Plays
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 4)
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William Shakespeare
Even people who claim to hate Shakespearean comedy have to admit that they love A Midsummer Night’s Dream.The original play is already natur…
Where the Bee Sucks
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Where the Bee Sucks by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 8, 2…
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox readers present the ninth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 15…
Collection : pièces en un acte & monologues 001
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Various
Ceci est une collection de pièces en un acte et de monologues en français.This is a collection of French one-act plays and mon…
Thais
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Anatole France
The fourth century ascetic Paphnuce, journeys from his remote desert hermitage to urban Alexandria determined to locate the stunningly beaut…
Die Braut von Messina oder die feindlichen Brüder - Ein Trauerspiel mit Chören
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Friedrich Schiller
Die Braut von Messina oder die feindlichen Brüder ist ein Drama von Friedrich Schiller, dem der Autor die Gattungskennzeichnung „Ein Tr…
Miss Civilization
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Richard Harding Davis
Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a young woman who matches wits with three burglars attempting to rob her house. Thi…
Iphigenie in Aulis
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Euripides
Iphigenie in Aulis übersetzt aus dem Euripides von Friedrich von Schiller. Die Gesinnungen in diesem Stücke sind groß und ed…
The Enterprise of the ''Mayflower''
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Amice Macdonell and Amice MacDonell
"Welcome to all! We show the story of how, nearly three hundred years ago, when this country was not so happy as it is now, some people…
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…
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…
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…
The Nō Plays of Japan
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Varioustranslated Byarthur Waley and Varioustranslated By Arthur Waley
Noh (Nō), or Nogaku—derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent"—is a major form of classical Japanese mu…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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 …