Tragedy
Philoctetes
Read by Expatriate
Sophocles
Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was writte…
One-Act Play Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s One-Act Play Collection 001 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
Pierre and Luce
Read by Roger Melin
Romain Rolland
Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted…
Zastrozzi, A Romance
Read by Martin Geeson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!”From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defianc…
When We Dead Awaken
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henrik Ibsen
When We Dead Awaken (1899) is the last play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Dreamlike and highly symbolic, the play charts the dissolut…
Phaedra
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Jean Racine
In the court of Louis XIV, adaptations of Greek tragedies were very popular. This play, heavily influenced by Euripides' Hippolytus, deals w…
Oedipus at Colonus
Read by Expatriate
Sophocles
"Oedipus at Colonus" (also Oedipus Coloneus, Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is one of the three Theban p…
The Libation-Bearers
Read by Expatriate
Aeschylus
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives f…
Agamemnon
Read by Expatriate
Aeschylus
The play Agamemnon details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestr…
The San Francisco Calamity
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fi…
Medea
Read by Expatriate
Euripides
Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE. The plot cente…
Casey at the Bat
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Decemb…
Ghosts
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henrik Ibsen
A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by…
Big Lake
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Lynn Riggs
Betty senses darkness and decay in the world around her, but not in Lloyd. Though he doesn't understand the source and depth of her feelings…
The Lords of Ellingham
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Henry Spicer
Although written in 1839, this Victorian-era drama contains the sort of extreme violence and lack of a firm moral compass that is usually as…
Esther
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Jean Racine
Esther — the first of Racine's two sacred dramas — is a tragedy in the Aristotelian acceptation of the term, as being concerned with a great…
Pelléas and Mélisande
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Pelléas and Mélisande is a Symbolist play by the Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed…
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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William Shakespeare
Considered to be William Shakespeare’s greatest masterwork and one of the most influential, quotable and enduring works in all of literature…
Paolo and Francesca
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Stephen Phillips
The tragic and adulterous story of Paolo and Francesca was originally immortalized by Dante in his "Divine Comedy". Since then, t…
Waste: A Tragedy in Four Acts
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Harley Granville-Barker
Set in Edwardian England, Waste is a story of politics, religion and adulterous scandal. First published in 1906-7, the play was refused by …