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Richard Burton reads Shakespeare's narrative poem about the legendary Lucretia (or 'Lucrece'). The poem tells the story of the Roman leader Tarquin's rape of Lucrece and her subsequent suicide.

These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In Venus and Adonis, the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love - but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare draws on the Roman tale of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequencies. These poems give prominent parts to the two heroines, and Clare Corbett and Eve Best shine.

The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator. As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human behaviour encompassing the bestial and the beautiful.

Alison Young seems to have it all: a brilliant career, a beautiful San Francisco townhouse, a loving husband, and a talented teenage daughter. But for 18 years, Alison has kept a terrible secret: She was the victim of a violent rape, and her daughter is the result of it. Unable to bring her attacker to trial or get a legal abortion, Alison left her hometown, reinvented her past, and built a new life for herself. Now, however, someone threatens to destroy all that Alison has achieved.

পূর্ব-পশ্চিম, উত্তর-দক্ষিণ যে কোনো দিক থেকেই হাজার হাজার মাইল প্রশান্ত মহাসাগর না পার হলে এই দ্বীপের দেখা মিলবে না। উপন্যাসটিতে বর্ণিত হয়েছে ওখানকার আদিম তথা বর্তমান মানুষ - মানুষীদের এক রোমাঞ্চকর কাহিনি যা ভাষায়, ভাবে, আচারে, ব্যবহারে, কাজ কর্মে, বলতে গেলে সব ক্ষেত্রেই আমাদের চেনা। এ কাহিনী কোথাও রক্তস্নানে সিক্ত, আবার কোথাও বা আদিম রিপুর উন্মাদনায় পাগল পারা। গল্পটি প্রাপ্ত বয়স্কদের জন্য। শুধুমাত্র Storytel -এ।

The Rape of Lucrece follows a popular story from one of Shakespeare's favourite ancient writers, Ovid. Lucrece is the angelic wife of Collatine, an illustrious Roman general. She is coveted and eventually attacked by Prince Tarquin, Collatine's best friend.

Alexander Pope was celebrated for his command of classical Greek and produced seminal translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Prior to the preparation of these translations, Pope took advantage of his mastery of the classical style and also his waspish wit to compose a burlesque epic about the theft of a lock of hair. The incident that inspired Pope was related to him by his friend John Caryll. Lord Petre had cut off a lock of the hair of Arabella Fermor, whom he was courting at the time, without asking the lady's permission.

David Ian Davies performs this unique and exciting reading of William Shakespeare's erotic poem, The Rape of Lucrece - not available on cassette or CD!

'The Rape of the Lock' was one of Alexander Pope's most popular poems. It was a satirical attempt to reconcile the real-life warring of two Catholic families whose feud had started with the supposed nicking of a lock of hair from the undeniably beautiful head of Arabella Fermor by her admirer, Lord Petre.

Un mondo popolato da personaggi allucinati e lucidissimi. Una storia di amori pericolosi e disordinati, di fughe e cospirazioni, il cui racconto si intreccia a momenti di violenta poesia che indagano i protagonisti sempre più chiusi in sé stessi. Perché, dopotutto, senza le ossessioni che tentiamo di nascondere di noi rimane ben poco. L'esordio di uno scrittore impertinente, disperato, gioioso. Un talento. Remo abita in un'imprecisata città del Nordest, indecisa fra la provincia e la metropoli, tra la montagna e il mare.

In rural Turkey, Meryem is raped by her uncle. Outcast for shaming her family, she is expected to kill herself. Her commando cousin instead tells her he will take her to Istanbul. By chance, they meet Irfan, a celebrity professor who has left his wife, and the three embark on a journey that shows what unexpected things can happen in the space between wounded people.

La historia de dos mujeres: una famosa cantante, Cordelia, incapaz siquiera de entonar, y su doble, Iris. Habitan un mundo en donde a los Dioses los crean los hombres; nunca al reves. Estos Dioses existen en un mundo que invade un Dios Impostor quien reinventa el cielo a imagen y semejanza del infierno ¿ ahi viven los hombres ¿ y que el primer dia crea el pavimento, el Segundo los embotellamientos, y asi la contaminacion y etcetera: el caotico y corrupto mundo de una ciudad como la de Mexico.

Un viol ordinaire est l’histoire de Laurent, un homme normal, qui un soir oblige Léa, sa blonde, à faire quelque chose qu’elle ne veut pas. Ce geste, ce viol ordinaire, ébranle la vie de la famille.