# Maid's Tragedy

An audiobook by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, read by LibriVox volunteers (2 h 32 min, English).

Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (first published 1619) is a sensational Jacobean sex tragedy. When gentleman soldier Melantius returns to Rhodes, he finds his dear friend Amintor is recently married - but not to his troth-plight love Aspatia (the maid of the title). Instead, the King has arranged a match between Amintor and Melantius' sister, the beautiful Evadne. On his wedding night, Amintor finds that his new wife has married him under false pretenses - and this unleashes a torrent of dire consequences, sexual, emotional, and ultimately political. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast: Cleon: David Nicol Strato: Algy Pug Lysippus: mb Diphilus/Messenger/First Gentleman: Marty Kris Melantius: David Goldfarb Aspatia: Arielle Lipshaw Amintor: Peter Bishop Calianax: Andy Minter King: Bruce Pirie Evadne/Diagoras/Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Night/Antiphila: Availle Cynthia/Olympias: Skylark Neptune: Bob Gonzalez Eolus/Servant: Barry Eads Dula: Beth Thomas Lady: Bev J. Stevens Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett

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## Chapters

1. Act 1 (26:15): https://archive.org/download/maids_tragedy_1108_librivox/maidstragedy_1_beaumont_64kb.mp3
2. Act 2 (25:22): https://archive.org/download/maids_tragedy_1108_librivox/maidstragedy_2_beaumont_64kb.mp3
3. Act 3 (33:58): https://archive.org/download/maids_tragedy_1108_librivox/maidstragedy_3_beaumont_64kb.mp3
4. Act 4 (35:32): https://archive.org/download/maids_tragedy_1108_librivox/maidstragedy_4_beaumont_64kb.mp3
5. Act 5 (30:54): https://archive.org/download/maids_tragedy_1108_librivox/maidstragedy_5_beaumont_64kb.mp3