The Litigants: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Litigants by Jean Racine: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 1:10:47 running time and a link to listen.
The Litigants, credited to Jean Racine, 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 Litigants by Jean Racine. (Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell.) Read in English by ToddHW; Alan Mapstone; Greg Giordano; Son of the Exiles; Sonia; Mike Manolakes; Adrian Stephens; Hanna Ponomarenko; David Purdy This play, which is neither a comedy or a farce but has elements in common with each, was first performed in 1668 at Paris, and afterwards at Versailles. It is a French adaptation of "The Wasps" of Aristophanes. Racine's own experience of law and lawyers was derived from the suit in which he had been involved about the Priory of Epernay, during the course of which he picked up a number of barbarous terms "which," to quote his own words, "neither my judges nor I ever properly understood" - Summary by (The Translator) Cast list: Dandin, a judge: Alan Mapstone Leander, son of Dandin: Adrian Stephens Chicaneau, a citizen: Mike Manolakes Isabelle, daughter of Chicaneau: Hanna Ponomarenko The Countess: Sonia Petit-Jean, a house porter: ToddHW L'Intimé, a clerk: Greg Giordano The Prompter: David Purdy Stage Directions: Son of the Exiles Editing: ToddHW
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Litigants
- Author credits: Jean Racine
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 3
- Listed recording duration: 1:10:47
Catalogue topics
- Law
- wriys
Track guide
- 01 - Act 1 — 24:25
- 02 - Act 2 — 26:37
- 03 - Act 3 — 19:45
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