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Ghosts

Plays

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Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries. Dubbed «a dirty deed done in public» by one of its critics, the...

2 hours 10 minutes

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Electra

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

511

Sophocles - Electra

Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hungry for revenge and longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her...

1 hour 24 minutes

Bacchae

Tragedy

494

Euripides - Bacchae

The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agavë, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) for refusing to worship him. (Summary by Wikipedia)...

1 hour 35 minutes

Mary Stuart

Plays

465

Friedrich Schiller - Mary Stuart

Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her potential claim on the English throne. The action of the play revolves...

4 hours 1 minute

Antigone

Tragedy

448

Sophocles - Antigone

This is the final installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brother's body and is...

1 hour 14 minutes

Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation)

Plays

442

Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation)

This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the prophecy that predicted he would kill his father and marry his mother,...

1 hour 36 minutes

Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Tragedy

459

Christopher Marlowe - Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, normally known simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor...

1 hour 39 minutes

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Trojan Women (Murray Translation)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

507

Euripides - Trojan Women (Murray Translation)

Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begins first with the...

1 hour 43 minutes

Ivanov

Plays

469

Anton Chekhov - Ivanov

Nicolai (anglicised Nicholas in this translation) Ivanov, a middle-aged public servant, is unhappy. His wife Anna, disinherited by her family after converting from Judaism, is dying of tuberculosis. He is deeply in...

2 hours 31 minutes

Hippolytus

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

431

Euripides - Hippolytus

Eurpides' tragedy tells of Theseus' chaste son Hippolytus, who refuses to worship Aphrodite in favor of Artemis. Aphrodite gets revenge by causing Hippolytus' stepmother Phaedra to fall in love with him, unleashing a...

1 hour 38 minutes

Hamlet (version 3)

Tragedy

493

William Shakespeare - Hamlet (version 3)

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet,...

3 hours 41 minutes

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Skin Game

Comedy

441

John Galsworthy - Skin Game

A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives...

2 hours 27 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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