Category Archives: Plays
The Boss
Author(s): Edward Sheldon The Boss centers on the relationship between Michael Regan, an Irish-American businessman,...
The Great Galeoto
Author(s): José Echegaray y Eizaguirre “What touches us more closely is Echegaray’s manipulation of the...
The Cat and the Canary
John Willard’s 1922 stage play effectively established the “old dark house” mystery archetype that theatre...
The Double Dealer
Author(s): William Congreve “This remarkable melodrama [The Double Dealer] – for a comedy it can...
The Funeral: or Grief A-La-Mode
Author(s): Richard Steele The Funeral: or, Grief à-la-Mode, a Comedy, was written in the summer...
The Benefit of the Doubt
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero The plot resolves around a young woman being cited in court...
The Freaks: An Idyll of Suburbia
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero When Mrs. Herrick’s brother Charlie dies, he leaves his money in...
The Comedy of Errors (version 3)
Author(s): William Shakespeare Written sometime between 1592 and 1594, Comedy of Errors is certainly the...
The Hoodoo
Author(s): Walter Ben Hare Everybody is in town for the wedding of Brighton Early and...
The Gamester
Author(s): Susanna Centlivre Young Valere, in love with Angelica, has been amusing himself at the...
The Busie Body
Author(s): Susanna Centlivre A rich heiress pretending to be in love with her guardian, but...
The Basset-Table
Author(s): Susanna Centlivre Sir Richard wants his daughter Valeria to marry a Navy Captain, but...
The Enchanted Cottage
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero A play written late in Pinero’s career that shows he still...
The Frogs
Author(s): Aristophanes Athens is in a sorry state of affairs. The great tragedian, Euripides, is...
The Comedy of Errors
Author(s): William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare’s earliest plays, believed...
The Belle’s Stratagem
Author(s): Hannah Cowley The Beaux Stratagem, already in the LibriVox catalog (https://librivox.org/beaux-stratagem-by-george-farquhar/), was written by...
The Clouds
Author(s): Aristophanes Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a...
The Beau’s Duel, or A Soldier for the Ladies
Author(s): Susanna Centlivre A comedy, this was Centlivre’s second play, first presented in 1702, and...
The Devil’s Disciple
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw Set during the American Revolution. Richard Dudgeon, put off by the...
The Birth of Merlin: The Childe Hath Found His Father
Author(s): William ShakespeareWilliam Rowley Merlin. King Arthur. War betwixt British and Saxons. Uther Pendragon. Collapsing...
Susanna
Author(s): Georg Friedrich Händel Susanna is an English Oratorio composed by Georg Friedrich Händel. The...
Sweet Lavender
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero “Sweet Lavender” must be regarded as one of the most successful...
Sir Thomas More
Author(s): Anthony Munday Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 07
Author(s): William Shakespeare LibriVox readers present the seventh collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing...
Short Plays from Dickens
Author(s): Horace Baker Browne Here is a collection of 20 short plays drawn from various...
Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 002
Author(s): William Shakespeare This is the second LibriVox collection of scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, mainly...
Shakuntala
Author(s): Kalidasa Ryder originally did a close to literal translation of this 4th or 5th...
Stories From The Operas
Author(s): Gladys Davidson “Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series...
Seven Against Thebes
Author(s): Aeschylus In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus’ trilogy about the House of...
The Awakening of Spring
Author(s): Frank Wedekind The Awakening of Spring is the German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s first major...