Gulzara; or The Persian Slave

LibriVox recording of Gulzara; or The Persian Slave by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. Read in English by thestorygirl; Larry Wilson; TJ Burns; Jasmin Salma; Wayne Cooke; Kelly S. Taylor; E.J. Lavery “Gulzara, The Persian Slave” is a rare example of a script for a Victorian melodrama that was intended as a private theatrical – to be performed by a limited cast of amateurs in a home or school, not on a public stage. Rarer still, “Gulzara” was written by a female author to be performed by a cast of women. The only male character, Amurath, was a “breeches role,” played by a young girl. Thus this drama,