Category Archives: Plays
The Lady From the Sea
When Henrik Ibsen published his late-nineteenth-century stage drama, he marked a pivotal transition from stark...
The Recruiting Officer
Author(s): George Farquhar The author was himself a recruiting officer, and possibly gathered all the...
The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera)
Author(s): Carlo Goldoni Mirandolina runs an inn in Florence alone with only the help of...
The Nō Plays of Japan
Author(s): Various Noh (Nō), or Nogaku—derived from the Sino-Japanese word for “skill” or “talent”—is a...
The Runaway
Author(s): Hannah Cowley The first play by Cowley, this was premiered at Drury Lane by...
The Roaring Girl
Author(s): Thomas MiddletonThomas Dekker The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas...
The Intimate Strangers
Author(s): Booth Tarkington “Beginning with the girl of yesterday and a lawyer of uncertain age,...
The Rover (Part One)
Author(s): Aphra Behn The Rover, or The Banish’d Cavaliers, is a play in two parts...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 3)
Author(s): Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled “A Trivial Comedy...
The Return of Peter Grimm
Author(s): David Belasco “Mr. Belasco has written the following account of “Peter’s” evolution: [ ]...
The Impostures of Scapin
Author(s): Molière Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can...
The Monster and Magician: or, The Fate of Frankenstein
Author(s): Antony BéraudJohn KerrJean-Toussaint Merle In 1826, French playwrights Jean-Toussaint Merle and Antony Béraud cowrote...
The Rivals
Author(s): Richard Brinsley Sheridan The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a...
The Parson’s Wedding
Author(s): Thomas Killigrew Often considered Killigrew’s best play, this is a comedy with a bawdy...
The Marrying of Ann Leete
Author(s): Harley Granville-Barker A comedy with a serious vein running through it about the Leete...
The Princess and the Butterfly
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero The English-born Princess Pannonia had spent the twenty years of her...
The London Prodigal
Author(s): William Shakespeare Published in 1605 with the title: “The London Prodigall. As it was...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2)
Author(s): Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright,...
The Letter, A Play in Three Acts
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham The wife of a plantation manager in “British Malaysia” shoots a...
The Merry Devil of Edmonton
Author(s): William Shakespeare Tucker Brooke, author of The Shakespeare Apocrypha (available separately here at Librivox),...
The Pirates of Penzance
Author(s): W. S. GilbertSir Arthur Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty...
The Princess Zoubaroff
Author(s): Ronald Firbank The Princess Zoubaroff is a witty, subversive, and unbelievably suggestive play, far...
The Melting Pot
Author(s): Israel Zangwill Russian-Jew David Quixano has come to America after surviving a pogrom which...
The Noble Heart
Author(s): George Henry Lewes This Victorian melodrama, written by G.H. Lewes, common law husband of...
The Law Against Lovers
Author(s): William Davenant The Law Against Lovers was a dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare, arranged by...
The Provoked Wife: A Comedy
Author(s): John Vanbrugh This Restoration Comedy follows Lady Brute as she decides whether or not...
The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce
Author(s): William Mountfort First produced between 1684-1688, this – as the title says – is...
The Reign of King Edward the Third
Author(s): William Shakespeare The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed...
The Princess of Bagdad
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas, fils Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of...
The Rocket
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero Gentlemen out away from London, looking for wives. “I’m going to...