Plays
The Bourgeois Gentleman
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Molière
The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, …
The History of King Lear
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Nahum Tate
The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare's King Lear. It first appeared in 1681, some seventy-five yea…
Magna Carta
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Amice Macdonell
A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line "now is justice bought and sold&qu…
Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates
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Charles S. Brooks
We had hoped that our drama's scene might lie on a pirate ship at sea. We had wished for a swaying mast, full-set with canvas—a typhoon to s…
The Beaux Stratagem
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George Farquhar
Two gentlemen of broken fortune, disguised as master and servant, and thinking that a good dowry split both ways would solve their problems;…
The Princess of Bagdad
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Alexandre Dumas
Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of the proprieties of society? Are not women like you above all that? Was I to come deli…
The Magistrate
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Arthur Wing Pinero
The success of “The Magistrate” was immediate, and the Court Theatre was crowded night after night for more than a year, the play being pres…
Paul and Virginia
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly di…
Love's Young Dream
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Love's Young Dream by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26th, 201…
The Old Debauchees
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Henry Fielding
Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other chara…
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
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Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil, are visite…
Paul Jones
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas's play talks of American Naval Hero John Paul Jones's romantic entanglements and affairs of honor ashore in France. He later converted…
Short Plays from Dickens
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Horace Baker Browne
Here is a collection of 20 short plays drawn from various books by Charles Dickens such as Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Bleak House…
The Seats of The Mighty
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Gilbert Parker
For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain …
The Big Drum
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main char…
Androcles and the Lion
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George Bernard Shaw
A dramatic version of the classic fable of a kind man who comes across a lion with a thorn in its paw, his compassion for the injured lion p…
Fanny's First Play
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George Bernard Shaw
Fanny who is the daughter of a Count has written a play. Having hired professional actors and invited some major critics. She is keeping her…
Mercator; The Merchant
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Unaware that the woman Pasicompsa is his son's mistress, since the son says that he has brought her home to be his mother's attendant, an ag…
Hänsel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts
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Adelheid Wette
Adelheid Wette asked that her older brother, Engelbert Humperdinck, compose music for some children's song lyrics she had written. That simp…
One-Act Play Collection 021
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Various
Here, in our 21st collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. There are two plays from the 1700s, Congreve's "Judgement of Par…