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The Bourgeois Gentleman - Molière
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The Bourgeois Gentleman - Molière
  • Author: Molière
  • Genre: Plays / Satire
The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, he shall truly become one. This enables Moliere to satire both the pretentious middle class and the snobbish...
The Gay Lord Quex - Arthur Wing Pinero
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The Gay Lord Quex - Arthur Wing Pinero
Lord Quex, after a life of philandering, has decided to reform and marry. But he is not believed, particularly by the guardian of his intended. The play shows the difficulties in shaking a discreditable past - and how it is different for a male Lord...
The Misanthrope - Molière
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The Misanthrope - Molière
  • Author: Molière
  • Genre: Plays / Satire
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well rounded, and who knows - Alceste might actually grow and change throughout the...
Salome - Oscar Wilde
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Salome - Oscar Wilde
The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to...
Magna Carta - Amice MACDONELL
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Magna Carta - Amice MACDONELL
A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line "now is justice bought and sold" in the Prologue. - Summary by Beth Thomas Narrator: Denny Sayers King John: Rob Board Stephen Langton, Archbishop...
The Seagull - Anton Chekhov
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The Seagull - Anton Chekhov
The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic...
For Christ and the Church (dramatic reading) - Charles Monroe SHELDON
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For Christ and the Church (dramatic reading) - Charles Monroe SHELDON
Rev. Mark Spencer is about to give up on writing his sermon one Saturday night when the Devil comes to him and tries to discourage him by reminding him how few of the people who have pledged themselves to make their motto, 'For Christ and the...
The New York Idea - Langdon MITCHELL
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The New York Idea - Langdon MITCHELL
I find it very hard to classify "The New York Idea" under any of the established rubrics. It is rather too extravagant to rank as a comedy; it is much too serious in its purport, too searching in its character-delineation and too thoughtful in its...
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
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Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
  • Author: Henrik Ibsen
  • Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Plays
Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic General, has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an aspiring young academic, reliable but not...
Every Man Out of His Humour - Ben Jonson
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Every Man Out of His Humour - Ben Jonson
Every Man Out of His Humour followed Jonson's play Every Man In His Humour. "This play as a fabric of plot is a very slight affair; but as a satirical picture of the manners of the time, proceeding by means of vivid caricature, couched in witty and...
Mrs. Pretty and The Premier - Arthur ADAMS
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Mrs. Pretty and The Premier - Arthur ADAMS
The Premier has decided that being married would be good for his image. He asks his stenographer for advice: (Premier) Good. Just jot me down a precis of the points made by your fifteen admirers when proposing - the points that specially appealed to...
The Love-Tiff - Molière
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The Love-Tiff - Molière
  • Author: Molière
  • Genre: Plays / Satire
"The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from which there is no visible disentangling. The conversation between Valère and Ascanio in man's clothes, the mutual...
A Little Bit of Fluff - Walter W. ELLIS
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A Little Bit of Fluff - Walter W. ELLIS
According to the website www.stagebeauty.net, this is the 5th longest running play ever, with over 1200 original performances. Like Charley's Aunt (number 2 on the list and released by Librivox earlier in 2018), this also is a farce. An insurance...
The Twin-Rivals - George Farquhar
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The Twin-Rivals - George Farquhar
"This comedy was produced at Drury Lane on December 14, 1702. It is the most accurate of all Farquhar's productions. The plot, though improbable, is well constructed and sustained, the dialogue lively and entertaining, whilst the characters of the...
Mary Broome - Allan MONKHOUSE
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Mary Broome - Allan MONKHOUSE
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values. (Summary by wildemoose) Cast:...
The Dance of Death - August Strindberg
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The Dance of Death - August Strindberg
The Dance of Death is a play in two parts by the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, written in 1900. It depicts the dissolution of a marriage between Edgar, an artillery captain, and Alice, a former actress. Increasingly isolated in their...
The Sorrows of a Show Girl - Kenneth McGaffey
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The Sorrows of a Show Girl - Kenneth McGaffey
Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the unpredictable theatrical industry and the Great White Way, the lights and glamour of Broadway. "In order to set...
Don Juan - Lorenzo DA PONTE
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Don Juan - Lorenzo DA PONTE
Don Juan (Spanish), Don Giovanni (Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine. Although the various iterations of the Don Juan myth show some variation, the basic story remains the same. Don Juan is portrayed as a wealthy, seductive libertine who...
The Cabinet Minister - Arthur Wing Pinero
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The Cabinet Minister - Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exaggerates their sentiments and magnifies their foibles. In this light it is permitted to this class of play, not...
The Way of the World - William CONGREVE
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The Way of the World - William CONGREVE
The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as being one of the best Restoration comedies written and is still performed...
The Seats of The Mighty - Gilbert Parker
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The Seats of The Mighty - Gilbert Parker
For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously...
Charley's Aunt - Brandon THOMAS
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Charley's Aunt - Brandon THOMAS
The girlfriends are coming to visit the chaps at college, but of course they can't stay unless there is a proper chaperone. So what could be more reasonable that getting a friend from the Drama Club to dress up and pretend to be Charley's Aunt?...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Jessie Braham WHITE
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Jessie Braham WHITE
The classic story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs, now in play form! The play was adapted by Jessie Braham White (the pen name of Winthrop Ames), from the Grimm tale. - Summary by RachelCast List: Narrator: Zach K. Princess Snow White: Kristin...
Earth Spirit - Frank WEDEKIND
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Earth Spirit - Frank WEDEKIND
Earth Spirit (1895) (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the second is Pandora's Box [1904]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed"....
Cinderella - George CALDERON
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Cinderella - George CALDERON
If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only it had occurred to him to write one." Set on a "bleak and cheerless heath overlooking the fjord" we meet...
The Tender Husband: or The Accomplished Fools - Richard STEELE
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The Tender Husband: or The Accomplished Fools - Richard STEELE
"The Tender Husband is, as a whole, very amusing; but unfortunately a second plot—alluded to in the title—is woven into the story which gives to the play its interest; and as this account of the manner in which the "tender husband" tries the...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09 - William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09 - William Shakespeare
LibriVox readers present the ninth 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...
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
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Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
  • Author: Sophocles
  • Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction / Plays
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology,...
George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband - Molière
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George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband - Molière
  • Author: Molière
  • Genre: Plays / Satire
"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favorite gardens of Versailles. Moliere's comedy, George Dandin, formed the chief entertainment." The plot: A wife comes...
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
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A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It looks in particular at English upper class...
The Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov
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The Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and...
Don Juan In Hell - George Bernard Shaw
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Don Juan In Hell - George Bernard Shaw
Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2) from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. It is often performed as a stand-alone play. In it, three characters from Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Don Juan, Dona Ana, and the statue of the Commendatore,...
The Bores - Molière
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The Bores - Molière
  • Author: Molière
  • Genre: Plays / Satire
Moliere: "Never was any Dramatic performance so hurried as this; and it is a thing, I believe, quite new, to have a comedy planned, finished, got up, and played in a fortnight. I do not say this to boast of an impromptu, or to pretend to any...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 04 - William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 04 - William Shakespeare
LibriVox readers present the fourth 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...
Sweethearts - W. S. Gilbert
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Sweethearts - W. S. Gilbert
Sweethearts is a comic play billed as a "dramatic contrast" in two acts by W. S. Gilbert. The play tells a sentimental and ironic story of the differing recollections of a man and a woman about their last meeting together before being separated and...
Countess Julie - August Strindberg
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Countess Julie - August Strindberg
August Strindberg's naturalistic one-act drama has only three characters: Julie, a passionate young noblewoman; Jean, her father's ambitious valet; and Kristin, the cook, who is also Jean's fiancee. The play is set on Midsummer Eve, when everyone is...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 13 - William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 13 - William Shakespeare
This is the thirteenth collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Our readers have chosen their favourite monologues from Shakespeare's famous comedies, tragedies, and histories, covering a wide range of topics, and emotions. - Summary by...
Vera; or the Nihilists - Oscar Wilde
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Vera; or the Nihilists - Oscar Wilde
Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the story of Vera Zasulich. It was the first play that Wilde wrote. It was produced in the United Kingdom in 1880, and in New York...
The Blunderer, or The Counterplots - Molière
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The Blunderer, or The Counterplots - Molière
  • Author: Molière
  • Genre: Plays / Satire
A very early Moliere. From the Translator: "In this piece the plot is carried on ... by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first original personage Molière has created; he is not a mere imitation of the valets of the Italian or classical comedy; he...
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy - G. K. Chesterton
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Magic: A Fantastic Comedy - G. K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw goaded the already successful essayist and novelist Chesterton into trying his hand at a play, with this 1913 result. The play examines the powers and mysteries of faith, belief, religion, and of course, magic - a mixture that...
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