Category Archives: Satire
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
Author(s): Henry Fielding Tom Thumb, small of stature, great of heart. This play was written...
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Author(s): Francis BeaumontJohn Fletcher The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five...
The Pickwick Papers
Author(s): Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick...
The Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading)
Author(s): George Gissing Clarence and Emmeline Mumford are in for a real treat when they...
The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Author(s): Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis 16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the...
The Red Room
Author(s): August Strindberg A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy...
The Relentless City
Author(s): E. F. Benson A satiric novel of manners written in Benson’s classic style of...
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2)
Author(s): W. S. Gilbert Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly...
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Author(s): Charles Dickens Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him...
The Misanthrope
Author(s): Molière Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces...
The Notary’s Nose
Author(s): Edmond About Ironic and Satirical: A successful Parisian notary, Alfred L’Ambert, is smitten with...
The Judgment of Eve
Author(s): May Sinclair May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous...
The Satyricon
Author(s): Gaius Petronius Arbiter Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a...
The Magnificent Lovers
Author(s): Molière “The King [Louis XIV], who will have nothing but what is magnificent in...
The Imaginary Invalid
Author(s): Molière The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the...
The Impromptu of Versailles
Author(s): Molière The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for...
The Priceless Pearl
Author(s): Alice Duer Miller Pearl Leavitt is habitually fired from her New York City office...
The Inspector-General
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Governor and Officials of a small provincial town in Russia...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 5)
Author(s): Oscar Wilde In this most popular of all Oscar Wilde’s plays, two fashionable bachelors,...
The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu
Author(s): W. S. Gilbert In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts,...
The New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House
Author(s): William Hurrell Mallock A group of upper class men and women gather together in...
The Old Debauchees
Author(s): Henry Fielding Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel’s father,...
The Proposal
Author(s): Anton Chekhov The Proposal is a one act comic farce by Anton Chekhov. In...
The Idiot
Author(s): John Kendrick Bangs The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs....
The Bourgeois Gentleman
Author(s): Molière The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that...
The Country Wife
Author(s): William Wycherley One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherley’s The...
The Cabinet Minister
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed...
The Conscious Lovers
Author(s): Richard Steele As early as 1720 Steele spoke in the Theatre of “a friend...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today
Author(s): Mark TwainCharles Dudley Warner The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873...
The Celebrity
Author(s): Winston Churchill Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding...