On 23rd October 2009, the Faculty of Englishalong with Trinity College, Cambridge, celebrated the bicentennial birthday of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Throughout the day, various members of the Faculty of English read a good portion of his poetic output. These readings were performed in the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio and also broadcast live over the Internet. In this recording, performance-maker and writer Jeremy Hardingham performs Maud; a Monodrama, first published in 1855. One of Tennyson's most unusual works, Maud tells itsstory entirely through the voice of its unnamed speaker, moving through a sequence of lyrics as his...
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