Comedy

Volpone, or, The Fox

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Ben Jonson


Volpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed an…

George Dandin, ou Le mari confondu

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Molière


George Dandin soupçonne sa femme de le tromper avec un galant. Mais il a beau s'enrager et essayer de convaincre ses beaux-parents de…

Uit het leven van Dik Trom

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Cornelis Johannes Kieviet


Dit is het eerste van zes boeken over Dik Trom, een ondeugende, dikke jongen, waarvan zijn vader altijd zegt: “Het is een bijzonder kind, en…

Fred Allen--The Fred Allen Show (1945-1949)


Various


The surviving installments of the master satirist's final series, on NBC, for Blue Bonnet Margarine and Tetley Tea through 1947 and Ford Mot…

Mr & Mrs Blandings 11 Eps


Various


(11 Episodes) "Mr & Mrs Blandings," was the NBC OTR sitcom, starring Cary Grant & Betsy Drake as Jim & Muriel Blanding…

The Rover (Part One)

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Aphra Behn


The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers, is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. The first part features multiple plot…

The Rivals

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan


The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable peop…

The Dragon of Wantley

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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…

Lysistrata (version 3)

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 Hardy Family 08 Eps


Various


(08 Episodes - 1 INC) "The Hardy Family" * In 1949, Micky Rooney reprised his role of "Andy Hardy" (from the hit 1937 MG…

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…

Teddy's Button

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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…

Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

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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…

In Brief Authority

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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'…

It's Higgins, Sir!


Various


The Roberts family inherits a butler named Higgins from a distant English relative. This is a precious, short lived radio comedy from 1951. …

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…

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…

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