The Gamester: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Gamester by Edward Moore: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 5 original MP3 tracks, 2:38:58 running time and a link to listen.
The Gamester, credited to Edward Moore, 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 Gamester by Edward Moore. Read in English by ToddHW; alanmapstone; Rob Marland; Joseph Tabler; Sonia; Tomas Peter; Eva Davis; Linda Olsen Fitak; TJ Burns; Nemo; Son of the Exiles The Gamester is Edward Moore's most famous work, and while it has fallen into relative obscurity in the last century, at the time it marked an important shift in the staging of eighteenth century tragedy. More specifically, it was one of the first plays to depict bourgeois suffering through the valence of moral values, moving the genre away from the lofty depiction of kings and empires toward something much closer to home for middle-class audiences. As such, the play depicts the trials and tribulations of Beverley, a dissolute gambler whose uncontrollable addiction has endangered the financial security of his household. Unbeknownst to him, however, is the fact that his money is being pocketed by a cadre of villainous sharpers led by the Machiavellian Stukely, who has designs on Beverley's wife and pretends to be his concerned friend. What follows is a drama that, while not possessing the greatest artistic merit, nevertheless affects us as keenly as it did the people who saw its first performance at the Drury Lane Theater on February 7, 1753. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast list: Beverley: ToddHW Lewson: TJ Burns Stukely: Tomas Peter Jarvis: Alan Mapstone Bates: Joseph Tabler Dawson: Son of the Exiles Mrs. Beverley: Linda Olsen Fitak Charlotte: Eva Davis Lucy: Sonia Waiter: Nemo Narrator: Rob Marland Editor: Tomas Peter
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Gamester
- Author credits: Edward Moore
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 5
- Listed recording duration: 2:38:58
Catalogue topics
- tragedy
- morality
- gambling
- bourgeois
- domestic
- english drama
- edward moore
- middle class
Track guide
- 01 - Act I — 32:11
- 02 - Act II — 25:36
- 03 - Act III — 34:35
- 04 - Act IV — 27:17
- 05 - Act V — 39:19
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