Plays - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 5
One-Act Play Collection 005 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by James M. Barrie, Hereward Carrington, Marjorie Benton Cooke, Alice Gerstenberg, Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, St. John Hankin, George Middleton, David Pinski, Frederik Pohl, and an...
Pippa Passes - Robert Browning
Pippa Passes - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Plays / Poetry
Pippa Passes was a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series.The author described the work as the first of a series of dramatic pieces. His original idea was...
The Imaginary Invalid - Molière
The Imaginary Invalid - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed in 1673 and was the last work he wrote. In an ironic twist of fate, Molière collapsed during his fourth...
The Duchess of Padua - Oscar Wilde
The Duchess of Padua - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays / Romance / Drama
Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know the true secret of Guido's birth. His plan of revenge goes awry, however, when he falls in love with his...
The Wasters - Arthur ADAMS
The Wasters - Arthur ADAMS
- Author: Arthur ADAMS
- Genre: Plays
Here we have a serious family drama by Australian playwright Arthur Adams about legacy and responsibilities, with some question about exactly who exactly the Wasters in society are. "No; you produce nothing, you spend everything; you do nothing, you...
The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton
- Author: Thomas Middleton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / *Non-fiction
The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is a fictionalized dramatization of the life of Mary Frith, known as "Moll Cutpurse", a woman who had gained a...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: General Fiction / Plays / Poetry
LibriVox readers present the eighth 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...
One-Act Play Collection 009 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 009 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Ninth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. A Dramatic Evening Narrator: April6090 Mr Thaddeus Perkins: Jeff Moon Mr Edward Bradley: Tomas Peter Mr Robert Yardsley: Tom Penn John Barlow: Mike Harris Mrs...
The Magnificent Lovers - Molière
The Magnificent Lovers - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
"The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in all he undertakes, wished to give his court an entertainment which should comprise all that the stage can furnish. To facilitate the execution of so vast an idea, and to link...
One-Act Play Collection 007 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Librivox’s One-Act Play Collection 007 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. Project BC: Michele Eaton Cast listings: Stepmother Narrator: Ruth Golding Cora Prout: Elizabeth Klett Adrian Prout: bala...
Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law - TERENCE
Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law - TERENCE
- Author: TERENCE
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. NOTE: the main plot elements in Hecyra are quite unacceptable today: Pamphilus has just married a woman he does not recognize that he had earlier raped in a drunken...
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form - Augusta STEVENSON
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form - Augusta STEVENSON
- Author: Augusta STEVENSON
- Genre: Plays / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Anderson, and more authors, turned into short children's plays by Augusta Stevenson. This collection has seventeen plays in which characters come together and form a classic...
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place within a single day....
Comic Tragedies - Louisa May Alcott
Comic Tragedies - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Plays
Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember the elaborate plays which the March sisters loved to perform. This volume, published after Alcott's death, is a compilation of the real plays written by her and her sisters, which were...
One-Act Play Collection 011 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 011 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Here are 10 one act plays offered by various groups of Librivox readers. From Ancient India to the Far Future, from the palaces of royalty to the servants hall, from comedy to tragedy, from deeply philosophical to farcically entertaining. Enjoy!...
Miss Civilization - Richard Harding Davis
Miss Civilization - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Comedy
Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a young woman who matches wits with three burglars attempting to rob her house. This recording was made in Chicago at the LibriVox World Gathering in May 2007. Cast: Kristin Hughes Betsie Bush...
The Physician In Spite of Himself - Molière
The Physician In Spite of Himself - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
The Physician In Spite of Himself … is written in a most unbounded spirit of mirth, the matrimonial breezes wafting a certain amount of refreshing coolness throughout it all. The way in which Sganarelle is dubbed, or rather drubbed a doctor, is...
The School for Husbands - Molière
The School for Husbands - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom circumstances have given almost the...
The Rivals - Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
The Rivals - Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
- Author: Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable people went there to "take the waters", which were believed to have healing properties. The plot centres on the...
The Inconstant - George Farquhar
The Inconstant - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Subtitled "The Way to Win Him:, this play is placed in Paris - a change from many others of Farquhar's plays which used English settings - though still presented to the same English audience. "This comedy ... had a reception, on the first night of...
