Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036
2 Anmeldelser

4

Længde
2T 27M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Digte

This pastoral is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, due to its delightful heroine, the wise, witty, and virtuous Rosalind, who complicates her love life by disguising herself as a young man.

ACT I Scene 1. Orlando, the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, has been kept “rustically at home” by his older brother, Oliver; he has been denied his inheritance and any formal education. When Orlando demands his birthright, the brothers come to blows. Charles the Wrestler describes how the old duke has been banished by his younger brother Frederick and has gone to live in the Forest of Arden. His daughter Rosalind has stayed at court with Celia, Frederick’s daughter. Hearing that Charles and Orlando are to wrestle the following day, Oliver lies to Charles, claiming that Orlando intends, if necessary, to resort to foul play in order to win the fight.

Scene 2. The courtier Le Beau urges Rosalind and Celia to watch the wrestling. They try to persuade the youthful Orlando not to fight, but he is determined to go ahead and succeeds in beating Charles. Frederick congratulates the victor but is displeased to learn of his parentage. Le Beau suggest that, the duke being so unpredictable, Orlando would be wise to leave the court. Orlando, who has fallen for the “heavenly Rosalind,” follows his advice.

Scene 3. Rosalind is telling Celia of her love for Orlando when Duke Frederick enters and banishes her from the court. Celia insists on accompanying her cousin and they decide to travel in disguise: Rosalind as a youth called Ganymede and Celia as his sister, Aliena. Their sole companion is to be the court fool Touchstone.

ACT II Scene 1. Duke Senior extols the joys of the hard, rustic life. A lord describes the melancholy Jaques’ distress at the brutality of the hunt.

Scene 2. Duke Frederick has learnt of the flight of Celia and Rosalind.

Scene 3. Orlando is warned by Adam, his father’s aged servant, that Oliver has resolved to murder him. Adam urges Orlando to escape, offering him his savings and his service.

Scene 4. Rosalind, Celia, and Touchstone are now in the Forest of Arden, where they overhear Silvius telling the shepherd Corin of his unrequited love for the scornful Phebe. The tired travelers ask for help and decide to buy Corin’s cottage and sheep.

Scene 5. Jaques, Amiens, and others sing together.

Scene 6. When Adam becomes faint with hunger and exhaustion, Orlando promises to find him food.

Scene 7. Jaques eulogizes Touchstone’s wisdom. As the exiled courtiers prepare to eat, Orlando enters brandishing his sword and demanding food. The Duke disarms him by graciously inviting him to eat. Whilst Orlando goes back to fetch Adam, Jaques ponders on the seven stages of life, from infancy to senility. The duke is delighted to learn that Orlando is the son of “the good Sir Rowland.”

ACT III Scene 1. Duke Frederick commands Oliver to find his missing brother and “bring him dead or living.”

Scene 2. Orlando wanders through the forest hanging verses in praise of Rosalind upon the trees. Rosalind derides the clumsy style until she realizes that their author is Orlando. When he arrives with Jaques, Rosalind (dressed as the boy Ganymede) draws him out on the subject of his love. She promises to cure him of his passion if he comes to her daily and woos her as if she were Rosalind.

Scene 3. Touchstone proposes to Audrey. Jaques intervenes, persuading them against being married by the ill-educated priest Sir Oliver Mar-Text.

Scene 4. Rosalind is devastated that Orlando has not come to woo her as he promised.

Scene 5. Silvius woos Phebe ardently, but she rebuffs his advances. When Rosalind accuses the shepherdess of pride Phebe is instantly infatuated with her/Ganymede. She decides to write to Ganymede and Silvius agrees to deliver the letter.

ACT IV Scene 1. Rosalind is scornful of Jaques’ melancholy, insisting “I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.” When Orlando arrives an hour late, she tells him that this is no sign of true love. Once alone with Celia again, she confesses the depth of her passion.

Scene 2. Jaques gives the exiled lords a hero’s welcome when they return from the hunt with a deer.

Scene 3. Silvius delivers Phebe’s stern letter to Rosalind who pretends not to believe that a woman could have written such words. Oliver enters carrying a bloody cloth and recounts how Orlando saved his life by killing the hungry lioness poised to attack him. The brothers are now reconciled and Oliver has been welcomed by the exiled duke. Rosalind swoons at the sight of the blood.

ACT V Scene 1. Touchstone dismisses William, a rival for Audrey’s affections.

Scene 2. Oliver and Celia are in love and plan to marry the following day. When Orlando tells Rosalind “how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes,” she claims to know a magician who will unite him with his beloved.

Scene 3. Touchstone and Audrey are to marry the next day.

Scene 4. Rosalind reveals her identity to Orlando and her father, as Hymen, the god of marriage, looks on. All four couples are now to be married. Jaques de Boys, Sir Rowland’s second son, arrives with news of Duke Frederick’s conversion; having met a hermit in the forest, he has resolved to restore the dukedom to his brother and to retire from the world. As the celebrations continue, Jaques the courtier decides to join Frederick in his religious life.

CAST Rosalind: Niamh Cusack / Orlando: Stephen Mangan / Jaques: Gerard Murphy / Touchstone: Clarence Smith / Celia: Victoria Hamilton / Silvius: Ian Pepperell / Phebe: Carolyn Backhouse / Duke Senior: Philip Voss / Duke Frederick: Hugh Ross / Oliver: Jonathan Tafler / Audrey: Sarah-Jane Holm / Adam: John Hollis / Amiens: Chook Sibtain / Le Beau: Sean Baker / Corin: Raymond Bowers / Charles the Wrestler: Matthew Morgan / Lord: Mark Lambert / Jaques de Boys: Duncan Bell

Director: Clive Bell / Composer: Dominique Le Gendre / Production coordinators: Polly Coles and Charlotte Harvey / Sound Engineer: Wilfredo Acosta / Producers: Bill Shepherd and Tom Treadwell

TRACK LIST Disc 1 Track 1: Act I, Scene i Track 2: Act I, Scene ii Track 3: Act I, Scene iii Track 4: Act II, Scene i Track 5: Act II, Scene ii Track 6: Act II, Scene iii Track 7: Act II, Scene iv Track 8: Act II, Scene v Track 9: Act II, Scene vi Track 10: Act II, Scene vii Track 11: Act III, Scene i Track 12: Act III, Scene ii (up to line 240)

Disc 2 Track 1: Act III, Scene ii (from line 241) Track 2: Act III, Scene iii Track 3: Act III, Scene iv Track 4: Act III, Scene v Track 5: Act IV, Scene i Track 6: Act IV, Scene ii Track 7: Act IV, Scene iii Track 8: Act V, Scene i Track 9: Act V, Scene ii Track 10: Act V, Scene iii Track 11: Act V, Scene iv Track 12: Epilogue

© 2005 Arkangel (Lydbog): 9781572708754

Release date

Lydbog: 15. oktober 2005

Tags

    Andre kan også lide...

    1. King Lear William Shakespeare
    2. Seven Classic Plays various authors
    3. Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare
    4. Macbeth William Shakespeare
    5. The Two Noble Kinsmen William Shakespeare
    6. The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
    7. Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind Harold Bloom
    8. Lear: The Great Image of Authority Harold Bloom
    9. Shakespeare Tales of Jealousy Edith Nesbit
    10. Iago: The Strategies of Evil Harold Bloom
    11. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel Milan Kundera
    12. Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
    13. Shakespeare Bill Bryson
    14. Hamlet William Shakespeare
    15. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary Jan Kott
    16. Free Will Sam Harris
    17. Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov
    18. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science Peter Godfrey-Smith
    19. Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War & God Will Durant
    20. On the Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    21. The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller
    22. Trust: the dazzling twisty story of power, greed and love that begins in 1920s New York Hernan Diaz
    23. Energy and Civilization: A History Vaclav Smil
    24. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
    25. Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
    26. Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East Fawaz A. Gerges
    27. The Anatomy of Fascism Robert O. Paxton
    28. Iran: A Modern History Abbas Amanat
    29. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
    30. Herzog Saul Bellow
    31. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization Paul Kriwaczek
    32. The City of God Saint Aurelius Augustinus
    33. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages Dan Jones
    34. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Catherine Nixey
    35. W. B. Yeats: Selected Poems William Butler Yeats
    36. Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche
    37. Medieval Europe Chris Wickham
    38. All The Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
    39. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
    40. The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe John Toland
    41. The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
    42. We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
    43. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
    44. Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction A. C. Grayling
    45. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine Barry Strauss
    46. The Thirteen Problems Agatha Christie
    47. T. S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems T. S. Eliot

    Vælg dit abonnement

    • Over 600.000 titler

    • Download og nyd titler offline

    • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

    • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

    • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

    Flex

    For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

    89 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • 20 timer/måned

    • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Prøv gratis
    Den mest populære

    Premium

    For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

    129 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • 100 timer/måned

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Start tilbuddet

    Unlimited

    For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

    149 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • Ubegrænset adgang

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Start tilbuddet

    Family

    For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

    Fra 179 kr. /måned
    • 2-6 konti

    • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

    • Ingen binding

    2 konti

    179 kr. /måned
    Prøv gratis