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Humorous Readings and Recitations

Humorous Readings and Recitations

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Number of Chapters: 41

Length: 07 hours and 42 minutes

Language: English

Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important ways of sharing new works with the public or attracting public attention to issues and authors of the time. Public performance was, in a sense, the internet of its day, as people sought to learn of the world around them, as well as entertain themselves.
This anthology of short humorous pieces was intended as a ready reference of material of all sorts to those who participated in public performance, whether professionally, or as part of a school or community program. The pieces themselves were intended to be read aloud, shared with, and appreciated by, an audience. This intent is not dissimilar to the mission of Librivox in the twenty-first century.
They were written by popular authors of the period, some of whose names are still well known in the twenty first-century, such as J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan), Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), W.S. Gilbert (HMS Pinafore) and W.M. Thackeray (Vanity Fair), as well as others whose popularity has waned. (DrPGould)

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Preface (DrPGould)
Accompanied on the Flute (DrPGould)
The Troubles of a Triplet (BettyB)
Slightly Deaf (Julia Mikheeva)
The Lady Freemason (Lynda Marie Neilson)
What Happened Last Night! (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Fatal Legs (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Caliph's Jester (Lynda Marie Neilson)
A Journey in Search of Nothing (jimsvox4)
Gemini and Virgo (Lynda Marie Neilson)
King Bibbs (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Molly Muldoon (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Harmonious Lobsters (annabellesmith)
The Provincial Landlady (Lynda Marie Neilson)
My Matrimonial Predicament (dvlnblkdrs)
Etiquette (BettyB)
Lost Shepherd (Tom Penn)
Mathematic Madness (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Waiting at Tottlepot (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Married to a Giantess (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Vision of the Alderman (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Demon Snuffers (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Walrus and the Carpenter (Linda Olsen Fitak)
My Brother Henry (Tom Penn)
A Night with a Stork (Tom Penn)
The Faithful Lovers (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Wail of a Banner-Bearer (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Dream of the Bilious Beadle (Lynda Marie Neilson)
My Friend Treacle (Lynda Marie Neilson)
The Voice of the Sluggard (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Artemus Ward's Visit to the Tower of London (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Mr. Caudle has lent an Acquaintance the Family Umbrella (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Domestic Asides (Linda Olsen Fitak)
The Charity Dinner (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Acting with a Vengeance (Lynda Marie Neilson)
My Fortnight at Wretchedville (jimsvox4)
The Sorrows of Werther (Linda Olsen Fitak)
Moral Music (Kathleen Moore)
Billy Dumps, the Tailor (Kathleen Moore)
On Punning (Lynda Marie Neilson)
Seaside Lodgings (Lynda Marie Neilson)
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