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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

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Percy MacKaye - Caliban by the Yellow Sands

Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized from a strange magician named Prospero and his young daughter, Miranda....

Amelia Chesley 2 hours 56 minutes

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Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)

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Hyakuzō Kurata - Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)

At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called «The Priest & His Disciples» («Shukke to sono...

Expatriate 5 hours 44 minutes

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Bayard Veiller - Thirteenth Chair

Your best friend has been murdered, stabbed in the back, and the police haven't been able to solve the case. You have consulted with the best detective in the area. You have asked friends and neighbors about the...

2 hours 1 minute

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Henrik Ibsen - Little Eyolf (Mencken Translation)

One of the four profound plays of Ibsen’s late period (along with “The Master Builder,” “John Gabriel Borkman,” and “When We Dead Awaken”), “Little Eyolf” tells the story of Albert Allmers, a writer who has yearned to...

Expatriate 2 hours 38 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristophanes - Clouds

Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he can purchase lessons from the famous Socrates in ways to manipulate language in...

Expatriate 1 hour 38 minutes

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Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris

Orestes, coming into Tauri in Scythia, in company with Pylades, had been commanded to bear away the image of Diana, after which he was to meet with a respite from the avenging Erinnyes of his mother. His sister...

1 hour 30 minutes

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Henrik Ibsen - Pillars of Society

Pillars of Society was Ibsen's first successful realist drama, first performed in 1877. Karsten Bernick is the dominant businessman in a small coastal town in Norway, with interests in shipping and shipbuilding in a...

3 hours 12 minutes

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Karel Čapek - R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is...

1 hour 47 minutes

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Luigi Pirandello - Henry IV, A Tragedy in Three Acts

A talented actor and historian falls off his horse in a historical pageant while playing the role of Henry IV. When he comes to, he believes himself to be Henry. For the next twenty years his nephew, Count de...

2 hours 2 minutes

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James Joyce - Exiles

Exiles is a play by James Joyce, who is principally remembered for his novels. It was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970, when Harold Pinter...

2 hours 47 minutes

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Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson - Time is Not Yet Ripe

Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (1878 — 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist and playwright. He was born in Edinburgh but moved to Melbourne, Australia when he was three. He attended the University of Melbourne and...

ToddHW 1 hour 55 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

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

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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