Drama & Play audiobooks
Lady Windermere's Fan
by Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other w..
A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane
by Oscar WildeA Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th-century Florentine merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality, Simone challenges the interloper to a duel, disarms him, and strangles him. This awakens the affection ..
Vera; or the Nihilists
by Oscar WildeVera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. In 1880, with only a few copies privately printed, arrangements were made with noted actresses for a production in the United Kingdom, but this neve..
Comic Tragedies
by Louisa May AlcottLike Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with his Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Louisa May Alcott has created some of the most memorable fictional characters in her Little Women, so much so that they seem real. I know they are based upon her childhood, and one day I will have to get a biography to find out where non-fiction ends and fiction begins. This is a ..
Don Juan in Hell
by George Bernard ShawMan and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to calls for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. Man and Superman opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but it omitted the third act. A part of the act, Don Juan in Hell (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed ..
Caesar and Cleopatra
by George Bernard ShawCaesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans. It was first performed in a single staged reading..
The Seagull
by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov's play The Sea-Gull was a triumph, though it was a famous failure during first production. The Sea-Gull deals with the artistic conflicts between four major characters actress Arkadina, her son and a playwright Konstantin, her lover Trigorin and Nina. Arkadina while on a vacation to her brother's country estate along-with he..
Ivanov
by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovIvanov is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Ivanov was first performed in 1887, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy. Chekhov, however, responded with a four-act drama, which he wrote in ten days...