Dramatic Reading Suggestions

aaronml · Post by **aaronml** » June 19th, 2016, 5:41 pm

What if somebody did a dramatic reading The Story of King Arthur and his Knights? I think it would be great. I mean, there isn't even a normal reading for it. Only the second book. And that's in progress.

P.S. If it does get picked up, I would like to be narrator please. Not the BC though.

Elizabby · Post by **Elizabby** » June 19th, 2016, 6:33 pm

This has been on my to-do list for ages! The difficulty is finding a suitable text. There are lots of King Arthur texts, but not many in a style suitable for a DR, oddly. I think because of the traditional "storytelling" style there isn't much dialogue in most texts.

aaronml · Post by **aaronml** » June 19th, 2016, 7:07 pm

Great! How about the first book in Howard Pyle's Series?

aaronml · Post by **aaronml** » June 19th, 2016, 7:10 pm

Here's a link to Amazon

aaronml · Post by **aaronml** » June 19th, 2016, 8:37 pm

It's not on Gutenburg for some reason...

Post by **annise** » June 19th, 2016, 8:56 pm

Try Archive

Anne

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiGwcOx3LXNAhXMo5QKHbD5BeoQFggyMAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fstoryofkingarthu00pylerich&usg=AFQjCNE0-mohz0qkZ1oi_oeQPKytxhWLeQ

aaronml · Post by **aaronml** » June 19th, 2016, 9:32 pm

That's Great! Thank you!

Elizabby · Post by **Elizabby** » June 19th, 2016, 10:13 pm

Oh yes, that's why I didn't do it. If the text is on PG I can cut and paste to make the script. With this kind of scanned copy I'd have to retype the whole thing, and I don't have that kind of time.

I'd be happy to BC a straight chapter by chapter reading of the book if that would be of interest?

aaronml · Post by **aaronml** » June 20th, 2016, 8:48 am

Would the full text download option work
?

AdeledePignerolles · Post by **AdeledePignerolles** » June 20th, 2016, 8:59 am

It would work, except that the archive text is OCR'd and really hard to read because most of them (all of them?) don't scan perfectly. You would have to go through and fix every error and type in missing pages, which is as much work as re-typing the entire book.

aaronml · Post by **aaronml** » June 20th, 2016, 9:14 am

How about the Celtic Twilight project The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle? It has pictures, But there are no type Os, and is possible to copy and paste.

you could just not copy the pictures!

Post by **TriciaG** » June 20th, 2016, 9:22 am

aaronml wrote:What if somebody did a dramatic reading The Story of King Arthur and his Knights? I think it would be great. I mean, there isn't even a normal reading for it. Only the second book. And that's in progress.

P.S. If it does get picked up, I would like to be narrator please. Not the BC though.

There's a dramatic version here: https://librivox.org/king-arthur-a-drama-by-joseph-comyns-carr/
And I'm not sure what you mean about there not being normal readings of King Arthur: https://librivox.org/search?q=arthur&search_form=advanced

aaronml · Post by **aaronml** » June 20th, 2016, 9:25 am

I meant by Howard Pyle. But thanks anyway.

ej400 · Post by **ej400** » June 20th, 2016, 10:01 am

aaronml wrote:How about the Celtic Twilight project The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle? It has pictures, But there are no type Os, and is possible to copy and paste. you could just not copy the pictures!

That was the link I used when I read that book, great book, and a great idea!

ej400 · Post by **ej400** » June 20th, 2016, 10:04 am

Archive does have it: https://archive.org/details/storykingarthur01pylegoog