Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady - Samuel Richardson

Category: Classic, Literature, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: 18th Century Epistolary

Written by Samuel Richardson
Read by Richard Armitage, Zoe Waites
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Abridged

Duration: 3 hrs 50 mins

[Radio adaptation for BBC 4]

Adapted by: Hattie Naylor
Directed by: Marilyn Imrie
Produced by: Catherine Bailey Limited
Cast:
Clarissa Howe – Zoe Waites
Robert Lovelace - Richard Armitage
James Harlowe - Oliver Milburn
Solmes - Stephen Critchlow
Bella Harlowe - Sophie Thompson
Lady Harlowe - Alison Steadman
Lord Harlowe - John Rowe
Mrs Norton - Deborah Findlay
Anna Howe - Cathy Sara

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire.

Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, “Clarissa” is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy.

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