to ever come out of Strindberg&#39;s catalog, but also helped lay down the correct foundation for his final play, the Great Highway.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*</p><p><br></p><p>Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &#34;father&#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Enter the surreal world of August Strindberg&amp;#39;s &amp;#34;The Ghost Sonata,&amp;#34; where a young student becomes entangled in the mysterious affairs of a haunted mansion. As he navigates its labyrinthine corridors, he encounters a cast of eccentric characters, including a mysterious old man who seems to have blackmail over everyone in the house, a woman who has begun to resemble a mummy after being locked away in a closet for years, a young girl who can&amp;#39;t leave her hyacinth room,  and an ethereal milk maid who seems to hold the future of everyone involved delicately in her hands. This truly is one of the most bizarre and nihilistic works to ever come out of Strindberg&amp;#39;s catalog, but also helped lay down the correct foundation for his final play, the Great Highway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &amp;#34;father&amp;#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>Guy Wetmore Carryl: Grimm Tales Made Gay</itunes:title>
                <title>Guy Wetmore Carryl: Grimm Tales Made Gay</title>

                <itunes:episode>28</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>&#34;Grimm Tales Made Gay&#34; is a hilarious reinterpretation of classic Grimm fairy tales infused with humor and irreverence. In this collection, each Brother&#39;s Grimm tale is transformed into a witty and whimsical narrative, featuring absurd situations, clever wordplay, and unexpected plot developments. From Cinderella&#39;s sassy stepsisters to Little Red Riding Hood&#39;s encounter with a cunning wolf, Carryl&#39;s reinterpretations offer a fresh and entertaining take on beloved childhood favorites. With its charm, wit, and laugh-out-loud humor, &#34;Grimm Tales Made Gay&#34; is sure to delight readers of all ages!</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*</p><p><br></p><p>Guy Wetmore Carryl was born in New York City, the first-born of writer Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore.</p><p><br></p><p>He had his first article published in The New York Times when he was 20 years old. In 1895, at the age of 22, Carryl graduated from Columbia University. During his college years he had written plays for amateur performances, including the very first Varsity Show. One of his professors was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl&#39;s famous statement, &#34;It takes two bodies to make one seduction&#34;, which was somewhat risqué for those times.</p><p><br></p><p>Some of Carryl&#39;s better-known works were his humorous poems that were parodies of Aesop&#39;s Fables, such as &#34;The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven&#34; and of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, such as &#34;The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet&#34;, poems which are still popular today. He also wrote a number of humorous parodies of Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales, such as &#34;How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten&#34; and &#34;How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe&#34;. His humorous poems usually ended with a pun on the words used in the moral of the story.</p><p><br></p><p>Guy Carryl died in 1904 at age 31 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. His death was thought to be a result of illness contracted from exposure while fighting a fire at his house a month earlier.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#34;Grimm Tales Made Gay&amp;#34; is a hilarious reinterpretation of classic Grimm fairy tales infused with humor and irreverence. In this collection, each Brother&amp;#39;s Grimm tale is transformed into a witty and whimsical narrative, featuring absurd situations, clever wordplay, and unexpected plot developments. From Cinderella&amp;#39;s sassy stepsisters to Little Red Riding Hood&amp;#39;s encounter with a cunning wolf, Carryl&amp;#39;s reinterpretations offer a fresh and entertaining take on beloved childhood favorites. With its charm, wit, and laugh-out-loud humor, &amp;#34;Grimm Tales Made Gay&amp;#34; is sure to delight readers of all ages!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Guy Wetmore Carryl was born in New York City, the first-born of writer Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He had his first article published in The New York Times when he was 20 years old. In 1895, at the age of 22, Carryl graduated from Columbia University. During his college years he had written plays for amateur performances, including the very first Varsity Show. One of his professors was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl&amp;#39;s famous statement, &amp;#34;It takes two bodies to make one seduction&amp;#34;, which was somewhat risqué for those times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of Carryl&amp;#39;s better-known works were his humorous poems that were parodies of Aesop&amp;#39;s Fables, such as &amp;#34;The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven&amp;#34; and of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, such as &amp;#34;The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet&amp;#34;, poems which are still popular today. He also wrote a number of humorous parodies of Grimm&amp;#39;s Fairy Tales, such as &amp;#34;How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten&amp;#34; and &amp;#34;How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe&amp;#34;. His humorous poems usually ended with a pun on the words used in the moral of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Guy Carryl died in 1904 at age 31 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. His death was thought to be a result of illness contracted from exposure while fighting a fire at his house a month earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>August Strindberg: A Dream Play (Pt. 5)</itunes:title>
                <title>August Strindberg: A Dream Play (Pt. 5)</title>

                <itunes:episode>27</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
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                <title>August Strindberg: A Dream Play (Pt. 1)</title>

                <itunes:episode>23</itunes:episode>
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                <title>August Strindberg: Swanwhite (Act III)</title>

                <itunes:episode>22</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:title>August Strindberg: Swanwhite (Act I)</itunes:title>
                <title>August Strindberg: Swanwhite (Act I)</title>

                <itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:title>Guy Wetmore Carryl: Fables for the Frivolous</itunes:title>
                <title>Guy Wetmore Carryl: Fables for the Frivolous</title>

                <itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode>
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                <title>The Dance of Death Pt. 2 (Act II)</title>

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                <title>August Strindberg: Crime &amp; Crime (Act III)</title>

                <itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>Playwright Maurice is on the very verge of having success and notoriety upon the opening of his new play. In fact, he&#39;s so elated at his future prospects that he&#39;s decided to propose to his mistress, Jeanne  once the evening is over. However, he comes into contact with a femme fatale named Henriette, who so beguiles him with danger and mystery that he doesn&#39;t attend his own show and instead spends the entire night with her, forgetting all about his mistress and child. Word spreads throughout France the following morning, and the public utterly shames the impromptu couple for spending the night together, causing the theater to pull Maurice&#39;s play, Jeanne to leave Maurice, and Henriette to scheme upon the molding of this now contemptible beast for her own means....</p><p>Come see the consequences of actions and the impact of societal expectations in this strange yet unwavering comedy known as &#34;Crime and Crime.&#34;</p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*</p><p><br></p><p>Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &#34;father&#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <title>August Strindberg: Crime &amp; Crime (Act I)</title>

                <itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode>
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                <title>August Strindberg: Crime &amp; Crime (Act II)</title>

                <itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>Playwright Maurice is on the very verge of having success and notoriety upon the opening of his new play. In fact, he&#39;s so elated at his future prospects that he&#39;s decided to propose to his mistress, Jeanne  once the evening is over. However, he comes into contact with a femme fatale named Henriette, who so beguiles him with danger and mystery that he doesn&#39;t attend his own show and instead spends the entire night with her, forgetting all about his mistress and child. Word spreads throughout France the following morning, and the public utterly shames the impromptu couple for spending the night together, causing the theater to pull Maurice&#39;s play, Jeanne to leave Maurice, and Henriette to scheme upon the molding of this now contemptible beast for her own means....</p><p>Come see the consequences of actions and the impact of societal expectations in this strange yet unwavering comedy known as &#34;Crime and Crime.&#34;</p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*</p><p><br></p><p>Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &#34;father&#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Playwright Maurice is on the very verge of having success and notoriety upon the opening of his new play. In fact, he&amp;#39;s so elated at his future prospects that he&amp;#39;s decided to propose to his mistress, Jeanne  once the evening is over. However, he comes into contact with a femme fatale named Henriette, who so beguiles him with danger and mystery that he doesn&amp;#39;t attend his own show and instead spends the entire night with her, forgetting all about his mistress and child. Word spreads throughout France the following morning, and the public utterly shames the impromptu couple for spending the night together, causing the theater to pull Maurice&amp;#39;s play, Jeanne to leave Maurice, and Henriette to scheme upon the molding of this now contemptible beast for her own means....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come see the consequences of actions and the impact of societal expectations in this strange yet unwavering comedy known as &amp;#34;Crime and Crime.&amp;#34;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &amp;#34;father&amp;#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>Guy Wetmore Carryl: Mother Goose for Grown-Ups</itunes:title>
                <title>Guy Wetmore Carryl: Mother Goose for Grown-Ups</title>

                <itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>&#34;Mother Goose for Grown-Ups&#34; is a delightful reinvention of classic nursery rhymes tailored for a more mature audience. In this witty and irreverent collection, Carryl puts a humorous spin on beloved childhood favorites such as &#34;Humpty Dumpty,&#34; &#34;Jack and Jill,&#34; and &#34;Mary Had a Little Lamb,&#34; with each rhyme being transformed into a clever and comical tale. If nostalgia is calling your name, but the intellectual side of your brain won&#39;t let you be whimsical, throw this on your headphones and let Guy Wetmore Carryl appeal to both sides of your fancy with &#34;Mother Goose for Grown-Ups!&#34;</p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*</p><p><br></p><p>Guy Wetmore Carryl was born in New York City, the first-born of writer Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore.</p><p><br></p><p>He had his first article published in The New York Times when he was 20 years old. In 1895, at the age of 22, Carryl graduated from Columbia University. During his college years he had written plays for amateur performances, including the very first Varsity Show. One of his professors was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl&#39;s famous statement, &#34;It takes two bodies to make one seduction&#34;, which was somewhat risqué for those times.</p><p><br></p><p>Some of Carryl&#39;s better-known works were his humorous poems that were parodies of Aesop&#39;s Fables, such as &#34;The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven&#34; and of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, such as &#34;The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet&#34;, poems which are still popular today. He also wrote a number of humorous parodies of Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales, such as &#34;How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten&#34; and &#34;How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe&#34;. His humorous poems usually ended with a pun on the words used in the moral of the story.</p><p><br></p><p>Guy Carryl died in 1904 at age 31 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. His death was thought to be a result of illness contracted from exposure while fighting a fire at his house a month earlier.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#34;Mother Goose for Grown-Ups&amp;#34; is a delightful reinvention of classic nursery rhymes tailored for a more mature audience. In this witty and irreverent collection, Carryl puts a humorous spin on beloved childhood favorites such as &amp;#34;Humpty Dumpty,&amp;#34; &amp;#34;Jack and Jill,&amp;#34; and &amp;#34;Mary Had a Little Lamb,&amp;#34; with each rhyme being transformed into a clever and comical tale. If nostalgia is calling your name, but the intellectual side of your brain won&amp;#39;t let you be whimsical, throw this on your headphones and let Guy Wetmore Carryl appeal to both sides of your fancy with &amp;#34;Mother Goose for Grown-Ups!&amp;#34;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Guy Wetmore Carryl was born in New York City, the first-born of writer Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He had his first article published in The New York Times when he was 20 years old. In 1895, at the age of 22, Carryl graduated from Columbia University. During his college years he had written plays for amateur performances, including the very first Varsity Show. One of his professors was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl&amp;#39;s famous statement, &amp;#34;It takes two bodies to make one seduction&amp;#34;, which was somewhat risqué for those times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of Carryl&amp;#39;s better-known works were his humorous poems that were parodies of Aesop&amp;#39;s Fables, such as &amp;#34;The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven&amp;#34; and of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, such as &amp;#34;The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet&amp;#34;, poems which are still popular today. He also wrote a number of humorous parodies of Grimm&amp;#39;s Fairy Tales, such as &amp;#34;How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten&amp;#34; and &amp;#34;How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe&amp;#34;. His humorous poems usually ended with a pun on the words used in the moral of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Guy Carryl died in 1904 at age 31 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. His death was thought to be a result of illness contracted from exposure while fighting a fire at his house a month earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>August Strindberg: Easter (Act III)</itunes:title>
                <title>August Strindberg: Easter (Act III)</title>

                <itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>Set against the backdrop of a small college town, the Heyst&#39;s familial tensions converge during the holiday weekend; not only is the family&#39;s livelihood at stake, but the debt collector has just come into town, the youngest daughter has returned from an institution unprompted, and there&#39;s even a question of fidelity to boot. However, against the simplicity of communal gatherings and the warmth of familial bonds, the worries that once seemed insurmountable begin to fade. And through the lens of Easter&#39;s promise of renewal, Strindberg suggests that life&#39;s burdens may be lighter than they appear, offering a glimpse of hope amidst the chaos of everyday existence.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*</p><p><br></p><p>Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &#34;father&#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <title>August Strindberg: Easter (Act II)</title>

                <itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
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                <title>August Strindberg: Easter (Act I)</title>

                <itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>Set against the backdrop of a small college town, the Heyst&#39;s familial tensions converge during the holiday weekend; not only is the family&#39;s livelihood at stake, but the debt collector has just come into town, the youngest daughter has returned from an institution unprompted, and there&#39;s even a question of fidelity to boot. However, against the simplicity of communal gatherings and the warmth of familial bonds, the worries that once seemed insurmountable begin to fade. And through the lens of Easter&#39;s promise of renewal, Strindberg suggests that life&#39;s burdens may be lighter than they appear, offering a glimpse of hope amidst the chaos of everyday existence.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*</p><p><br></p><p>Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &#34;father&#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Set against the backdrop of a small college town, the Heyst&amp;#39;s familial tensions converge during the holiday weekend; not only is the family&amp;#39;s livelihood at stake, but the debt collector has just come into town, the youngest daughter has returned from an institution unprompted, and there&amp;#39;s even a question of fidelity to boot. However, against the simplicity of communal gatherings and the warmth of familial bonds, the worries that once seemed insurmountable begin to fade. And through the lens of Easter&amp;#39;s promise of renewal, Strindberg suggests that life&amp;#39;s burdens may be lighter than they appear, offering a glimpse of hope amidst the chaos of everyday existence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &amp;#34;father&amp;#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <title>August Strindberg: The Father (Act III)</title>

                <itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
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                <title>August Strindberg: The Father (Act II)</title>

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                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>If you cast a reasonable doubt in someone, are you responsible for their actions? Especially when that doubt was planted in order to manipulate?</p><p><br></p><p>This is one of the central questions posed in August Strindberg&#39;s &#34;The Father,&#34; a three act play about a power struggle between the over-domineering Adolf and his wife Laura as they discuss the future plans for their child. All doubts come to a head, however, when Laura points out that a child&#39;s paternity can never be proven, and thus, under common law, strips Adolf of his power over the child. Through deceit, treachery, and manipulation, the plan to get rid of &#34;The Father&#34; is set in motion, and only time will tell if Adolf is a madman filled to the brim with jealous rage or righteous fury.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Breanna Rose*</p><p><br></p><p>Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &#34;father&#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <itunes:title>August Strindberg: The Father (Act I)</itunes:title>
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                <itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>2</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
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                <title>Brendan Moir: As Infinity Equates to Zero</title>

                <itunes:episode>28</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                <itunes:episode>27</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:title>J.M. Synge: Playboy of the Western World, Act I</itunes:title>
                <title>J.M. Synge: Playboy of the Western World, Act I</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span>The father of Ulysses, The Dublineers, and Finnegan&#39;s Wake (James Joyce) was also an avidly prolific poet. As of recently, most of his poems entered the public domain, so let us continue with this season&#39;s overarching theme of reading early twentieth century Irish Literature, and do a deep dive on the poems of one of Ireland&#39;s greatest literary giants--poems of love, life, happiness, sorrow, and rebuttal... but most of all, love.</span>.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@bemuse-brendanmoir519/featured" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@bemuse-brendanmoir519/featured</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://bemusearts.com</p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce&#39;s novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer&#39;s Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The father of Ulysses, The Dublineers, and Finnegan&amp;#39;s Wake (James Joyce) was also an avidly prolific poet. As of recently, most of his poems entered the public domain, so let us continue with this season&amp;#39;s overarching theme of reading early twentieth century Irish Literature, and do a deep dive on the poems of one of Ireland&amp;#39;s greatest literary giants--poems of love, life, happiness, sorrow, and rebuttal... but most of all, love.&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/@bemuse-brendanmoir519/featured&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/@bemuse-brendanmoir519/featured&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: https://bemusearts.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce&amp;#39;s novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer&amp;#39;s Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>Come and join me as we rediscover one of the greatest myths to come out of the Emerald Isle: &#34;Deirdre of the Sorrows,&#34; adapted for the stage by J.M. Synge.</p><p>Deirdre, a woman of immeasurable beauty, is betrothed/condemned to the King of Ulster, Conchubar. But in true mythological fashion, there is a prophecy which prevents this--a prophecy that tells of her falling in love with another man, of heroes being banished in her name, of multiple wars waged for her honor. Loyalty, familial ties, and unadulterated love will be strained and broken, with only one question remaining: Who will be left to admire the beauty and sorrow of life?</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.</p><p><br></p><p>His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.</p><p><br></p><p>Synge suffered from Hodgkin&#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <title>J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows, Act II</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p>Come and join me as we rediscover one of the greatest myths to come out of the Emerald Isle: &#34;Deirdre of the Sorrows,&#34; adapted for the stage by J.M. Synge.</p><p>Deirdre, a woman of immeasurable beauty, is betrothed/condemned to the King of Ulster, Conchubar. But in true mythological fashion, there is a prophecy which prevents this--a prophecy that tells of her falling in love with another man, of heroes being banished in her name, of multiple wars waged for her honor. Loyalty, familial ties, and unadulterated love will be strained and broken, with only one question remaining: Who will be left to admire the beauty and sorrow of life?</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.</p><p><br></p><p>His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.</p><p><br></p><p>Synge suffered from Hodgkin&#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Come and join me as we rediscover one of the greatest myths to come out of the Emerald Isle: &amp;#34;Deirdre of the Sorrows,&amp;#34; adapted for the stage by J.M. Synge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deirdre, a woman of immeasurable beauty, is betrothed/condemned to the King of Ulster, Conchubar. But in true mythological fashion, there is a prophecy which prevents this--a prophecy that tells of her falling in love with another man, of heroes being banished in her name, of multiple wars waged for her honor. Loyalty, familial ties, and unadulterated love will be strained and broken, with only one question remaining: Who will be left to admire the beauty and sorrow of life?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Synge suffered from Hodgkin&amp;#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&amp;#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows, Act I</itunes:title>
                <title>J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows, Act I</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p>Come and join me as we rediscover one of the greatest myths to come out of the Emerald Isle: &#34;Deirdre of the Sorrows,&#34; adapted for the stage by J.M. Synge.</p><p>Deirdre, a woman of immeasurable beauty, is betrothed/condemned to the King of Ulster, Conchubar. But in true mythological fashion, there is a prophecy which prevents this--a prophecy that tells of her falling in love with another man, of heroes being banished in her name, of multiple wars waged for her honor. Loyalty, familial ties, and unadulterated love will be strained and broken, with only one question remaining: Who will be left to admire the beauty and sorrow of life?</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.</p><p><br></p><p>His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.</p><p><br></p><p>Synge suffered from Hodgkin&#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Come and join me as we rediscover one of the greatest myths to come out of the Emerald Isle: &amp;#34;Deirdre of the Sorrows,&amp;#34; adapted for the stage by J.M. Synge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deirdre, a woman of immeasurable beauty, is betrothed/condemned to the King of Ulster, Conchubar. But in true mythological fashion, there is a prophecy which prevents this--a prophecy that tells of her falling in love with another man, of heroes being banished in her name, of multiple wars waged for her honor. Loyalty, familial ties, and unadulterated love will be strained and broken, with only one question remaining: Who will be left to admire the beauty and sorrow of life?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Synge suffered from Hodgkin&amp;#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&amp;#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <itunes:title>August Strindberg: Miss Julie &amp; The Stronger, Pt. 2</itunes:title>
                <title>August Strindberg: Miss Julie &amp; The Stronger, Pt. 2</title>

                <itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode>
                <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>Two of the most influential and early feminist plays to have ever graced the stage, we have have Miss Julie and The Stronger.</p><p>Miss Julie is a one act tragedy that finds itself in a similar vein as Henrik Ibsen&#39;s &#34;Hedda Gabbler&#34; and &#34;A Doll&#39;s House,&#34; in which the main woman of the play (Miss Julie) tries to take hold of her own destiny and break away from the system that has failed to meet her needs, but is unable (or unwilling) to see the consequences of her own actions--a desperate cry for legitimacy to a society that seems indifferent to her struggle.</p><p>The Stronger, in comparison, is a ten minute play about the fallout of such a decision, and confronting that catalyst many years later--a contemplation on the manipulation of thought (both of the main character and the object of her insecurities) and the forgetfulness of coping.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &#34;father&#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Two of the most influential and early feminist plays to have ever graced the stage, we have have Miss Julie and The Stronger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Miss Julie is a one act tragedy that finds itself in a similar vein as Henrik Ibsen&amp;#39;s &amp;#34;Hedda Gabbler&amp;#34; and &amp;#34;A Doll&amp;#39;s House,&amp;#34; in which the main woman of the play (Miss Julie) tries to take hold of her own destiny and break away from the system that has failed to meet her needs, but is unable (or unwilling) to see the consequences of her own actions--a desperate cry for legitimacy to a society that seems indifferent to her struggle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Stronger, in comparison, is a ten minute play about the fallout of such a decision, and confronting that catalyst many years later--a contemplation on the manipulation of thought (both of the main character and the object of her insecurities) and the forgetfulness of coping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the &amp;#34;father&amp;#34; of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <title>J.M. Synge: Well of the Saints, Act III</title>

                <itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode>
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                <title>J.M. Synge: Well of the Saints, Act II</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p>A blind couple regains their sight only to realize they hate the look of one another. Hilarity and pigheadedness ensues.</p><p>Come join me on a three act romp through the Irish countryside where we begin to learn that ugliness and beauty aren&#39;t as topical as one might believe, and that the people who have their sight are oftentimes the ones who are the most oblivious.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.</p><p><br></p><p>His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.</p><p><br></p><p>Synge suffered from Hodgkin&#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>A blind couple regains their sight only to realize they hate the look of one another. Hilarity and pigheadedness ensues.</p><p>Come join me on a three act romp through the Irish countryside where we begin to learn that ugliness and beauty aren&#39;t as topical as one might believe, and that the people who have their sight are oftentimes the ones who are the most oblivious.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.</p><p><br></p><p>His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.</p><p><br></p><p>Synge suffered from Hodgkin&#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;One of the cornerstones of early science fiction writing, and the work that introduced the concept of &amp;#34;robot&amp;#34; to the western world, Rossum&amp;#39;s Universal Robots (or RUR) is Karel Čapek&amp;#39;s finest work, and is the inspiration for multiple pop culture references from the 1940&amp;#39;s through the 80&amp;#39;s, ranging from works such as The Night of the Living Dead, Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep, and multiple other pieces of art for the screen, stage, and page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come with me and witness how humanity&amp;#39;s hubris creates the very instructions for its own demise, step by step and logic by logic. See how robots were made to take over humanity&amp;#39;s drudgery, how an AI learns to overwrite it&amp;#39;s programming, and how any and all institutions become meaningless if a entire race of beings are not beholden to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s the source of every trope and fear that was instilled into the genre back in the 1920&amp;#39;s, and the ideas and philosophies put forward are still relevant to today&amp;#39;s society. Let&amp;#39;s just hope that none of what&amp;#39;s put down here on paper ever comes to fruition....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karrel Čapek (1890-1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. (Rossum&amp;#39;s Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot. He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <title>Karel Čapek: RUR, Act II</title>

                <itunes:episode>13</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:title>J.M. Synge: Riders to the Sea</itunes:title>
                <title>J.M. Synge: Riders to the Sea</title>

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                <description><![CDATA[<p>Riders to the Sea &amp; Shadow of the Glen are both one act plays by J.M. Synge, an Irish playwright in the early 20th Century who made it his life&#39;s mission to accurately depict the people of the Irish Countryside.</p><p>Riders to the Sea is a Tragedy in One Act about a mother and her daughters dealing with a familial curse that seems to cause all of the men in the family to die. Anxieties come to a peak when the last, remaining son is getting ready to ride out to sea in order to try and provide for his family.</p><p>Shadow of the Glen is a contemplative Drama in One Act about how a women&#39;s integrity can be unjustly scrutinized through hearsay and speculation, and how forcing those opinions out into the open can have disastrous consequences for everyone involved.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.</p><p><br></p><p>His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.</p><p><br></p><p>Synge suffered from Hodgkin&#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <itunes:title>Oscar Wilde: Salome, Pt. 2</itunes:title>
                <title>Oscar Wilde: Salome, Pt. 2</title>

                <itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>Come join me in reading the one of Oscar Wilde&#39;s only tragedies, based on one of the most notorious recollections of the Bible. A story of gruesome ends for gruesome desires that shocked many of the theater goers in the late 1800&#39;s.</p><p>Salome, the daughter of Herodious, has become smitten with John the Baptist due to him rebuking her advances. This causes her to desire him and only him. ... Even unto death. ... His Death.</p><p>Come listen to the play that was the inspiration for the opera of the same name written by Richard Strauss, and one of the very first embodiment of the femme fatale... if given in a different context.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Oscar Fingal O&#39;Fflahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in &#34;one of the first celebrity trials&#34;, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at the age of 46.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Come join me in reading the one of Oscar Wilde&amp;#39;s only tragedies, based on one of the most notorious recollections of the Bible. A story of gruesome ends for gruesome desires that shocked many of the theater goers in the late 1800&amp;#39;s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Salome, the daughter of Herodious, has become smitten with John the Baptist due to him rebuking her advances. This causes her to desire him and only him. ... Even unto death. ... His Death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come listen to the play that was the inspiration for the opera of the same name written by Richard Strauss, and one of the very first embodiment of the femme fatale... if given in a different context.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oscar Fingal O&amp;#39;Fflahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in &amp;#34;one of the first celebrity trials&amp;#34;, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at the age of 46.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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                <title>Oscar Wilde: Salome, Pt. 1</title>

                <itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:title>J.M. Synge: The Tinker&#39;s Wedding, Act II</itunes:title>
                <title>J.M. Synge: The Tinker&#39;s Wedding, Act II</title>

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                <itunes:title>J.M. Synge: The Tinker&#39;s Wedding, Act I</itunes:title>
                <title>J.M. Synge: The Tinker&#39;s Wedding, Act I</title>

                <itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
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                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>Come join me in the hilarious romp that is The Tinker&#39;s Wedding by J.M. Synge, a story of two young tinkers trying to con a travelling holy man into marrying them, all while their mother is constantly trying to satiate her indomitable thirst for drink, thereby inadvertently causing more problems than the drink is worth. Blaming, miscommunication, and utter tomfoolery ensues, leading to the final culmination of each party getting ready to pounce on each other&#39;s necks and outrageously strangle each other Saturday-morning-cartoon style. Come witness both sincerity and hilarity being wrapped up in this tight but brilliantly crafted two act drama-comedy.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Edmund John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.</p><p><br></p><p>His writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland, and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Owing to his ill health, Synge was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at Trinity College Dublin, and he went to Germany in 1893 to study music. He abandoned this career path in 1894 with a move to Paris where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and then returned to Ireland.</p><p><br></p><p>Synge suffered from Hodgkin&#39;s disease. He died aged 37 from Hodgkin&#39;s-related cancer, while writing what became Deirdre of the Sorrows, considered by some as his masterpiece, though unfinished during his lifetime. Although he left relatively few works, they are widely regarded as of high cultural significance.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
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                <itunes:author>Brendan Moir</itunes:author>
                
                <description><![CDATA[<p>The full collection of Nonsense poems by the father of nonsense poetry, Edward Lear. Come with me and experience fantastical vignettes of unscrupulous individuals as only Edward Lear can present them. Come find yourself in indescribable predicaments with equally hilarious resolutions. Edward Lear has taken great pains for this to be fun for the whole family, and by Jove, I believe I have taken the same care in preparing it for you to laugh at, so come! Come one and all and enjoy the novelty that is Edward Lear&#39;s Complete Nonsense.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow me on other platforms:</p><p><a href="https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemuse.bandcamp.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&locale=hi_IN" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN</a></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/bemuse" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/bemuse</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw</a></p><p><br></p><p>Website: <a href="https://bemusearts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bemusearts.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>*This Season&#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*</p><p><br></p><p>Edward Lear (1812 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson&#39;s poetry.</p><p><br></p><p>*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*</p>]]></description>
                <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The full collection of Nonsense poems by the father of nonsense poetry, Edward Lear. Come with me and experience fantastical vignettes of unscrupulous individuals as only Edward Lear can present them. Come find yourself in indescribable predicaments with equally hilarious resolutions. Edward Lear has taken great pains for this to be fun for the whole family, and by Jove, I believe I have taken the same care in preparing it for you to laugh at, so come! Come one and all and enjoy the novelty that is Edward Lear&amp;#39;s Complete Nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow me on other platforms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemuse.bandcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/talentunlimited1/?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wiNjFbd6rluEHZF4Qffcv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;locale=hi_IN&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070481824821&amp;amp;locale=hi_IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.patreon.com/bemuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZ_sUa8kfdu3qa6GSzbDiw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Website: &lt;a href=&#34;https://bemusearts.com/&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&gt;https://bemusearts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*This Season&amp;#39;s Album Art by Brian Fisher*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edward Lear (1812 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson&amp;#39;s poetry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Any views/ideas expressed in these plays are not my own, and I do not believe in the censoring of anything controversial or problematic that the playwright/poet/author has written which will impact the way in which the story is told. The integrity of these works is much more important to me than any triggering content, and therefore I would ask that you have the same maturity and mental framework to listen to these pieces of art and appreciate them in their proper historical context.*&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
                
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