Comedy
Lysistrata
Read by Phil Chenevert
Aristophanes
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…
The Dragon of Wantley
Read by D. A. Frank
Owen Wister
The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…
The Hardy Family
In 1949, Micky Rooney reprised his role of "Andy Hardy" from the hit 1937 MGM movie "A Family Affair" in this Old Time R…
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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Stephen Leacock
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…
Winsome Winnie
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)
Frenzied Fiction
Read by Debra Lynn
Stephen Leacock
From the cave man to Santa Claus; spies, know-it-alls, and journalists: all are fair game for Leacock’s special brand of humor. He touches o…
Teddy's Button
Read by GabrielleC
Amy Le Feuvre
Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield and guards his button jealously. But this brings contenti…
In Brief Authority
Read by Anna Simon
F. Anstey
Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales'…
The White Linen Nurse
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…
It's Higgins, Sir!
The Roberts family inherits a butler named Higgins from a distant English relative. This is a precious, short-lived radio comedy that brings…
Chorus of Women
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Aristophanes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012.Aris…
The Roaring Girl
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Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is …
The Two Noble Kinsmen
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William Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, first published in 1634. Set in ancient…
Stage Land
Read by David Muncaster
Jerome K. Jerome
A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily r…
Misalliance
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George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance, a 1910 play by George Bernard Shaw, is an ironic examination of the romantic entanglements of a varied group of people gathered…
The Wit and Humor of America
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fourth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 author…
The Harold Peary Show
Harold Peary
The Harold Peary Show made its CBS debut on September 9, 1950. Harold Peary, the creator and main performer, brought many characteristics fr…