Love for Love: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Love for Love, credited to William Congreve, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Love for Love by William Congreve. Read in English by Tommy Hersant; Alan Mapstone; Greg Giordano; Son of the Exiles; MichaelMaggs; Wayne Cooke; Andrew James; WendyKatzHiller; ToddHW; Sonia; Jenn Broda; Adrian Stephens; mleigh; Kathi M. Walsheck; Tomas Peter; Kelly S. Taylor "We have such a gallery, if not of great characters, at any rate of strongly-marked acting parts, as could not but ensure the success of the play... The plot was clear and simple, the action coherent and continuous, there is nothing to surprise us in the instantaneous triumph of Love for Love." - Summary by William Archer, editor, 1912 Cast list: Sir Sampson Legend, father to Valentine and Ben: Adrian Stephens Valentine, fallen under his father’s displeasure by his expensive way of living, in love with Angelica: Tommy Hersant Scandal, his friend, a free speaker: Andrew James Tattle, a half-witted beau, vain of his amours, yet valuing himself for secrecy: Son of the Exiles Ben, Sir Sampson’s younger son, half home-bred and half sea-bred, designed to marry Miss Prue: Tomas Peter Foresight, an illiterate old fellow, peevish and positive, superstitious, and pretending to understand astrology, palmistry, physiognomy, omens, dreams, etc.; uncle to Angelica: ToddHW Jeremy, servant to Valentine: Alan Mapstone Trapland, a scrivener: Greg Giordano Buckram, a lawyer: Greg Giordano Angelica, niece to Foresight, of a considerable fortune in her own hands: Sonia Mrs. Foresight, second wife to Foresight: mleigh Mrs. Frail, sister to Mrs. Foresight, a woman of the town: WendyKatzHiller Miss Prue, daughter to Foresight by a former wife, a silly, awkward country girl: Jenn Broda Nurse to Miss Prue: Kathi M. Walsheck Jenny, maid to Angelica: Kelly S. Taylor Officer: Wayne Cooke Servant: Wayne Cooke Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Editing: ToddHW

Recording facts

• Recording title: Love for Love
• Author credits: William Congreve
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 3:59:23

Catalogue topics

• fraud
• Beau
• fortune

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 50:11
2. 02 - Act 2 — 42:28
3. 03 - Act 3 — 50:02
4. 04 - Act 4 — 53:31
5. 05 - Act 5 — 43:11

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