Comedy - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 3
Summer Boarders; or The Great Jewel Mystery - Josephine Van Tassel Bruorton
Summer Boarders; or The Great Jewel Mystery - Josephine Van Tassel Bruorton
- Author: Josephine Van Tassel Bruorton
- Genre: Comedy
A rich widow or two. An owner of 1000 acres of fine land. An heiress to the 1000 acres. Nefarious visitors of various sorts after the land, jewels, or whatever else they can get. Meddlers and neighbors. Faithful retainers and stalwart protectors....
Lightnin' - Winchell Smith
Lightnin' - Winchell Smith
- Author: Winchell Smith
- Genre: Comedy
A Western from 1918, that ran over a 1000 shows on Broadway and was made into movies twice. Lightnin' and his wife run a seedy hotel that straddles the Nevada-California state line, making for an interesting legal situation. When some out-of-town...
The Princess and the Butterfly - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Princess and the Butterfly - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
The English-born Princess Pannonia had spent the twenty years of her marriage isolated in the Prince's remote Hungarian castle. Now widowed, she returns to London to re-engage with former friends, all fearfully facing middle-age. Can romance be...
In Chancery - Arthur Wing Pinero
In Chancery - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
Subtitled "An Original Fantastic Comedy in Three Acts", this should be another enjoyable farce by Pinero, including memory loss, mistaken identity, crime and detection, romance, and many other of life's various complications. "Your husband?" "My...
Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts - A. A. MILNE
Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
Come, join us on a lovely April afternoon in Devonshire for a breezy frolic in comedy. Milne's light-hearted romance is sure to make you chuckle. (Lynette Caulkins) Cast List: Stage Directions: Larry Wilson Belinda Tremayne: Lynette Caulkins Delia...
The Rocket - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Rocket - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
Gentlemen out away from London, looking for wives. "I'm going to settle down, hearthrug and slippers and all that sort of thing." "So a lot of us have made up our minds to marry and retire from public life, and as I couldn't find any suitable partie...
The Torch-Bearers - George Kelly
The Torch-Bearers - George Kelly
- Author: George Kelly
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
"The cold, historical fact is that at about 9:15 o’clock on the evening of August 29th, 1922, five or six hundred average New Yorkers, two or three hundred friends of the management, and about fifty sophisticated first-nighters were in grave danger...
The Witch-Wife - Henry Spicer
The Witch-Wife - Henry Spicer
- Author: Henry Spicer
- Genre: Comedy
Matthew Hopkins, a renowned witch-hunter, has his sights set on the quiet village near Pendell Manor. However Cecile Howard and her friends are determined to put an end to his superstitious nonsense, put an end to his reign of terror, and teach him...
A Country Mouse - Arthur Law
A Country Mouse - Arthur Law
- Author: Arthur Law
- Genre: Comedy
You could be forgiven upon reading that title, not to mention auditing the opening scene, for thinking that this is a play of a simple country girl fallen among aristocratic Victorian-era swingers in the big city. But this Country Mouse is anything...
As You Like It (version 3) - William Shakespeare
As You Like It (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Long theorized to be one of Shakespeare's mid-career works, As You Like It remains an evergreen favorite for audiences and scholars alike for its sparkling characters, pastoral setting, gorgeous prose and entertaining storylines that converge in fun...
Sweet Lavender - Arthur Wing Pinero
Sweet Lavender - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
"Sweet Lavender" must be regarded as one of the most successful stage-plays of modern times, and there can be no question that it has proved so far the most popular of Mr. Pinero's works. Its representations may be counted by the thousand, and its...
Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money - Titus Maccius Plautus
Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection - all as relevant today as when this comedy was written 2200 years ago. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Luxury: Sonia Poverty: Availle Charmides, an Athenian merchant: ToddHW...
Wives on Strike - Lillian Sutton Pelée
Wives on Strike - Lillian Sutton Pelée
- Author: Lillian Sutton Pelée
- Genre: Comedy
The "Wives' Welfare Club" is meeting together so they may air grievances about their husbands and the inequality that women experience. During this meeting the wives decide to "go on Strike" and nominate Jane Spink to be the test case. Betty, who is...
Miles Gloriosus; The Braggart Captain - Titus Maccius Plautus
Miles Gloriosus; The Braggart Captain - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Comedy
Pleusicles loves Philocomasium, but she is kidnapped by Pyrgopolinices. Palaestrio, faithful servant to Pleusicles, witnesses this and goes to tell his master, but is captured by Pirates and ends up a servant to Pyrgopolinices as well. Palaestrio...
Adelphi: or, The Brothers - TERENCE
Adelphi: or, The Brothers - TERENCE
- Author: TERENCE
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
"Micio and Demea are two brothers of dissimilar tempers. Demea is married, and lives a country life, while his brother remains single, and resides in Athens." Things quickly get a bit messy with hushed-up debauchery, kidnapping/elopement/theft of a...
A Night Off; or A Page From Balzac - Augustin Daly
A Night Off; or A Page From Balzac - Augustin Daly
- Author: Augustin Daly
- Genre: Comedy
There are a number of subplots going on in this play. The Professor has unearthed a play that he wrote back in his University days. He has read it to his housekeeper while his wife was away at the expensive spa ... she disapproves of the theatre ......
Two Pastorals: an Heroic and a Comic - Molière
Two Pastorals: an Heroic and a Comic - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Comedy
Moliere, on the way to the Ballet of the Muses, a court festival, started to write a new Heroic Pastoral. "He chose for his subject a similar one to the history of Florizel and Perdita in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale…. The charm of his writing, the...
Engaged - W. S. Gilbert
Engaged - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
This comedy is by Gilbert on his own without Sullivan. "Listen to me. You love this girl?" "I love her sir, a'most as weel as I love mysel' !" "Then reflect how you are standing in the way of her prosperity." "Sir, I'm puir on pocket, but I've a...
Pseudolus: or, The Cheat - Titus Maccius Plautus
Pseudolus: or, The Cheat - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
About two dozen comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus have survived the years, with many of them ending up rewritten and recast by other playwrights such as Moliere. This one, Pseudolus, was part of the source for A Funny Thing Happened on the...
Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed - Titus Maccius Plautus
Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
"Antipho, a wealthy and jovial old gentleman of Athens, has two daughters, Pilumena and Pamphila. They are married to two brothers, Epignomus and Pamphilus, who, having run through their property in the company of idlers and Parasites, have, with...
Civilian Clothes - Thompson Buchanan
Civilian Clothes - Thompson Buchanan
- Author: Thompson Buchanan
- Genre: Comedy
What happens when wartime romance and talents encounter the post-war civilian world? "I'm going to take you to - " "Racine?" "If you're my wife you'll go with me to Hell!" "I'd rather go there than Racine." "Did anybody ever tell you that you were a...
A Bold Stroke for a Husband - Hannah Cowley
A Bold Stroke for a Husband - Hannah Cowley
- Author: Hannah Cowley
- Genre: Comedy
"Plays, where the scene is placed in a foreign country, particularly when that country is Spain, have a license to present certain improbabilities to the audience, without incurring the danger of having them called such; and the authoress, by the...
A Woman is a Weathercock - Nathan FIELD
A Woman is a Weathercock - Nathan FIELD
- Author: Nathan FIELD
- Genre: Comedy
A Woman is a Weathercock is the first play by the former child star of the Jacobean stage, Nathan Field. The action takes place over a single day in London. A number of suitors vie over Sir John Worldly's three daughters: Bellafront, Katherine, and...
Tom Cobb; or Fortune's Toy - W. S. Gilbert
Tom Cobb; or Fortune's Toy - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
Tom Cobb: "Why, there's a squalid old pauper idiot, a patient of his, who's got no name of his own, and Whipple [Doctor] christened him "Tom Cobb", because he says he's the ugliest old lunatic he ever saw and reminds him of me. And all the boys in...
It Pays To Advertise - Roi Cooper Megrue
It Pays To Advertise - Roi Cooper Megrue
- Author: Roi Cooper Megrue
- Genre: Comedy
An early screwball comedy, the plot revolves around a Soap Manufacturing Mogul's attempt to get his idle-rich son to make something of himself. This involves a Countess who speaks only French (or does she?); the son's sweetheart (or is she?); a...
Love for Love - William CONGREVE
Love for Love - William CONGREVE
- Author: William CONGREVE
- Genre: Comedy
"We have such a gallery, if not of great characters, at any rate of strongly-marked acting parts, as could not but ensure the success of the play... The plot was clear and simple, the action coherent and continuous, there is nothing to surprise us...
Amphitryon - Molière
Amphitryon - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
"The history of Amphitryon and Alcmene, or rather the myth of the birth of Hercules, is certainly very old, and is to be found in the literature of different nations." Under Moliere's touch, it becomes "One of the most charming and natural comedies...
The Freaks: An Idyll of Suburbia - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Freaks: An Idyll of Suburbia - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
When Mrs. Herrick's brother Charlie dies, he leaves his money in trust for members of the circus he used to own under the name of "Segantini's World Renowned Mammoth International Hippodrome and Museum of Living Marvels". When five of the...
The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English) - Pierre Beaumarchais
The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English) - Pierre Beaumarchais
- Author: Pierre Beaumarchais
- Genre: Comedy / Satire
This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its original official staging in 1784. Beaumarchais' play was the basis for Mozart's 1796 opera, and is a satire about...
Ann - Lechmere Worrall
Ann - Lechmere Worrall
- Author: Lechmere Worrall
- Genre: Comedy
Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex better and thereby characterize them better in his next book. While he attempts to follow their advice and marry...
Peace - Aristophanes
Peace - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is the same as in the former play—the intense desire of the less excitable and more moderate-minded citizens for...
Hay Fever - Noël Coward
Hay Fever - Noël Coward
- Author: Noël Coward
- Genre: Comedy
In this delightful farce/comedy of manners, the eccentric and theatrical Bliss family invites four hapless guests to their English country house for the weekend. Hijinks ensue. - Summary by WendyKatzHiller Cast List: Judith Bliss: WendyKatzHiller...
The Double Dealer - William CONGREVE
The Double Dealer - William CONGREVE
- Author: William CONGREVE
- Genre: Comedy
"This remarkable melodrama [The Double Dealer] - for a comedy it can scarcely be called... Is it possible to imagine a more inextricable tangle? No human brain can keep the threads clear for two consecutive minutes.... What wonder if audiences were...
Civil Service - Walter Ben Hare
Civil Service - Walter Ben Hare
- Author: Walter Ben Hare
- Genre: Comedy
Subtitled "An American Drama in Three Acts. A Play with a Punch." "A comedy drama of American life depicting the joys and sorrows, the heartaches and struggles and temptations of a small group of government employees working in a post office in a...
The Heir At Law - George Colman the Younger
The Heir At Law - George Colman the Younger
- Author: George Colman the Younger
- Genre: Comedy
Daniel Dowlas a chandler from Gosport, transmogrified into a baron, naturally enough demands, in what consists the mighty difference between drinking his tea out of a cup, or a saucer. He has the good sense to feel his insufficiency; and, aspiring...
Sunshine - Walter Ben Hare
Sunshine - Walter Ben Hare
- Author: Walter Ben Hare
- Genre: Comedy
Ye lords and ladies who have gathered here to see our little comedy of cheer, I bid you welcome to the Sunshine play, And hope 'twill drive your troubles all away. This delightful comedy is sure to brighten your day as we join an amusing group of...
Bacchides: or, The Twin Sisters - Titus Maccius Plautus
Bacchides: or, The Twin Sisters - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Twin sisters, separated at birth to different lands. Later, Mnesilochus falls in love with one of them, only to see his friend Pistoclerus apparently with her. Great complications abound. Eventually all is explained and everyone joins together to...
London Assurance - Dion Boucicault
London Assurance - Dion Boucicault
- Author: Dion Boucicault
- Genre: Comedy
This fast-paced Victorian farce is at heart a comedy of manners. Dion Bouciault’s witty dialogue ridicules the pretensions of society as the plot sets up the unpleasant initial situation of the aging, vain Sir Harcourt Courtly being set by a special...
The Emperor of the Moon - Aphra BEHN
The Emperor of the Moon - Aphra BEHN
- Author: Aphra BEHN
- Genre: Comedy
A Restoration farce by a successful woman playwright. "Doctor Baliardo, a Neapolitan philosopher, has so applied himself to the study of the Moon, and is enraptured to such an extent with the mysteries of that orb, that he has come steadfastly to...
