Comedy - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
The Hobby-Horse - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Hobby-Horse - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
A man's wife is caught up in Philanthropy, generously supporting all sorts of good causes. But that does not include her husband's interests in "the Turf or the Stable - no feeling except one of positive distaste." So what is he to do? How about...
The Busie Body - Susanna Centlivre
The Busie Body - Susanna Centlivre
- Author: Susanna Centlivre
- Genre: Comedy
A rich heiress pretending to be in love with her guardian, but with several other suitors. A jealous merchant from Spain with a beautiful but cloistered daughter. A Busy Body who tries to know everybody else's business. Conniving servants. Plot...
The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret - Susanna Centlivre
The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret - Susanna Centlivre
- Author: Susanna Centlivre
- Genre: Comedy
Donna Isabella does not want to marry Don Guzman, her father's choice. Donna Violante's father wants her to become a nun. Isabella is attacked on the street and carried insensible into Violante's house. What will happen next? Confidential letters,...
A Woman's Way - Thompson Buchanan
A Woman's Way - Thompson Buchanan
- Author: Thompson Buchanan
- Genre: Comedy
"A Woman's Way" belongs to a class of comedy curiously rare on our native stage in recent seasons, the comedy of smart people, with a flavor of character study to give it dignity." "In this comedy, it is "inevitable" that the wife and the other...
The Gondoliers - W. S. Gilbert
The Gondoliers - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
In typical Gilbert and Sullivan "Topsy Turvy" style, the King of Barataria has gone missing! He was stolen as a baby and raised in secrecy as one of two gondoliers (nobody knows which) and his wife would like very much to know where he is! The Grand...
Seven Keys to Baldpate (Play) - George M. Cohan
Seven Keys to Baldpate (Play) - George M. Cohan
- Author: George M. Cohan
- Genre: Comedy
Betting that he can write 10,000 words in 24 hours, a novelist locks himself into a snowbound summer resort on Baldpate Mountain with what he believes is the one and only key to Baldpate Inn. Yet his work is interrupted by a number of colorful...
The Romancers - Edmond Rostand
The Romancers - Edmond Rostand
- Author: Edmond Rostand
- Genre: Comedy
By the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, this comic-romance formed the basis for the long-running 1960's musical "The Fantasticks". - Summary by WendyKatzHiller Persons in the Play: Sylvette: Jenn Broda Percinet: Joanna Michal Hoyt Straforel: Larry...
Mucedorus - William Shakespeare
Mucedorus - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The 1610 edition says it is by Shakespeare, and the play was in a volume of Shakespeare in the library of Charles the Second. But, well, likely not actually a Shakespeare.... Perhaps by Robert Green (1558 - 1592) This play is mentioned as being...
Fanny and the Servant Problem - Jerome K. Jerome
Fanny and the Servant Problem - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Comedy
"It is so sad when relations don't get on together." "Sadder still when they think they've got a right to trample on you, just because you happen to be an orphan and - I don't want to talk about my relations. I want to forget them. I stood them for...
The Sorcerer - W. S. Gilbert
The Sorcerer - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
Alexis Pointdextre gets his family sorcerer to brew up a love potion. But what happens when it gets out of control? This two act operetta was a success and convinced Gilbert and Sullivan (sorry - no music in our recording of this) to go ahead and...
Princess of Elis - Molière
Princess of Elis - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
In the month of May 1664, Louis XIV entertained the Queen-mother, Anne of Austria, and his own wife , Maria Theresa, with a brilliant and sumptuous fete at Versailles.... The second day was distinguished by the representation of The Pricess of Elis...
The Fairy Lady - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
The Fairy Lady - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Genre: Comedy
Don Manuel and Cosmo are visiting town to stay with Don Manuel's friend Don John de Toledo for the young Prince's christening, when suddenly a a veiled lady begs for their aid and protection. "My honour and my life are forfeit if I am overtaken or...
Sweethearts (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
Sweethearts (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
Subtitled "An Original Dramatic Contrast", the play presents two neighbors, Harry and Jenny, parting in Act 1 and then meeting again 30 years later in Act 2 after Harry's return from India. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Mr Harry Spreadbrow: Rob...
The Money-Spinner - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Money-Spinner - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
When his younger brother incurs a large betting debt, what could be easier than for a man to borrow the money to save him from the factory he runs while his employers are away. Whoops; his employers are coming back before he has repaid the money....
One Fool Makes Many - Antonio de Solís
One Fool Makes Many - Antonio de Solís
- Author: Antonio de Solís
- Genre: Comedy
"I will discuss this matter in an allegory: ... There was once upon a time a man, and he had a sister; and this said sister, she had a brother; and so this sister fell in love with another brother, and he had another sister; and one day what should...
Miss Buzby's Boarders - Arthur Lewis Tubbs
Miss Buzby's Boarders - Arthur Lewis Tubbs
- Author: Arthur Lewis Tubbs
- Genre: Comedy
Who knows what might be going on in Miss Buzby's boarding house, where she accepts (shudder!) theatrical types? - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Jerome Townsend, a lover somewhat in the background: Tommy Hersant Felix Marden, who is not afraid to come...
Phormio; or, The Scheming Parasite - TERENCE
Phormio; or, The Scheming Parasite - TERENCE
- Author: TERENCE
- Genre: Comedy
"Chremes and Demipho are two aged Athenians, brothers. Nausistrata, the wife of Chremes, is a wealthy woman, possessed of large estates in the island of Lemnos. Chremes, who goes thither yearly to receive the rents, meets with a poor woman there,...
