Category Archives: Plays
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Author(s): William Shakespeare Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man...
Menaechmi; or, The Twin Brothers
Author(s): Titus Maccius Plautus Menaechimus was carried away as a child to Epidamnus. Years later...
Midsummer Night’s Dream (version 2)
Author(s): William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered...
Merry Wives of Windsor (version 2)
Author(s): William Shakespeare After the character’s colorful exploits proved a rousing success in _Henry IV,...
Measure For Measure
Author(s): William Shakespeare Generally considered one of Shakespeare’s problem plays, Measure for Measure examines the...
Prometheus Bound
When a titan chooses the suffering of mortal humanity over the comfortable tyranny of Olympus,...
Pandora’s Box
Author(s): Frank Wedekind Pandora’s Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the...
One-Act Play Collection 010
Author(s): Various Tenth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety...
One-Act Play Collection 003
Author(s): Various This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by Edward Goodman, Alice Gerstenberg,...
One-Act Play Collection 018
Author(s): Various Here, in our 18th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment....
Princess of Elis
Author(s): Molière In the month of May 1664, Louis XIV entertained the Queen-mother, Anne of...
One Act Play Collection 016
Author(s): Various Here, in our 16th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment....
Peace
Author(s): Aristophanes The ‘Peace’ was brought out four years after ‘The Acharnians’ (422 B.C.), when...
Mercator; The Merchant
Author(s): Titus Maccius Plautus Unaware that the woman Pasicompsa is his son’s mistress, since the...
One-Act Play Collection 009
Author(s): Various Ninth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety...
Mid-Channel
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero The marriage of Theodore and Zoe Blundell is not going well,...
One-Act Play Collection 020
Author(s): Various Here, in our 20th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment....
Parlor Matches
Author(s): Walter Ben Hare This little comedy of society life has to do with the...
Major Barbara
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic...
Measure for Measure (version 3)
Author(s): William Shakespeare Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare’s more enigmatic works. As...
Moralność pani Dulskiej
Author(s): Gabriela Zapolska This recording is in Polish. Moralność pani Dulskiej – dramat naturalistyczny z...
One-Act Play Collection 005
Author(s): Various This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by James M. Barrie, Hereward...
Pillars of Society
Author(s): Henrik Ibsen Pillars of Society was Ibsen’s first successful realist drama, first performed in...
Man’s World
Author(s): Rachel Crothers The mysterious Frank Ware is a woman writer forced to write under...
Magna Carta
Author(s): Amice MacDonell A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna...
Prometheus Bound (Buckley Translation)
Author(s): Aeschylus “Prometheus Bound” is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed...
Much Ado About Nothing
Author(s): William Shakespeare Written around the middle of his career, Much Ado About Nothing is...
Mucedorus
Author(s): William Shakespeare The 1610 edition says it is by Shakespeare, and the play was...
Mademoiselle De Belle Isle
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas “The refined and fashionable audiences who… used to applaud the play of...
Porcelain and Pink
Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald “Porcelain and Pink” is a comic one-act play from the 1922...