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Ben Jonson - Devil is an Ass
An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at the Squire Fabian Fitzdottrel, he finds Fabian currently beset by con men, cheats,...
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Molière - Misanthrope
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well rounded, and who knows — Alceste might actually...
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One-Act Play Collection 010
Tenth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. Mosada Narrator: Availle Mosada: Sonia Ebremar: Tomas Peter Cola: Charlotte Duckett First Inquisitor:...
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Molière - School for Wives
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). «The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom...
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Arthur Wing Pinero - Schoolmistress
The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: «Think of the deception I am practising upon dear Vere! Think of the people who...
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Alexandre Dumas - Paul Jones
Dumas's play talks of American Naval Hero John Paul Jones's romantic entanglements and affairs of honor ashore in France. He later converted it to a novel. — Summary by ToddHW Cast list: The Marquis D'Auray:...
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George Farquhar - Inconstant
Subtitled «The Way to Win Him:, this play is placed in Paris — a change from many others of Farquhar's plays which used English settings — though still presented to the same English audience. „This comedy… had a...
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J. M. Barrie - Quality Street
Two sisters living on Quality Street set up and run a school for children after the local doctor heads off to fight Napoleon. Ten years later he returns, thinking that all the adventures have been his, and that the...
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Arthur Wing Pinero - Magistrate
The success of “The Magistrate” was immediate, and the Court Theatre was crowded night after night for more than a year, the play being presented over 300 times. So prosperous was the run that there was no cessation...
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J. M. Barrie - Kiss for Cinderella
This play does have Cinderella and a Godmother, Royalty, and glass slippers, but it takes place in WW1 and is certainly not your typical fairy tale! Produced on Broadway in 1916, it was made into a silent movie in...
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George Farquhar - Sir Harry Wildair
This sequel to the Jubilee [The Constant Couple, or A Trip to the Jubilee] appeared at Drury Lane in 1701, and was almost as popular as its predecessor. The smartness of the dialogue, the witty comment upon the...
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Horace Baker Browne - Short Plays from Dickens
Here is a collection of 20 short plays drawn from various books by Charles Dickens such as Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend. «For the use of Amateur and School Dramatic...
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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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