Drama - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
John Gabriel Borkman - Henrik Ibsen
John Gabriel Borkman - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Drama
John Gabriel Borkman is the penultimate play of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, written in 1896. The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a bank manager to illegally...
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) - Hyakuzō KURATA
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) - Hyakuzō KURATA
- Author: Hyakuzō KURATA
- Genre: Drama / Modern / Other religions
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" ("Shukke to sono deshi"). This stage play is based...
Mary Tudor - Victor HUGO
Mary Tudor - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Drama
If Queen Mary I of England wants something, you'd better not try and stop her, or else you might soon find yourself without a head! When this hot-headed young Royal's new favourite courtier, an Italian gentleman named Fabiano Fabiani who has already...
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) - Karel ČAPEK
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) - Karel ČAPEK
- Author: Karel ČAPEK
- Genre: Drama
Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations...
The Return of Peter Grimm - David BELASCO
The Return of Peter Grimm - David BELASCO
- Author: David BELASCO
- Genre: Drama
"Mr. Belasco has written the following account of "Peter's" evolution: [ ] The play, "The Return of Peter Grimm," is an expression in dramatic form of my ideas on a subject which I have pondered over since boyhood: "Can the dead come back?" Peter...
Pericles, Prince of Tyre - William Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Drama
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio. Modern editors...
Caliban by the Yellow Sands - Percy MACKAYE
Caliban by the Yellow Sands - Percy MACKAYE
- Author: Percy MACKAYE
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Drama
Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized from a strange magician named Prospero and his young daughter, Miranda. Through fantastic visions (including...
There are Crimes and Crimes - August Strindberg
There are Crimes and Crimes - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: Drama
Maurice, a playwright on the brink of success, feels so confident in his professional future he proposes to Jeanne, his mistress. However, upon meeting Henriette, his friend's mistress, he gets swept away by his overwhelming passion for her. The...
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Plays / Drama
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been...
Exiles - James JOYCE
Exiles - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Plays / Drama
Exiles is a play by James Joyce, who is principally remembered for his novels. It was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970, when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre....
Hindle Wakes - Stanley Houghton
Hindle Wakes - Stanley Houghton
- Author: Stanley Houghton
- Genre: Drama
Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in Blackpool and the two go off for what they believe to be secret fling in Llandudno. But after the death of...
The Master Builder - Henrik Ibsen
The Master Builder - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, first published in 1892, is about architect Halvard Solness, who despite personal tragedy (including the death of his two sons) has risen to the top of his profession. He has succeeded partly through ruthless...
Octavius - Marcus Minucius Felix
Octavius - Marcus Minucius Felix
- Author: Marcus Minucius Felix
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Drama / Ancient
This ancient Roman dialogue plays out as a religious debate between the Christian lawyer Octavius, and his close friend, a skeptical pagan named Caecilius. Caecilius is relatively agnostic, expressing skepticism towards both aspects of traditional...
Jane Shore: A Tragedy - Nicholas Rowe
Jane Shore: A Tragedy - Nicholas Rowe
- Author: Nicholas Rowe
- Genre: Drama
Covering some of the plot of Shakespeare's Richard III, Jane Shore focuses on the mistress of the late Edward IV, also known as "The White Queen". In this short tragedy, Jane tries to thwart Richard's rise to power while experiencing love, betrayal,...
Life is a Dream - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Life is a Dream - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Genre: Drama
Of all Calderon's works, "Life is a Dream" may be regarded as the most universal in its theme. It seeks to teach a lesson that may be learned from the philosophers and religious thinkers of many ages—that the world of our senses is a mere shadow,...
Broken Hearts - W. S. Gilbert
Broken Hearts - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Drama
Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame also wrote non-musical plays without Sullivan as a partner. Here is a dramatic play far afield from the comedy musicals we often think of when we hear Gilbert's name: Prince Florian of Spain arrives on The Island...
Iris - Arthur Wing Pinero
Iris - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Drama
Left a widow 5 years ago at age 21, Iris Bellamy is shackled by terms of her husband's will that would leave her penniless if she remarries. Of course, "if she married a rich man, her interest in her late husband's estate would be no longer...
The Great Galeoto - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
The Great Galeoto - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
- Author: José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
- Genre: Drama
"What touches us more closely is Echegaray's manipulation of the modern conscience, and its illimitable scope for reflection, for conflict, and the many-sided drama of temptation.... Not even Tolstoi, with all that delicacy and keenness of the...
Saint Joan: Preface - George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan: Preface - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Drama / Tragedy
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play reflects Shaw's belief that the people involved in...
The Noble Heart - George Henry Lewes
The Noble Heart - George Henry Lewes
- Author: George Henry Lewes
- Genre: Drama
This Victorian melodrama, written by G.H. Lewes, common law husband of novelist George Eliot (Marian Evans), featured a scandalous love triangle. The scene is set in 16th century Spain. The main character is Don Gomez del la Vega, a nobleman in...
Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith - W. S. Gilbert
Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Drama
A drama from the Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. Pursued by the Parliamentary Army after the Battle of Worcester, some Royalist soldiers take cover in Dan'l Druce's hut on the Norfolk Coast until they can escape. An event with long shadows that...
Alexander the Great - Jean Racine
Alexander the Great - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Drama
Racine caused furour in the French theater community with his second play, Alexander the Great, when "The sensitive poet seems to have been disgusted by the manner in which it was being acted; for, a fortnight after it had been put on the boards at...
The First Part of King Henry IV (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The First Part of King Henry IV (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Drama
After the events of Richard II , wherein the conceited King Richard II is dethroned and assassinated, Shakespeare’s Henriad continues apace with this multifaceted work that details the reign of Richard’s illegitimate successor, King Henry IV. In...
The Purgatory of St. Patrick - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
The Purgatory of St. Patrick - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Genre: Drama
This is a "mystical drama founded on the lives of Saints. Mr. Ticknor prefers it to the more celebrated 'Devotion of the Cross,' and says that it 'is commonly ranked among the best religious plays of the Spanish theatre in the seventeenth century.'...
Touch and Go - D. H. Lawrence
Touch and Go - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Drama
A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They have decided that they have had enough of the way they are treated and decide to go on strike. A battle of wills ensues. Summary by Michele Eaton Cast List Narrator: Scarbo...
Armand; or The Peer and The Peasant - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Armand; or The Peer and The Peasant - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Drama
Although almost completely obscure today, this romantic melodrama was arguably a bigger hit for actress/playwright Anna Cora Mowatt than her theatre history-making comedy “Fashion” (1845.) Wisely cashing in on the craze for settings and characters...
Theft - Jack London
Theft - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / Drama
This is a political play which is set in Washington DC. Howard Knox is a congressman and believes that there are corrupt practices going on at the firm of a very wealthy industrialist. Knox is being helped by the industrialists daughter who is...
The Cradle Song - Gregorio Martínez Sierra
The Cradle Song - Gregorio Martínez Sierra
- Author: Gregorio Martínez Sierra
- Genre: Drama
"In 1911 [Martinez Sierra and his wife/co-author Maria] achieved a definitive and permanent triumph with the production of The Cradle Song.... The Cradle Song is a reminiscence of Maria's youth in Carabanchel, a town in which her father was convent...
The Vortex - Noël Coward
The Vortex - Noël Coward
- Author: Noël Coward
- Genre: Plays / Drama
Noel Coward explores the darker side of the roaring twenties in this early play. It focuses on an ageing beauty who uses affairs with younger men to keep her feeling relevant, and her son (originally played by Coward himself) who is back from Paris...
The Birth of Merlin: The Childe Hath Found His Father - William Shakespeare
The Birth of Merlin: The Childe Hath Found His Father - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Drama
Merlin. King Arthur. War betwixt British and Saxons. Uther Pendragon. Collapsing castle foundations, Magicians and spirits, and fighting dragons and a blazing comet. Good entertaining stuff. But is it Shakespeare? The 1662 first printed edition of...
