Comedy

The Rivals

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan


The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable peop…

The Dragon of Wantley

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Owen Wister


The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…

Lysistrata (version 3)

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Aristophanes


The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…

The Hardy Family 08 Eps


Various


(08 Episodes - 1 INC) "The Hardy Family" * In 1949, Micky Rooney reprised his role of "Andy Hardy" (from the hit 1937 MG…

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

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Stephen Leacock


Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…

Teddy's Button

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Amy Le Feuvre


Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield and guards his button jealously. But this brings contenti…

Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

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Stephen Leacock


Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

Frenzied Fiction

Read by Debra Lynn


Stephen Leacock


From the cave man to Santa Claus; spies, know-it-alls, and journalists: all are fair game for Leacock’s special brand of humor. He touches o…

It's Higgins, Sir!


Various


The Roberts family inherits a butler named Higgins from a distant English relative. This is a precious, short lived radio comedy from 1951. …

In Brief Authority

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F. Anstey


Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales'…

The White Linen Nurse

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…

Chorus of Women

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Aristophanes


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012.Aris…

The Roaring Girl

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Thomas Middleton


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 …

Stage Land

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Jerome K. Jerome


A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily r…

The Two Noble Kinsmen

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William Shakespeare


The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, first published in 1634. Set in ancient…

Misalliance

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George Bernard Shaw


Misalliance, a 1910 play by George Bernard Shaw, is an ironic examination of the romantic entanglements of a varied group of people gathered…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 04

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fourth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 author…

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