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One-Act Play Collection 008

Librivox’s One-Act Play Collection 008 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. Project BC: Michele Eaton At A Garden Party Narrator: Zames Curran Mr Demure:...

3 hours 52 minutes One-Act Play Collections

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440

George Farquhar - Recruiting Officer

The author was himself a recruiting officer, and possibly gathered all the materials for this play on the very spot where he has placed his scene—Shrewsbury. He has dedicated the piece «to all friends round the...

2 hours 12 minutes

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519

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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431

Alfred Sutro - Five Little Plays

British dramatist Alfred Sutro's collection contains five one act plays: «The Man in the Stalls,» «A Marriage Has Been Arranged…», «The Man on the Kerb,» «The Open Door,» and «The Bracelet.» The plays are performed by...

2 hours 28 minutes

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523

Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2)

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 28 minutes

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442

Elizabeth Cary - Tragedy of Mariam

The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus to create a closet drama (written to be read, rather than performed live)...

2 hours 14 minutes

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454

One-Act Play Collection 007

Librivox’s One-Act Play Collection 007 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. Project BC: Michele Eaton Cast listings: Stepmother Narrator: Ruth Golding...

5 hours 10 minutes One-Act Play Collections

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Maurice Maeterlinck - Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts

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 visited by Fairy Berilyuna. Fairy's granddaughter is sick and can only be saved by...

MaryAnn 3 hours 37 minutes

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577

Augusta Stevenson - Children's Classics in Dramatic Form

This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Anderson, and more authors, turned into short children's plays by Augusta Stevenson. This collection has seventeen plays in which characters come...

Margaret Espaillat 3 hours 5 minutes

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496

George Farquhar - Beaux Stratagem

Two gentlemen of broken fortune, disguised as master and servant, and thinking that a good dowry split both ways would solve their problems; some cludgy highwaymen and their confederates; foxy inn-keeper and saucy...

2 hours 55 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Euripides - Iphigenia in Aulis

Iphigenia in Aulis is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. The Greek fleet is waiting at Aulis, Boeotia, with its ships ready to sail for Troy, but it is unable to depart due to a strange lack of wind....

1 hour 39 minutes

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Edward Sheldon - Boss

The Boss centers on the relationship between Michael Regan, an Irish-American businessman, and Emily Griswold, an outspoken American girl bent on saving her father's business. Set during a time when unions fought for...

2 hours 40 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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