Plays
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 …
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…
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 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 …
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…
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 …
Mademoiselle De Belle Isle
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Alexandre Dumas
"The refined and fashionable audiences who... used to applaud the play of Mademoiselle de Belle Isle… would, in all probability, have o…