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The Old Bachelor

LibriVox recording of The Old Bachelor by William Congreve. Read in English by a full cast. "In The Old Bachelor we have three or four concurrent plots, which become interwoven, indeed, at the end.... It is recorded that the successive unmasking of four beautiful women gave the audience such delight that they burst into a thunder of applause. "Here, then, was a play compounded of quite familiar elements, and attempting nothing in the least new or ambitious in technic.... But each of the actions was clear, spirited, and suited to the taste of the day; and the familiarity of the material was redeemed by the novel vivacity of the author's wit." - Summary by William Archer, editor, 1912 Cast list: Heartwell, a surly old bachelor, pretending to slight women, secretly in love with Silvia: ToddHW Bellmour, in love with Belinda: Jason in Panama Vainlove, capricious in his love; in love with Araminta: Tomas Peter Sharper: KHand Sir Joseph Wittol: Adrian Stephens Captain Bluffe: Adam Bielka Fondlewife, a banker: Larry Wilson Setter, a pimp: alanmapstone Barnaby, servant to Fondlewife: Craig Franklin Araminta, in love with Vainlove: B L Newman Belinda, her cousin, an affected lady, in love wi

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