Plays - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The "Mind The Paint" Girl - Arthur Wing Pinero
The "Mind The Paint" Girl - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Another Pinero play from the early 1900s. With a social message about the effects of stardom on the star as well as those that love them. "I’m afraid there’s one thing finer than winning the woman you love and, when you’ve won her, being prepared to...
'Tis Pity She's a Whore - John Ford
'Tis Pity She's a Whore - John Ford
- Author: John Ford
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
One of the most shocking plays produced in England during the reign of Charles I, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore chronicles the disastrous results of an incestuous affair between fatalistic Italian siblings, Giovanni and Annabella. As suitors vie for...
One-Act Play Collection 004 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
This collection of twelve one-act dramas features plays by James Allen, John Kendrick Bangs, Gordon Bottomley, Charles Dickens, Lord Dunsany, Susan Glaspell, George Bernard Shaw, August Strindberg, Marion Craig Wentworth, and William Butler Yeats....
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Plays / Romance
An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doesn't get his own way. Secrets, intrigues, falling chandeliers! The Phantom of the Opera is here! (Summary by...
Every Man In His Humour - Ben Jonson
Every Man In His Humour - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Plays
Knowell, an old man - rumor says Shakespeare originally played this part - tries to spy upon the doings of his potentially wayward son. Meanwhile, Kitely, a merchant, worries so much about being cuckolded by his wife that perhaps it has to happen....
Widowers' Houses - George Bernard Shaw
Widowers' Houses - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Plays / Romance / Satire
This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences—as traditional Victorian theatre was expected to—but to raise awareness of social...
Manfred - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Manfred - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Plays
Manfred is a dramatic poem in three acts by Lord Byron, and possibly a self confessional work. A noble, Manfred, is haunted by the memory of some unspeakable crime. In seeking for forgetfulness and oblivion, he wanders between his castle and the...
Paul Jones - Alexandre Dumas
Paul Jones - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Plays / Biography & Autobiography
Dumas's play talks of American Naval Hero John Paul Jones's romantic entanglements and affairs of honor ashore in France. He later converted it to a novel. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: The Marquis D'Auray: Amy Gramour The Marchioness, his wife:...
The Constant Couple - George Farquhar
The Constant Couple - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays / Satire
George Farquhar, the author of this comedy, was the son of a clergyman in the north of Ireland. He was born in the year 1678, discovered an early taste for literature, and wrote poetic stanzas at ten years of age. In 1694 he was sent to Trinity...
Mr H - Charles Lamb
Mr H - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the characters are skilfully drawn and the sharp observations of contemporary fashion do much to divert the...
The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Lucas Cleeve is living in Venice with a widow, Mrs. Ebbsmith. His relatives do not accept this arrangement and come to intervene. Note that this is NOT a farce - the hypocrisy is not played for laughs. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Antonio Poppi,...
Henry V - William Shakespeare
Henry V - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
After the turmoil and uncertainty of Henry IV a new era appears to dawn for England with the accession of the eponymous Henry V. In this sunny pageant Chorus guides us along Henry's glittering carpet ride of success as the new king completes his...
Othello - William Shakespeare
Othello - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married couple fall prey to the machinations of Iago,...
The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays
The author was himself a recruiting officer, and possibly gathered all the materials for this play on the very spot where he has placed his scene—Shrewsbury. He has dedicated the piece "to all friends round the Wrekin," and has thanked the...
Gruach - Gordon Bottomley
Gruach - Gordon Bottomley
- Author: Gordon Bottomley
- Genre: Plays
Gordon Bottomley's verse drama in two scenes is a prequel to Shakespeare's Macbeth. He provides Lady Macbeth with a name - Gruach - and imagines her family life and how she meets Macbeth. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast Domhnal: Algy Pug Morag:...
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
- Author: Thomas Kyd
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or...
Dandy Dick - Arthur Wing Pinero
Dandy Dick - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
“Dandy Dick” was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatre—a series of plays which, besides giving playgoers a fresh source of laughter, and the English stage a new order of comic play, brought plentiful prosperity to...
One-Act Play Collection 006 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 006 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
This collection includes ten one-act plays by David Belasco, Arnold Bennett, Hereward Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Lord Dunsany, John Galsworthy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maurice Maeterlinck, Anna Bird Stewart, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Book...
One-Act Play Collection 012 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 012 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Here are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from a 1659 farce by Moliere to a 1896 play by Fuller with early LGBT content; a Gilbert play without Sullivan's music, and many other short gems to make you laugh, cry, think, or all three....
Sir Thomas More - Anthony Munday
Sir Thomas More - Anthony Munday
- Author: Anthony Munday
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Plays
Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives only in a single manuscript, now owned by the British Library. The manuscript is notable because three pages of...
Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
Iphigenia in Aulis is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. The Greek fleet is waiting at Aulis, Boeotia, with its ships ready to sail for Troy, but it is unable to depart due to a strange lack of wind. After consulting the seer Calchas,...
The Princess of Bagdad - Alexandre Dumas, fils
The Princess of Bagdad - Alexandre Dumas, fils
- Author: Alexandre Dumas fils
- Genre: Plays
Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of the proprieties of society? Are not women like you above all that? Was I to come delicately and hypocritically to offer your husband the sum he stood in need of? That is a course that would have...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Short Stories
LibriVox readers present the sixth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in...
Love and Intrigue - Friedrich Schiller
Love and Intrigue - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but both their fathers tell them to...
Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare
Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the philosopher of the same name, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works....
Pollyanna, the Glad Girl: A Four-Act Comedy - Catherine Chisholm Cushing
Pollyanna, the Glad Girl: A Four-Act Comedy - Catherine Chisholm Cushing
- Author: Catherine Chisholm Cushing
- Genre: Plays
Miss Polly Harrington is not at all pleased to be taking charge of her orphaned niece - but duty is duty, and that's how Pollyanna Whittier ended up in New England. Cheerful and ever-optimistic, Pollyanna sets out to infect the whole town with her...
Love is the Best Doctor - Molière
Love is the Best Doctor - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Four most fashionable doctors are called in by Sganarelle to cure his daughter, but instead they argue about everything and Sganarelle is driven to the streets where he finds a quack and his daughter's disguised lover. Moliere: "This is only a...
The Swan Song - Anton Chekhov
The Swan Song - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Plays
In 'The Swan Song' an aging actor reminisces about his life and the parts he's played. The piece takes a tragic look at ambition and the sacrifices that must be made in order to succeed. Chekhov’s ability to capture and explore human nature and...
Trelawny of the Wells - Arthur Wing Pinero
Trelawny of the Wells - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays
A theater, various actors and actresses, their admirers, financial backers, etc. The star Rose Trelawny wants to leave the stage for love, but it is not an easy thing to fit into conventional society after a life onstage. And not easy to go back to...
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural...
One-Act Play Collection 010 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Tenth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. MosadaNarrator: Availle Mosada: Sonia Ebremar: Tomas Peter Cola: Charlotte Duckett First Inquisitor: Anusha Iyer Second Inquisitor: Michele Eaton First Monk:...
The Tragedy of Mariam - Elizabeth Cary
The Tragedy of Mariam - Elizabeth Cary
- Author: Elizabeth Cary
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus to create a closet drama (written to be read, rather than performed live) about Mariam, the second wife of...
Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries. Dubbed "a dirty deed done in public" by one of its critics, the play focuses on (among other...
Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince of Thebes. After King Oedipus left his city and cursed the princes, Polynices and his brother, Eteocles,...
The Story of the Armada - Amice MACDONELL
The Story of the Armada - Amice MACDONELL
- Author: Amice MACDONELL
- Genre: Plays / Historical
It's the summer of 1588, and all is not well in England. Citizens are plotting to betray their queen for Spanish gold, and the dreaded Armada is coming closer and closer. It's up to Lord Burleigh and brave Sir Francis Drake to stop them, but will...
The Admirable Crichton - J. M. Barrie
The Admirable Crichton - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Plays / Satire
From the author of Peter Pan: Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton, his butler,...
King Lear (version 2) - William Shakespeare
King Lear (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
The Tragedy of King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The...
The School for Wives - Molière
The School for Wives - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom circumstances have given almost the...
Pandora's Box - Frank WEDEKIND
Pandora's Box - Frank WEDEKIND
- Author: Frank WEDEKIND
- Genre: Plays
Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust...
The Rover (Part One) - Aphra BEHN
The Rover (Part One) - Aphra BEHN
- Author: Aphra BEHN
- Genre: Plays
The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers, is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. The first part features multiple plot lines, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen in Naples at Carnival time. The "rover"...
