Category Archives: Plays
The Lying Lover: or, The Ladies’ Friendship
Author(s): Richard Steele “The spark of this play is introduced with as much agility and...
The Purgatory of St. Patrick
Author(s): Pedro Calderón de la Barca This is a “mystical drama founded on the lives...
The Naturewoman
Author(s): Upton Sinclair The Mastersons, a wealthy Bostonian family, await the arrival of their cousin...
The Merchant of Venice
Author(s): William Shakespeare William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and...
The Money-Spinner
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero When his younger brother incurs a large betting debt, what could...
The Pirates Of Penzance; Or The Slave Of Duty (Version 2)
Author(s): W. S. Gilbert In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts,...
The Beggar’s Opera
Author(s): John Gay The Beggar’s Opera is a ballad opera written in 1728 by John...
The Birds
Author(s): Aristophanes “The Birds’ differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have...
The Fairy Lady
Author(s): Pedro Calderón de la Barca Don Manuel and Cosmo are visiting town to stay...
The Captives
Author(s): Titus Maccius Plautus Though with some of Plautus’s usual comic elements (including people in...
The Dance of Death
Author(s): August Strindberg The Dance of Death is a play in two parts by the...
The Honey-Moon
Author(s): John Tobin This Restoration-era romantic comedy was written by playwright John Tobin — who...
The Gay Lord Quex
Reforming a notorious reputation in late Victorian society required far more than a simple change...
The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part 2
Long before modern adaptations brought Miguel de Cervantes’s visionary knight to the screen, Restoration playwright...
The Big Drum
Long before modern media created the phenomenon of personal branding, Arthur Wing Pinero turned his...
The Drummer, or, The Haunted House
Author(s): Joseph Addison Lady Truman received word fourteen months ago that her husband, Sir George...
The Flying Dutchman
Author(s): Richard Wagner The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) is a German Romantic Opera by...
The Hobby-Horse
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero A man’s wife is caught up in Philanthropy, generously supporting all...
The Heir At Law
Author(s): George Colman the Younger Daniel Dowlas a chandler from Gosport, transmogrified into a baron,...
The Camp of Wallenstein
Author(s): Friedrich Schiller This is the first play of Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein Trilogy. Set in...
The Barber of Seville
Author(s): Pierre Beaumarchais Count Almaviva’s heart is stolen when he lays eyes on Rosine, but...
The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part 1
Author(s): Thomas D’Urfey This is the first of a three-play sequence which was perhaps the...
The History of King Lear
Author(s): Nahum Tate The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of...
The Cradle Song
Author(s): Gregorio Martínez Sierra “In 1911 [Martinez Sierra and his wife/co-author Maria] achieved a definitive...
The Enterprise of the ”Mayflower”
Author(s): Amice MacDonell “Welcome to all! We show the story of how, nearly three hundred...
The Doctor’s Dilemma
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw The Doctor’s Dilemma is about Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, who has recently...
The Emperor of the Moon
When early modern science collided with theatrical spectacle, few playwrights exploited the absurdity of intellectual...
The Comedy of Errors (version 2)
Author(s): William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (dramatic reading)
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four...
The Gondoliers
Author(s): W. S. Gilbert In typical Gilbert and Sullivan “Topsy Turvy” style, the King of...