Plays
The Tragedy of Mariam
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Elizabeth Cary
The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus …
Adventskalender 2014
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. bis 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme über Weihnachten, den …
The Dance of Death
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August Strindberg
The Dance of Death is a play in two parts by the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, written in 1900. It depicts the dissolution of a marri…
Simultan Krippenspiel (Concert bruitiste)
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Hugo Ball
Dies ist ein ungewöhnliches dadaistisches Krippenspiel, wobei die Weihnachtsgeschichte fast nur mit Hilfe von Lauten und Geräusche…
Mary Broome
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Allan Monkhouse
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…
Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts
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Various
This is the twelfth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…
La mandragola
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Callimaco è innamorato di donna Lucrezia che però è una donna onesta sposata a Messer Nicia. Come fare per conquistarla…
The School for Wives
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Molière
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations …
Mr H
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Charles Lamb
Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the…
Pollyanna, the Glad Girl: A Four-Act Comedy
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Catherine Chisholm Cushing
Miss Polly Harrington is not at all pleased to be taking charge of her orphaned niece - but duty is duty, and that's how Pollyanna Whittier …
Mademoiselle De Belle Isle
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Alexandre Dumas
"The refined and fashionable audiences who... used to applaud the play of Mademoiselle de Belle Isle… would, in all probability, have o…
Opportunity
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Walter Malone
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013.Wa…
The Steel Hammer
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Louis Ulbach
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his…
One-Act Play Collection 005
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Various
This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by James M. Barrie, Hereward Carrington, Marjorie Benton Cooke, Alice Gerstenberg, Susa…
Quality Street
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J. M. Barrie
Two sisters living on Quality Street set up and run a school for children after the local doctor heads off to fight Napoleon. Ten years late…
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
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Friedrich Schiller
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua ist das zweite vollendete Drama Friedrich von Schillers. Er begann das Stück, das sich an die…
Vandover and the Brute
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Frank Norris
Vandover is a student who succumbs to a gambling addiction. This addiction causes him to divest himself of his cherished possessions and to …
The Tinker's Wedding
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John Millington Synge
The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge. The author's only comedy, it is set on a roadside near a cha…
Adventskalender 2019
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Various
Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. bis 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme über Weihnachten, den …
One-Act Play Collection 006
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Various
This collection includes ten one-act plays by David Belasco, Arnold Bennett, Hereward Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Lord Dunsany, John Galswort…