Plays
Eunuchus
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Terence
Another of the plays by Terence translated from the Latin by Riley. "A certain citizen of Athens had a daughter named Pamphila, and a s…
We Meet Not As We Parted
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: "We Meet Not As We Parted," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poe…
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
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E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare
Adaptations of Shakespearian plays for young readers. - Summary by ShrimpPhish
The New York Idea
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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 …
The Impostures of Scapin
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Molière
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. …
Sweethearts
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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 …
Shakespeare Monologues Collection
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William Shakespeare
This is the thirteenth collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Our readers have chosen their favourite monologues from Shakespear…
Modern Monologues
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Marjorie Benton Cooke
The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…
At The Sign of The Greedy Pig
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Charles S. Brooks
"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlemen…
Caliban by the Yellow Sands
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Percy MacKaye
Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized …
Medea
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman play with Greek subject) of about 1000 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It was written aroun…
The Blunderer
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Molière
A very early Moliere. From the Translator: "In this piece the plot is carried on ... by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first origina…
The Lying Lover
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Richard Steele
"The spark of this play is introduced with as much agility and life as he brought with him from France, and as much humour as I could b…
One-Act Play Collection
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Various
Here are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from a 1659 farce by Moliere to a 1896 play by Fuller with early LGBT content; a Gi…
The Torch-Bearers
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George Kelly
"The cold, historical fact is that at about 9:15 o’clock on the evening of August 29th, 1922, five or six hundred average New Yorkers, …
Hecyra
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Terence
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 unaccepta…
Belinda
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A. A. Milne
Come, join us on a lovely April afternoon in Devonshire for a breezy frolic in comedy. Milne's light-hearted romance is sure to make you chu…
Crossings
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Walter De La Mare
Under the terms of a will, the Wildersham children have to relocate from the family house in the city to "Crossings" in the countr…
Andria
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Terence
Pamphilus wants to marry a woman different than his father has chosen for him. Add in paternal scheming, death bed promises, shipwreck, and …
Amphitryon
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Molière
"The history of Amphitryon and Alcmene, or rather the myth of the birth of Hercules, is certainly very old, and is to be found in the l…