Plays - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
The Lady of the Lake - Edmund John EYRE
The Lady of the Lake - Edmund John EYRE
- Author: Edmund John EYRE
- Genre: Plays / Romance
At the request of Mr. Siddons, Manager and Patentee of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, the following Performance was composed. I am very sensible that Mr. Scott’s Poem of “The Lady of the Lake” afforded material for a much superior Drama than the one...
Faust II - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust II - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Plays
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Johann Wolfgang von...
Sir Harry Wildair - George Farquhar
Sir Harry Wildair - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
This sequel to the Jubilee [The Constant Couple, or A Trip to the Jubilee] appeared at Drury Lane in 1701, and was almost as popular as its predecessor. The smartness of the dialogue, the witty comment upon the fashions of the hour, the movement of...
Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein
Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein
- Author: Gertrude Stein
- Genre: General Fiction / Plays / Poetry
Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or "portraits", were designed to evoke "the excitingness of pure being"...
Ivanov - Anton Chekhov
Ivanov - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Plays / Comedy / Tragedy
Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her family after converting from Judaism, is dying of tuberculosis. He is deeply in debt. And his best friend’s...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Poetry
William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres - tragedy, comedy, romance, &c - that there is always at least one monologue...
Misalliance - George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Plays
Misalliance, a 1910 play by George Bernard Shaw, is an ironic examination of the romantic entanglements of a varied group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend. Most of the romantic interest centers on the host's...
The Tinker's Wedding - John Millington SYNGE
The Tinker's Wedding - John Millington SYNGE
- Author: John Millington SYNGE
- Genre: Plays
The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge. The author's only comedy, it is set on a roadside near a chapel in rural Ireland. (summary by Wikipedia) Cast: Michael Byrne: mb Mary Byrne: Elizabeth Klett Sarah Casey:...
Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Plays / Poetry
Peer is a dreamer, liar, excellent storyteller and an irresponsible person who avoids all problems. He uses and discards women and looks towards the grandiose, the unattainable. Despite of this, one can't help but like and feel sorry for Peer, as it...
Ghosts (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by Kristingj) Cast: Mrs. Helen Alving, widow of Captain Alving: Rhonda Federman Oswald Alving, her son, a...
Philoctetes - Sophocles
Philoctetes - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island to persuade Philoctetes to come with them to Troy. A prophet has foreseen that the Greeks will need...
Psyche - Molière
Psyche - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Plays
This is a very different Moliere, not the usual satire of everyday life. It is instead a classical tale based on the ancient story of Psyche and Cupid, and was performed for Louis XIV with ballet interludes to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (which we...
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- Genre: Plays
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. Pirandello, in the preface to the play, says that whenever a reader opens Dante’s Inferno,...
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays
Aubrey Tanqueray marries a woman with a past which he believes will not matter in society. "I know you think me a fool, Cayley—you needn't infer that I'm a coward into the bargain. No! I know what I'm doing, and I do it deliberately, defiantly. I'm...
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the range of Prospero's powers. Will he seek revenge, or reconcilement?...
The Beaux Stratagem - George Farquhar
The Beaux Stratagem - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
Two gentlemen of broken fortune, disguised as master and servant, and thinking that a good dowry split both ways would solve their problems; some cludgy highwaymen and their confederates; foxy inn-keeper and saucy daughter; a country home with a...
The Funeral: or Grief A-La-Mode - Richard STEELE
The Funeral: or Grief A-La-Mode - Richard STEELE
- Author: Richard STEELE
- Genre: Plays
The Funeral: or, Grief à-la-Mode, a Comedy, was written in the summer of 1701, and given to Christopher Rich, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in October. Soon afterwards it was acted, and it was published by Jacob Tonson between December 18 and...
Henry VI, Part 1 - William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
Henry VI, Part 1 or The First Part of Henry the Sixth (often written as 1 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas 2 Henry VI deals...
The Impostures of Scapin - Molière
The Impostures of Scapin - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays
Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can make people do anything. And yet sometimes he acts in the cause of good. Here he attempts to help out some secret lovers whose parents would prefer they don't marry. - Summary by...
Henry VIII - William Shakespeare
Henry VIII - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the giant monarch storms through his midlife crisis, disposing of the faithful Katharine of Aragon and starting a...
The Reign of King Edward the Third - William Shakespeare
The Reign of King Edward the Third - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least partly written by William Shakespeare, a view that Shakespeare scholars have increasingly endorsed. The rest...
Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 002 - William Shakespeare
Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 002 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
This is the second LibriVox collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for this collection is "Women's Worlds," as the excerpts are all scenes between female characters. (Summary by...
An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Plays
A small coastal town in Norway is experiencing an economic boom from its newly found hot springs. When Dr. Thomas Stockmann finds that the waters are contaminated and dangerous, the people refuse to accept his statement, and Dr. Stockmann's friends...
The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
- Author: John Webster
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
John Webster's bloody Jacobean tragedy exposes the decadence of the Italian court. The virtuous Duchess of Malfi, a young widow, secretly marries her steward Antonio, and is subsequently persecuted by her brothers: the sexually obsessed and...
Doctor Johnson: A Play - A. Edward NEWTON
Doctor Johnson: A Play - A. Edward NEWTON
- Author: A. Edward NEWTON
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Plays
The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination can read this play with pleasure; with two teaspoonsful, I will not be responsible for results. He, or she, may be...
Andria: or, The Fair Andrian - TERENCE
Andria: or, The Fair Andrian - TERENCE
- Author: TERENCE
- Genre: Plays
Pamphilus wants to marry a woman different than his father has chosen for him. Add in paternal scheming, death bed promises, shipwreck, and other complications, and comedy ensues. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Simo, an aged Athenian: Aaron White...
Love and a Bottle - George Farquhar
Love and a Bottle - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Plays
This play was produced in 1698 at Drury Lane Theatre. From the bustle of its plot, the variety of its incidents, and the sustained humour of its dialogue, it met with so favourable a reception that Farquhar henceforth devoted himself to writing for...
Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the prophecy that predicted he would kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves...
Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the...
The Benefit of the Doubt - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Benefit of the Doubt - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays
The plot resolves around a young woman being cited in court as "The Other Woman" in a divorce case, and how her family reacts to it. Says her uncle: I shall go out; people shall see me walking boldly through the streets: Portland Place—Regent...
Quality Street - J. M. Barrie
Quality Street - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Plays
Two sisters living on Quality Street set up and run a school for children after the local doctor heads off to fight Napoleon. Ten years later he returns, thinking that all the adventures have been his, and that the old life in Quality Street has...
Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates - Charles S. BROOKS
Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates - Charles S. BROOKS
- Author: Charles S. BROOKS
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Plays
We had hoped that our drama's scene might lie on a pirate ship at sea. We had wished for a swaying mast, full-set with canvas—a typhoon to smother our stage in wind. We had hoped to walk a victim off the plank, with the sea roaring in the wings. But...
Robin Hood - Amice MACDONELL
Robin Hood - Amice MACDONELL
- Author: Amice MACDONELL
- Genre: Plays / Historical
One May Day, Robin Hood and his Merry Men sit in Sherwood Forest, waiting for a traveller to share their dinner. Enter a distraught Knight with his fair daughter Marian, who owe money to the Sheriff of Nottingham, and have not the means by which to...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 05 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 05 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
LibriVox readers present the fifth 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...
Lovers' Vows - Elizabeth INCHBALD
Lovers' Vows - Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Author: Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Genre: Plays / Romance
Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child...
Mrs. Warren's Profession - George Bernard Shaw
Mrs. Warren's Profession - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Plays
The story centers on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren, a rich woman, described by the author as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman" and her daughter, Vivie. Mrs Warren is a middle-aged woman whose...
Prometheus Bound (Buckley Translation) - Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound (Buckley Translation) - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Plays
"Prometheus Bound" is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupiter has turned against Prometheus for protecting mankind and has ordered him to be chained to a rock. But Prometheus is...
A Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers - Charles MACKLIN
A Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers - Charles MACKLIN
- Author: Charles MACKLIN
- Genre: Plays / Satire
This "Afterpiece" - a short play to follow a main production - was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard's five-act comedy le Legetaire Universel (1707), which is itself a composite of Italian comedy with echoes of Molière, moving from...
Favourite Scenes From Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
Favourite Scenes From Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
In 2012, the World Shakespeare Festival surveyed Britons as to their favourite plays by Shakespeare. This collection consists of 21 scenes from the most popular plays written by arguably the greatest writer in the English language, possibly any...
Mary Stuart - Friedrich Schiller
Mary Stuart - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her potential claim on the English throne. The action of the play revolves around an attempt to rescue Mary from...
