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Ann

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Lechmere Worrall - Ann

Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex better and thereby characterize them better in his next book. While he attempts...

2 hours 2 minutes

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Measure for Measure (version 3)

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William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure (version 3)

Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare's more enigmatic works. As one of the so-called «problem plays,» it mixes a dark plot with light overtones, without resolving the tensions inherent in either. Its...

2 hours 42 minutes

Woman is a Weathercock

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Nathan Field - Woman is a Weathercock

A Woman is a Weathercock is the first play by the former child star of the Jacobean stage, Nathan Field. The action takes place over a single day in London. A number of suitors vie over Sir John Worldly's three...

2 hours 8 minutes

Drummer, or, The Haunted House

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Joseph Addison - Drummer, or, The Haunted House

Lady Truman received word fourteen months ago that her husband, Sir George Truman, has died in battle. Now a very eligible widow with a large estate, she has more suitors than she knows what to do with. As if that...

2 hours 12 minutes

Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Vegetable; or, From President to Postman

” “Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a...

2 hours 57 minutes

Tempest (version 2)

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William Shakespeare - Tempest (version 2)

Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest . Focusing on the aging sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero, we are transported to a remote...

2 hours 25 minutes

Country Wife

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William Wycherley - Country Wife

One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherley’s The Country Wife is a lively and riotous exploration of courtly and city life in the seventeenth century, which was rife with...

3 hours 34 minutes

Gondoliers

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W. S. Gilbert - Gondoliers

In typical Gilbert and Sullivan «Topsy Turvy» style, the King of Barataria has gone missing! He was stolen as a baby and raised in secrecy as one of two gondoliers (nobody knows which) and his wife would like very...

1 hour 39 minutes

Lysistrata (version 3)

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristophanes - Lysistrata (version 3)

The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 39 minutes

Rollo's Wild Oat

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543

Clare Kummer - Rollo's Wild Oat

Rollo Webster, slightly eccentric, has a consuming ambition to play Hamlet. Escaping the restraining influences of his family, he spends his own money in engaging a company, hiring a theater and staging a production...

3 hours 16 minutes

Amends for Ladies

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Nathan Field - Amends for Ladies

Amends for Ladies falls within the genre of Jacobean city comedy. Three women debate which has the better lot: a maid, a wife, or a widow. Lady Honour, the maid, is loved by her servant, Ingen, and disguises herself...

2 hours 21 minutes

Cupid's Whirligig

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Edward Sharpham - Cupid's Whirligig

Cupid's Whirligig is a city comedy: a play in colloquial language dealing with the everyday life of London's citizens. A knight, Sir Timothy Troublesome, suspects his wife of cheating on him and, to prove that any...

Rob Marland 2 hours 56 minutes

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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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