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Comedy of Errors

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William Shakespeare - Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour...

1 hour 37 minutes

All's Well That Ends Well

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485

William Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well

Despite its optimistic title, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well has often been considered a «problem play.» Ostensibly a comedy, the play also has fairy tale elements, as it focuses on Helena, a virtuous...

2 hours 52 minutes

Ivanov

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486

Anton Chekhov - Ivanov

Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her family after converting from Judaism, is dying of tuberculosis. He is deeply in...

2 hours 31 minutes

Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed

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477

John Fletcher - Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed

John Fletcher's comedy (probably written and performed around 1611) is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in which, as the title suggests, the tamer will be tamed. Petruchio, the shrew-tamer, has been...

2 hours 34 minutes

Skin Game

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458

John Galsworthy - Skin Game

A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives...

2 hours 27 minutes

Twelfth Night (version 2)

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William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night (version 2)

Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated from each other by a shipwreck. Viola, believing her brother...

2 hours 17 minutes

Strange Gentleman

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Charles Dickens - Strange Gentleman

Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts”. Characters arrive at a village inn called “The St. James Arms” and much...

1 hour 18 minutes

Pride and Prejudice: A Play

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548

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice: A Play

Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters,...

2 hours 42 minutes

Major Barbara

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George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic Lady Britomart Undershaft and her estranged husband Andrew, a millionaire armaments manufacturer. Their daughters Sarah and Barbara are both...

3 hours 14 minutes

Importance of Being Earnest (version 3)

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Oscar Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest (version 3)

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled «A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,» and has proved immensely popular since its first performance in 1895. The play certainly has its farcical and comic...

2 hours 11 minutes

Midsummer Night's Dream (version 2)

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William Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream (version 2)

Shakespeare's festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered Amazonian bride Hippolyta) with four contentious lovers, a forest full of quarreling and mischievous fairies and adds...

2 hours 12 minutes

Candida

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George Bernard Shaw - Candida

Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene...

2 hours

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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