Drama

Ghosts

by Henrik Ibsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his conte…

The Persians

by Aeschylus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court awa…

Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …

Happy Days

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightl…

Electra

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hu…

Antigone

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This is the final installment in Sophocles' Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliber…

Antigone

by Sophocles Read by Expatriate 4.3
A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, "Antigone" has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over thr…

Faust I

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…

The Wings of the Dove

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--mo…

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a whimsical exploration of love, magic, and the complexities of human relationships, set against the backdrop o…

Shakespeare Monologues Collection

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote i…

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Perhaps the most controversial of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice tells the tale of a man, Bassanio, who has a crazy plan to …

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until …

The Strange Gentleman

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts…

The Duchess of Padua

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know …

The Changeling

by Thomas Middleton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Changeling is a sensational 1622 tragicomedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley that comprises two intertwining plots. The first inv…

Heartbreak House

by George Bernard Shaw Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. U…

Philoctetes

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island …

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tr…

Shakespeare Monologues Collection

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
LibriVox readers present the second collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 15 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, …

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