Plays

Earth Spirit

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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…

The School for Husbands

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Molière


In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …

The Devil is an Ass

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Ben Jonson


An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at the Sq…

Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 002

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William Shakespeare


This is the second LibriVox collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for…

A Kiss for Cinderella

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J. M. Barrie


This play does have Cinderella and a Godmother, Royalty, and glass slippers, but it takes place in WW1 and is certainly not your typical fai…

The Sorrows of a Show Girl

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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 un…

The Tragedy of Mariam

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Elizabeth Cary


The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus …

Rosmersholm

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Henrik Ibsen


Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwor…

One-Act Play Collection 003

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Various


This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by Edward Goodman, Alice Gerstenberg, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Anton Chekhov, F…

Adventskalender 2014

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. bis 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme über Weihnachten, den …

The Nō Plays of Japan

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Varioustranslated Byarthur Waley


Noh (Nō), or Nogaku—derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent"—is a major form of classical Japanese mu…

Simultan Krippenspiel (Concert bruitiste)

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Hugo Ball


Dies ist ein ungewöhnliches dadaistisches Krippenspiel, wobei die Weihnachtsgeschichte fast nur mit Hilfe von Lauten und Geräusche…

If I Had a Father

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George MacDonald


Arthur Gervaise, a London sculptor, learns too late of his love for a woman, while his absentee father secretly tries to serve and help him.…

Mary Broome

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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…

Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts

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Various


This is the twelfth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…

The Dance of Death

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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 marri…

Mr H

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Charles Lamb


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…

Opportunity

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Walter Malone


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013.Wa…

The School for Wives

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Molière


In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations …

Pollyanna, the Glad Girl: A Four-Act Comedy

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Catherine Chisholm Cushing


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 …

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