Audio Voice-Over Samples by Walter Rufus Eagles

Online Anthology of Lyrical Audio Poetry in Modern English, recorded by Walter Rufus Eagles ad majorem Dei gloriam

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VOICE-OVER SAMPLES by WALTER RUFUS EAGLES
past voice over workshop student of Dolores Diehl in Hollywood, and Janet Wilcox & Kathleen Dunn in their workshops at UCLA, with additional workshop in improvisational acting and monologues at UCLA.

Email: walter@eaglesweb.com Telephone / Fax: (818) 767-6789

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Audio book excerpts:
- Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County [0:41][comedy; narrative short story]
- Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [1:10][drama; narrative short story]
- George Bernard Shaw: Don Juan in Hell [1:12][drama; play]
- John Donne [1573-1631]: Meditation XVII ('. . .for whom the bell tolls') [4:16] [monologue; sermon]

Prose Poetry:
- D. H. Lawrence [1885-1930]: Snake [4:15][interior monologue]
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Dramatic and Comedic Monologues from the Greek Tragic Poets:
- Jason's Monologue from Medea by Euripides
- Prometheus's Monologue from Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
- Oedipus's Monologue from Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles
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Dramatic and Comedic Monologues from Wm. Shakespeare:
- Hamlet's Soliloquy, from Hamlet, (I,ii) (O that this too too sullied flesh. . .)[2:10 ]
- Hamlet's Soliloquy, from Hamlet, (III,i) ("To be or not to be. . .")[2:00 ]
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, from Macbeth (V, verses 19-28) [0:53]
- All the World's a Stage, from As You Like It [1:32]
- Our Revels Now Are Ended, from The Tempest (IV, i) [0:40]
- Caliban's Monologue: All the infections that the sun sucks up, from The Tempest (II,ii) [0:53]
- Clarence's Monologue from Richard III [2:52]
- Richard's Monologue from Richard III [2:29]
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Poetry:
- Siegfried Sassoon [1886-1967]: A Whispered Tale [0:55] [interior monologue]
- Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Fidele [0:53][antiphonal stanzas]
- W. H. Auden [1907-1973]: Elegy [0:59] [monologue; eulogy, from the movie, "Four Weddings & a Funeral']
- Ben Jonson [1572-1637]: The Triumph [1:25] [Elizabethan lute song; recitation]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge [1772-1834]: Kubla Khan [2:27] [story-form verse]
- Lewis Carroll [1832-1898]: You Are Old, Father William [1:39][colloquy: youth & age]
- Edmund Waller [1606-1687]: Go, Lovely Rose [0:49] [conventional]
- Edmund Waller [1606-1687]: Go, Lovely Rose [1:00] [farcical falsetto (parody): recited by "The Duchess of Blackpool" extrapolated from the character created by Alec Guiness in the movie, "The Horse's Mouth"]
- Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1939]: The Song of Wandering Aengus [1:02][1st person interior monologue]
- Wilfred Owen [1893-1918]: Disabled [2:42][3rd person interior monologue]
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson [1809-1883]: Ulysses [3:51][1st person interior/exterior monologue]
- Christina Rossetti [1830-1896]: After Death [0:50][post mortem 1st person interior monologue]
- (Anon. or Wm. Stevenson [1530?-1575]): A Song of Ale [2:11][drinking song lyrics, 1st person]
- William Blake [1757-1827]: The Chimney Sweeper [0:36][adult & child's voices]

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