The Admirable Bashville: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Admirable Bashville, credited to George Bernard Shaw, 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 The Admirable Bashville, by George Bernard Shaw. The Admirable Bashville is a product of the British law of copyright. As that law stands at present, the first person who patches up a stage version of a novel, however worthless and absurd that version may be, and has it read by himself and a few confederates to another confederate who has paid for admission in a hall licensed for theatrical performances, secures the stage rights of that novel, even as against the author himself; and the author must buy him out before he can touch his own work for the purposes of the stage...As a good Socialist I do not at all object to the limitation of my right of property in my own works to a comparatively brief period, followed by complete Communism: in fact, I cannot see why the same salutary limitation should not be applied to all property rights whatsoever; but a system which enables any alert sharper to acquire property rights in my stories as against myself and the rest of the community would, it seems to me, justify a rebellion if authors were numerous and warlike enough to make one." (Summary by G.B. Shaw, from the Preface) Cast: Lydia/Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw Cashel Byron: Algy Pug Bob Mellish: Anthony Lucian: mb Bashville: Matthew Reece A Newsboy/Master of the Revels: TriciaG Cetewayo: Peter Bishop Lord Worthington: Alan Paradise/Adelaide Gisborne: Elizabeth Klett Audio edited by Arielle Lipshaw

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Admirable Bashville
• Author credits: George Bernard Shaw
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:10:38

Catalogue topics

• drama
• boxing

Track guide

1. 0 - Preface — 11:51
2. 1 - Act 1 — 10:47
3. 2 - Act 2 — 32:47
4. 3 - Act 3 — 15:04

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