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Oroonoko - Thomas Southerne
Oroonoko - Thomas Southerne
- Author: Thomas Southerne
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
Based on Aphra Behn's 1688 novel (which is one of the earliest novels in the English language), Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko is seen by scholars today as the driving force that kept Behn's work from fading into obscurity. During the eighteenth and...
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken...
The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, first published in 1634. Set in ancient Greece during a war between Athens and Thebes, the narrative follows the title characters, Palamon and...
Measure for Measure (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Drama
Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare's more enigmatic works. As one of the so-called "problem plays," it mixes a dark plot with light overtones, without resolving the tensions inherent in either. Its central conflict is spurred on when...
The Doctor's Dilemma - George Bernard Shaw
The Doctor's Dilemma - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Comedy
The Doctor's Dilemma is about Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, who has recently been knighted because of a miraculous new treatment he developed for tuberculosis. As his friends arrive to congratulate him on his success, he is visited by two figures who present...
The Taming of the Shrew (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
When local drunkard Christopher Sly walks into a tavern, the last thing he expects is a complex trick where, to the amusement of many others, he is tricked into believing that he's a nobleman! And so begins the Taming of the Shrew, one of...
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Hidden and mistaken identities, requited and unrequited loves, pranks and jokes abound in this romantic comedy. (Summary by Karen Savage) Cast: Orsino, Duke of Illyria - Joshua B. Christensen Sebastian - Madame Tusk Antonio, a Sea Captain, friend to...
The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed - John Fletcher
The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed - John Fletcher
- Author: John Fletcher
- Genre: Comedy
John Fletcher's comedy (probably written and performed around 1611) is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in which, as the title suggests, the tamer will be tamed. Petruchio, the shrew-tamer, has been widowed, and marries a second...
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest. Focusing on the aging sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero, we are transported to a remote island where magic and strange music...
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
One of Shakespeareβs most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love...
Why Marry? - Jesse Lynch Williams
Why Marry? - Jesse Lynch Williams
- Author: Jesse Lynch Williams
- Genre: Comedy
Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will she be convinced that marriage...
Pride and Prejudice: A Play - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice: A Play - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters, but it is still a fun listen or...
The Frogs - Aristophanes
The Frogs - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Athens is in a sorry state of affairs. The great tragedian, Euripides, is dead, and Dionysus, the god of the theater, has to listen to third-rate poetry. So, he determines to pack his belongings onto his trusty slave, Xanthias, and journey to the...
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeareβs best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics. Much Ado About Nothing chronicles two pairs of...
The Sea Voyage - John Fletcher
The Sea Voyage - John Fletcher
- Author: John Fletcher
- Genre: Comedy
Albert, a handsome French pirate, and his crew get shipwrecked on a barren, rocky island after a severe storm. They encounter another pair of castaways who reveal a quite unusual secret- yet another strange group of people inhabit the island. Albert...
The Admirable Bashville - George Bernard Shaw
The Admirable Bashville - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Comedy
The Admirable Bashville is a product of the British law of copyright. As that law stands at present, the first person who patches up a stage version of a novel, however worthless and absurd that version may be, and has it read by himself and a few...
The Amazons: A Farcical Romance - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Amazons: A Farcical Romance - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Comedy
This 1895 farce inspired by the outlandish idea of women wearing pants, centers around the predicament of the three daughters of the eccentric Marchioness of Castlejordan, who determined to have sons, raised them like boys. She encouraged them to...
Ivanov - Anton Chekhov
Ivanov - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Plays / Comedy / Tragedy
Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her family after converting from Judaism, is dying of tuberculosis. He is deeply in debt. And his best friendβs...
The Country Wife - William WYCHERLEY
The Country Wife - William WYCHERLEY
- Author: William WYCHERLEY
- Genre: Comedy / Satire
One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherleyβs The Country Wife is a lively and riotous exploration of courtly and city life in the seventeenth century, which was rife with unremitting sexual intrigue and conquest....
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Generally considered one of Shakespeare's problem plays, Measure for Measure examines the ideas of sin and justice. Duke Vincentio turns Vienna's rule over to the corrupt Angelo, who sentences Claudio to death for having impregnated a woman before...
Twelfth Night (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated from each other by a shipwreck. Viola, believing her brother dead, disguises herself as a...
The Beaux Stratagem - George Farquhar
The Beaux Stratagem - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
Two gentlemen of broken fortune, disguised as master and servant, and thinking that a good dowry split both ways would solve their problems; some cludgy highwaymen and their confederates; foxy inn-keeper and saucy daughter; a country home with a...
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Described as a "problem play" Measure for Measure is only as much a problem as life itself is- that is, are there any easy answers to questions aplenty? For example: when "mortality and mercy" live in one person's mouth, can justice be said to exist...
Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks by Lording Barry - Lording BARRY
Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks by Lording Barry - Lording BARRY
- Author: Lording BARRY
- Genre: Comedy
Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks, is a bawdy comedy by Lording Barry, a contemporary of Shakespeare. The production bankrupted Barry, landed him in debtor's jail, and set him off on a life of piracy. The action of Ram Alley takes place in a disreputable...
As You Like It (version 2) - William Shakespeare
As You Like It (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy was written and first performed around 1599, and presents some of his familiar motifs: a cross-dressing heroine, a wise-cracking fool, brothers usurping their brothers' power, a journey from the court to the country,...
Our American Cousin - Tom TAYLOR
Our American Cousin - Tom TAYLOR
- Author: Tom TAYLOR
- Genre: Comedy
Our American Cousin is an 1858 three-act play by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play is a farce whose plot is based on the introduction of an awkward, boorish, but honest American, Asa Trenchard, to his aristocratic English relatives when he...
The Comedy of Errors (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers,...
Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
Uncle Vanya (subtitled βScenes From Country Lifeβ) is a tragicomedy by Anton Chekhov. It is set on the failing country estate of a retired professor, Serebrakoff, who returns after a long absence with his beautiful young wife, and throws the...
Lysistrata (version 3) - Aristophanes
Lysistrata (version 3) - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the one thing that perhaps men enjoy...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 3) - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon....
Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Love's Labour's Lost is an early comedy by William Shakespeare. The King of Navarre and his three friends take a vow of study and seclusion for three years, during which they are forbidden to see or speak to women. Their vows are immediately tested...
The Drummer, or, The Haunted House - Joseph ADDISON
The Drummer, or, The Haunted House - Joseph ADDISON
- Author: Joseph ADDISON
- Genre: Comedy
Lady Truman received word fourteen months ago that her husband, Sir George Truman, has died in battle. Now a very eligible widow with a large estate, she has more suitors than she knows what to do with. As if that wasn't enough, her house is now...
Volpone, or, The Fox - Ben Jonson
Volpone, or, The Fox - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Comedy
Volpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is among the finest Jacobean Era comedies. Volpone is...
Miss Civilization - Richard Harding Davis
Miss Civilization - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Comedy
Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a young woman who matches wits with three burglars attempting to rob her house. This recording was made in Chicago at the LibriVox World Gathering in May 2007. Cast: Kristin Hughes Betsie Bush...
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and was inspired by classical Roman comedy and the Italian commedia dell'arte. Baptista Minola, a rich gentleman of Padua, has two daughters: Katherina, renowned for her sharp...
The Shoemaker's Holiday - Thomas DEKKER
The Shoemaker's Holiday - Thomas DEKKER
- Author: Thomas DEKKER
- Genre: Comedy
The Shoemaker's Holiday is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. It was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men. It falls into the sub-genre of city comedy (depicting ordinary London life). Aristocrat Rowland Lacy falls in love with...
Porcelain and Pink - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Porcelain and Pink - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Comedy
"Porcelain and Pink" is a comic one-act play from the 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. The plot involves a young woman in a bathtub and a case of mistaken identity. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) Characters: Julie β Holly Bliss...
The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce - William MOUNTFORT
The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce - William MOUNTFORT
- Author: William MOUNTFORT
- Genre: Comedy
First produced between 1684-1688, this - as the title says - is Faust played as a comedy. Angels to go along with Mephistopholis and Lucifer and Beelzebub, sure, but also the Seven Deadly Sins and wait a minute - Scaramouche and Harlequin?? (The...
Whittington and his Cat - E. L. BLANCHARD
Whittington and his Cat - E. L. BLANCHARD
- Author: E. L. BLANCHARD
- Genre: Comedy
Whittington and his Cat, or Harlequin Lord Mayor of London was the 26th Grand Comic Christmas Annual, written by E. L. Blanchard for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in 1875. Pantomimes are a favourite Christmas entertainment in...
Major Barbara - George Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Comedy
George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic Lady Britomart Undershaft and her estranged husband Andrew, a millionaire armaments manufacturer. Their daughters Sarah and Barbara are both engaged to be married, and Lady...