Plays

Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters


This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

The Spanish Tragedy

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Thomas Kyd


The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and inf…

Ivanov

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Anton Chekhov


Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her famil…

Magic: A Fantastic Comedy

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G. K. Chesterton


George Bernard Shaw goaded the already successful essayist and novelist Chesterton into trying his hand at a play, with this 1913 result. T…

Timon of Athens

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William Shakespeare


The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the p…

Comic Tragedies

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Louisa May Alcott


Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember the elaborate plays which the March sisters loved to perform. This volume, published …

Philoctetes

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Sophocles


Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island …

Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand - Ein Schauspiel

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand ist ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen von Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Als Vorbild der H…

An Enemy of the People

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Henrik Ibsen


A small coastal town in Norway is experiencing an economic boom from its newly found hot springs. When Dr. Thomas Stockmann finds that the w…

The Reign of King Edward the Third

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William Shakespeare


The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…

The Admirable Crichton

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J. M. Barrie


From the author of Peter Pan: Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parti…

Everyman

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Unknown


A Holy Day in 1495. Join the crowd streaming towards a temporary outdoor stage and be entertained (and maybe even instructed) by a performan…

The Treasure

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Selma Lagerlöf


Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…

The Swan Song

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Anton Chekhov


In 'The Swan Song' an aging actor reminisces about his life and the parts he's played. The piece takes a tragic look at ambition and the sac…

Amor por Anexins

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Artur de Azevedo


Artur Azevedo foi um dramaturgo, poeta, contista e jornalista brasileiro. Amor por anexins é uma curta peça em um ato foi escr…

Winter (Shakespeare)

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William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from "Love's Labour's Lost". This was t…

The Master Builder

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Henrik Ibsen


Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, first published in 1892, is about architect Halvard Solness, who despite personal tragedy (including the …

The Misanthrope

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Molière


Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the character…

The Rover (Part One)

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Aphra Behn


The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers, is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. The first part features multiple plot…

The Rivals

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan


The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable peop…

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