Comedy - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
The Changeling - Thomas Middleton
The Changeling - Thomas Middleton
- Author: Thomas Middleton
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
The Changeling is a sensational 1622 tragicomedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley that comprises two intertwining plots. The first involves Beatrice-Joanna, daughter of the governor of Alicante, and her unruly passion for Alsemero, despite the...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 2) - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Shakespeare's festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered Amazonian bride Hippolyta) with four contentious lovers, a forest full of quarreling and mischievous fairies and adds a dose of amateur theatre for...
Alice in Wonderland (Drama) - Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland (Drama) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Comedy
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes through the looking glass and encounters a variety of strange and wonderful creatures from favorite scenes...
The Law Against Lovers - William DAVENANT
The Law Against Lovers - William DAVENANT
- Author: William DAVENANT
- Genre: Comedy
The Law Against Lovers was a dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare, arranged by Sir William Davenant and staged by the Duke's Company in 1662. It was the first of the many Shakespearean adaptations staged during the Restoration era. Davenant was not...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is the earliest comedy written by Shakespeare (and possibly his first play), probably written around 1590-91. It focuses on two friends, Valentine and Proteus, whose friendship is disrupted by their mutual passion for the...
The Strange Gentleman - Charles Dickens
The Strange Gentleman - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Comedy
Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts”. Characters arrive at a village inn called “The St. James Arms” and much confusion ensues. (Summary by...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Comedy
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," and has proved immensely popular since its first performance in 1895. The play certainly has its farcical and comic elements, such as the witty banter...
Cupid's Whirligig - Edward SHARPHAM
Cupid's Whirligig - Edward SHARPHAM
- Author: Edward SHARPHAM
- Genre: Comedy
Cupid's Whirligig is a city comedy: a play in colloquial language dealing with the everyday life of London's citizens. A knight, Sir Timothy Troublesome, suspects his wife of cheating on him and, to prove that any children she bears are not his own,...
The Tempest - John Dryden
The Tempest - John Dryden
- Author: John Dryden
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
John Dryden and William D'Avenant's Restoration adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest preserves the main plot and characters of the original. Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, lives on an isolated island with his daughter Miranda, and plans to...
The Princess Zoubaroff - Ronald FIRBANK
The Princess Zoubaroff - Ronald FIRBANK
- Author: Ronald FIRBANK
- Genre: Comedy
The Princess Zoubaroff is a witty, subversive, and unbelievably suggestive play, far ahead of its time. Through razor-sharp dialogue and outrageous scenarios, Ronald Firbanks takes aim at all of the sacred cows of polite English society: matrimony,...
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Comedy / Satire
” “Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable.” Such is the preface of F....
The Miser - Molière
The Miser - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Comedy
The Miser is a comedy of manners about a rich moneylender named Harpagon. His feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers. Although the 17th-century French upper classes presumably objected to...
All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Despite its optimistic title, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well has often been considered a "problem play." Ostensibly a comedy, the play also has fairy tale elements, as it focuses on Helena, a virtuous orphan, who loves Bertram, the haughty...
Lysistrata (version 2) - Aristophanes
Lysistrata (version 2) - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Comedy
Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female friends from other Greek cities, she persuades all women of Greece to pledge an oath and refrain from all...
Amends for Ladies - Nathan FIELD
Amends for Ladies - Nathan FIELD
- Author: Nathan FIELD
- Genre: Comedy
Amends for Ladies falls within the genre of Jacobean city comedy. Three women debate which has the better lot: a maid, a wife, or a widow. Lady Honour, the maid, is loved by her servant, Ingen, and disguises herself as a boy to become servant to...
Creditors - August Strindberg
Creditors - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
Creditors is a tragicomedy by August Strindberg that plumbs the depths of the twisted triangular relationship between Tekla, her husband Adolph, and her ex-husband Gustav. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast: Tekla: Elizabeth Klett Adolph: mb Gustav:...
The Skin Game - John Galsworthy
The Skin Game - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives in the manor house where his...
The Village Coquettes - Charles Dickens
The Village Coquettes - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Comedy
Before he started writing novels, Charles Dickens tried his hand at theater. The Village Coquettes is a two act musical. Sadly the music was lost long ago so this will be a spoken version. This play completes the recording of the relatively unknown...
The Silver Box - John Galsworthy
The Silver Box - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
This is a lovely comedy about the theft of a prostitute's purse by a rich 'young man of good family. It is placed beside the theft of a silver cigarette case from the rich man's father's house by 'a poor devil', with very different repercussions. -...
Candida - George Bernard Shaw
Candida - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Comedy
Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's...
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey's head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left. What's going on here? It's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare at his most fanciful. The play opens with...
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to...
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Lysistrata read by a group of college students. First performed in classical Athens c. 411 B.C.E., Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” is the original battle of the sexes. One woman, Lysistrata, brings together the women of all Greece, exhorting them to...
Heartbreak House - George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Comedy
On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father’s a bumbling prig, and she’s actually in love with Hector,...
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Written around the middle of his career, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's great festive comedies. The men are back from the war, and everyone is ready for romance. The dashing young Claudio falls for Hero, the daughter of Leonato,...
The Parson's Wedding - Thomas KILLIGREW
The Parson's Wedding - Thomas KILLIGREW
- Author: Thomas KILLIGREW
- Genre: Comedy
Often considered Killigrew's best play, this is a comedy with a bawdy tone where people flirt, trick each other and everyone else. It was the first play in England to be performed with an all female crew. - Summary by Kristingj Cast List Narration:...
Patience (Bunthorne's Bride) - W. S. Gilbert
Patience (Bunthorne's Bride) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
A comic operetta which is a satire on the themes of fashion and pretension and hero-worship. Bunthorne is a poet who pretends to be highly "idealised" in order to impress the ladies. They all worship him, except for Patience, the dairy maid, who is...
All's Well That Ends Well (version 2) - William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
A fairy tale with real life consequences, All's Well That Ends Well concerns a pooe physician's daughter who goes to Paris to heal the King and asks of him a husband; not himself, but the Count Rousillon, in whose house her good father had lived. He...
The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera) - Carlo GOLDONI
The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera) - Carlo GOLDONI
- Author: Carlo GOLDONI
- Genre: Comedy
Mirandolina runs an inn in Florence alone with only the help of her loyal employee Fabricius, and all of her guests are in love with her. The wealthy but only newly aristocratic Count D’Albafiorita and the impoverished but noble Marquis di...
Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Comedy
Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the Serbs. But she is distracted by the...
Twelfth Night (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Twelfth Night, or What You Wil is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are...
The Naturewoman - Upton Sinclair
The Naturewoman - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: Comedy
The Mastersons, a wealthy Bostonian family, await the arrival of their cousin Anna in the wake of her grandfather's death. Though born in Boston, Anna, who prefers the name Oceana, spent most of her life on a tropical island in the Pacific with her...
Rollo's Wild Oat - Clare Kummer
Rollo's Wild Oat - Clare Kummer
- Author: Clare Kummer
- Genre: Comedy
Rollo Webster, slightly eccentric, has a consuming ambition to play Hamlet. Escaping the restraining influences of his family, he spends his own money in engaging a company, hiring a theater and staging a production of the tragedy. His Ophelia is...
The Comedy of Errors (version 3) - William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Written sometime between 1592 and 1594, Comedy of Errors is certainly the exact recipe for a Shakespearean Comedy. Two sets of identical twin boys are born on the same day but separated when a freak tempest destroys their boat. Fast forward many...
The Merchant of Venice (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Perhaps the most controversial of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice tells the tale of a man, Bassanio, who has a crazy plan to woo the heiress, Portia, with money borrowed off an old Jewish money lender, Shylock. However, when the money...
The Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
The Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Comedy
In the town of Titipu, flirting is punishable by death on the command of the Mikado himself! But what happens when the Lord High Executioner is himself condemned to die? And what secret does the wandering minstrel Nanki-Poo hide, that the Mikado and...
The Pirates Of Penzance; Or The Slave Of Duty (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
The Pirates Of Penzance; Or The Slave Of Duty (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’s music and the interpretation of actors, the consummate silliness of Gilbert’s libretto entertains. The...
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements...
The Belle's Stratagem - Hannah Cowley
The Belle's Stratagem - Hannah Cowley
- Author: Hannah Cowley
- Genre: Comedy
The Beaux Stratagem, already in the LibriVox catalog (https://librivox.org/beaux-stratagem-by-george-farquhar/), was written by George Farquhar in 1707. The Belle's Stratagem, "a Ladies' response" to the Beaux Stratagem play with strong female...
The Intimate Strangers - Booth Tarkington
The Intimate Strangers - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Comedy
"Beginning with the girl of yesterday and a lawyer of uncertain age, stranded in a railway station, half starved and uncertain of the future, because a hurricane wrecked railway hopes on both the main and branch line, it carries the audience to the...