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William Shakespeare - Richard III

Richard III is an early history play probably written and performed around 1592-93. It is the culmination of Shakespeare's earlier three plays about Henry VI, and chronicles the bloody career of Richard, Duke of...

Diana Majlinger 3 hours 29 minutes

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Comedy

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Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya (subtitled “Scenes From Country Life”) is a tragicomedy by Anton Chekhov. It is set on the failing country estate of a retired professor, Serebrakoff, who returns after a long absence with his beautiful...

1 hour 52 minutes

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General Fiction

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John Milton - Samson Agonistes

“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time,...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 37 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath. Probably written in 1599 and among...

2 hours 29 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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Robert Baldwin Ross - Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane

Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth of...

Silence 56 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Tragedy of Macbeth

Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of Macbeth , perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he...

2 hours 11 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (version 3)

Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage «star-cross'd lovers» whose «untimely deaths» ultimately unite their feuding households. The play has been highly praised by literary...

Sam Stinson 3 hours 15 minutes

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Christopher Marlowe - Jew of Malta

Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known...

2 hours 21 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust I

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly...

4 hours 19 minutes

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William Shakespeare - King Lear

King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom among his three daughters in proportion...

3 hours 23 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (version 2)

Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two «star-crossed lovers» from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and...

Ancilla 3 hours 3 minutes

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