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Title	:	Under Milk Wood
Author	:	Dylan Thomas
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 121 pages
Published	:	1954 by New Directions
Categories	:	Plays. Poetry. Drama. Classics. Fiction. Theatre

Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas

Paperback | Pages: 121 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 5851 Users | 418 Reviews

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Some works of literature just beg to be read out loud - This is the House that Jack Built and Hiawatha are two that most people are familiar with. Under Milk Wood too, is better appreciated read aloud.

Try it for yourself. A sample (read aloud with Welsh accent, sing-song, go up like a question at the end of the line, extend vowels, as in 'weeedkiller' and emphasis is usually on the first syllable.)

FIRST VOICE

Mr Pugh, in the School House opposite, takes up the morning
tea to Mrs Pugh, and whispers on the stairs

MR. PUGH

Here's your arsenic, dear.
And your weedkiller biscuit.
I've throttled your parakeet.
I've spat in the vases.
I've put cheese in the mouseholes.
Here's your... [_Door creaks open_
...nice tea, dear.

MRS PUGH

Too much sugar.

Or try this, read by Richard Burton, who was also from the same area so has exactly the right intonation. full cast production of Under Milk Wood If you would like to listen to a young Richard Burton reading the play alone (which I much prefer), it is in two parts, part one and part two.

When I read this play by Dylan Thomas, I hear the village life of my childhood come to life. He caught the lilt and cadence of the Valleys speech and the trivial preoccupations of the people perfectly. Of course it helps that like Dylan Thomas I am also from South Wales and have the accent down pat!

A little known fact, apparent to all Welsh people but no-one else, is that the village of Llareggub which looks perfectly Welsh is actually the English Bugger All backwards. (If it had been Welsh it would have been Llanreggub and mean the Parish of St. Reggub).

Dylan Thomas wasn't at all poetic, his poems are just as much for people who don't like poetry as those who like reading it and contemplating what the poet meant by his imagery. There is not such issue with Dylan Thomas, he says what he means and you get it straightaway.

If you enjoyed the play, read Dylan Thomas's magnificent [book:Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night|6619539].

Considerably rewritten 18 October on being told the link to Under Milk Wood no longer worked.

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Original Title:	Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices
ISBN:	0811202097 (ISBN13: 9780811202091)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dylan Thomas, Dai Bread, Polly Garter, Nogood Boyo, Gossamer Beynon, Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, Captain Cat
Setting:	United Kingdom LLareggub, Wales Wales

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Many years ago, I bought the vinyl LP of the BBC radio production of Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood. Its subtitled, A Play for Voices, and thats about as accurate a description as I can think of. The radio production is superb, with the brilliant Richard Burton articulating the First Voice in his own inimitable style. A wonderful listening experience.But what of the text? I picked up a copy from a small independent bookshop whilst shopping in Beverley with my daughter for a student cook book,

Wow, what a writer! This is a book I couldnt let go. I reread some passages over and over just to enjoy the words.What was most enjoyable was reading the play while listening to Richard Burton as the narrator. That is a treat! Try it.

Wow... Yup, this is going in my recommendation list to other people whether they ask for it or not.

Hate:MRS PUGHGive me the parcel. WILLY NILLY [postman whose wife reads all the mail to him before he delivers it:]It's for Mr Pugh, Mrs Pugh. MRS PUGHNever you mind. What's inside it? WILLY NILLYA book called Lives of the Great Poisoners.[later:]MRS PUGHPersons with manners do not read at table, FIRST VOICEsays Mrs Pugh. She swallows a digestive tablet as big as ahorse-pill, washing it down with clouded peasoup water. [Pause:] MRS PUGHSome persons were brought up in pigsties. MR PUGHPigs don't

A smorgasbord of language. I am still blown away every time I read that first measured sentence, about the woodland limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.If you only knew Dylan Thomas from his short poems (as I did before I read this) then prepare for a very pleasant shock. The wonderful rhythm of the lines here, the extraordinary creativity of compound words and unexpected similes, all sustained over a considerable distance, is something quite

Some works of literature just beg to be read out loud - This is the House that Jack Built and Hiawatha are two that most people are familiar with. Under Milk Wood too, is better appreciated read aloud. Try it for yourself. A sample (read aloud with Welsh accent, sing-song, go up like a question at the end of the line, extend vowels, as in 'weeedkiller' and emphasis is usually on the first syllable.)FIRST VOICEMr Pugh, in the School House opposite, takes up the morningtea to Mrs Pugh, and

We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.The voices of Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood rise and fall, crashing into each other like waves under a milky moon, their sweet prose an effervescence of sounds and syllables to intoxicate the soul. This play for voices follows the lives of the citizens of Milk Wood across a full day, bookmarked by the surrealistically sensational dream sequences of the two nights. The play simply engulfs you in its beautiful embrace, like the warm