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August Strindberg - Countess Julie

August Strindberg's naturalistic one-act drama has only three characters: Julie, a passionate young noblewoman; Jean, her father's ambitious valet; and Kristin, the cook, who is also Jean's fiancee. The play is set...

1 hour 23 minutes

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490

Robert Browning - Pippa Passes

Pippa Passes was a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series. The author described the work as the first of a series of...

1 hour 50 minutes

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John Webster - Duchess of Malfi

John Webster's bloody Jacobean tragedy exposes the decadence of the Italian court. The virtuous Duchess of Malfi, a young widow, secretly marries her steward Antonio, and is subsequently persecuted by her brothers:...

Bellona Times 2 hours 58 minutes

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494

George Calderon - Cinderella

If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere… This is «a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only it had occurred to him to write one.» Set on a «bleak and cheerless heath...

1 hour 34 minutes

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Anton Chekhov - Seagull

The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It...

2 hours 7 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

461

Sophocles - Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)

Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes...

1 hour 24 minutes

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09

LibriVox readers present the ninth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest...

Raerity and 14 more 43 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08

General Fiction

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08

LibriVox readers present the eighth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest...

Ernst Pattynama and 11 more 44 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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William Shakespeare - Tempest

Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the range of Prospero's powers. Will he seek...

1 hour 55 minutes

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539

Oscar Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest (version 2)

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian...

1 hour 47 minutes

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 07

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 07

LibriVox readers present the seventh collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single...

Alexander Hughson and 13 more 51 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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William Shakespeare - King Henry IV, Part 2

Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1 and succeeded by Henry V ....

3 hours 10 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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