Satire
Zadig or The Book of Fate (Version 2)
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Voltaire
"there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:" -- this quote from this novel sums it up. One of Voltaire's most…
Don Quixote in England
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Henry Fielding
"The Audience, I believe, are all acquainted with the Character of Don Quixote and Sancho. I have brought them over into England, and i…
Bob and Ray WOR 072 June 20, 1973
BNRToast
Wednesday, the last day of spring. Bob & Ray discuss newsman Henry Gladstone’s musical ability.
The "Mind The Paint" Girl
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Another Pinero play from the early 1900s. With a social message about the effects of stardom on the star as well as those that love them. &q…
The Old Bachelor
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William Congreve
"In The Old Bachelor we have three or four concurrent plots, which become interwoven, indeed, at the end.... It is recorded that the s…
Peg O' My Heart
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John Hartley Manners
The Chichester family have just gone bankrupt due to bank failure. Their situation looks gloomy until Mrs. Chichester learns of the death of…
The Notary's Nose
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Edmond About
Ironic and Satirical: A successful Parisian notary, Alfred L’Ambert, is smitten with a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer. After a quarrel, his…
The Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English)
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Pierre Beaumarchais
This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its origina…
Prejudices, Second Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…
The Conscious Lovers
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Richard Steele
As early as 1720 Steele spoke in the Theatre of "a friend of mine" who was lately preparing a comedy according to the just laws of…
Cupid's Cyclopedia
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Oliver Herford
This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and i…
Aus dem Märchenbuch der Wahrheit
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Fritz Mauthner
Sammlung meist sehr tiefsinniger bzw hintergründiger Kurzgeschichten, oft mit philosphischem oder sozialem Gehalt und Bezug zu mancher …
Entremeses
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes siempre quiso triunfar como autor de teatro, tarea casi imposible al tener que competir en los mismos dias con "el fén…
The Cabinet Minister
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…
Nicholas Nickleby: A Farce in 2 Acts
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Edward Stirling
This stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel debuted in November of 1838 at the Adelphi Theater in London. Only eight installments of the story …