Satire
The Follies of a Day
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Pierre Beaumarchais
This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its origina…
Prejudices
Read by Jim Locke
H. L. Mencken
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…
The Conscious Lovers
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Richard Steele
As early as 1720 Steele spoke in the Theatre of "a friend of mine" who was lately preparing a comedy according to the just laws of…
Cupid's Cyclopedia
Read by David Wales
Oliver Herford
This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and i…
The Cabinet Minister
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…
Nicholas Nickleby
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Edward Stirling
This stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel debuted in November of 1838 at the Adelphi Theater in London. Only eight installments of the story …
Ballad of the Canal
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Phoebe Cary
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Ballad of the Canal by Phoebe Cary. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 4, …
Bob and Ray
On March 16, 1976, Bob and Ray welcome listeners to their cozy studio for another entertaining episode. They begin with an apology to Otto L…
George Dandin
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Henri Van Laun and Molière
"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favori…
Bob & Ray
Unknown
Chester Hasbrook Frisby admits he is out of story ideas. Pat Buttram makes jokes Firemen putting out studio fire. Thursday, …
Bob & Ray
Unknown
Mary Backstage - Following Fox hunt, ordering breakfast. Thursday, September 13, 1973
The World of Fashion
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John Oxenford
This Victorian-era dramedy was adapted by playwright/critic John Oxenford from Eugene Scribe and Ernst Legouvé’s “Les doigts de f&eac…
Bob and Ray
Greybelt
Join Bob and Ray in this entertaining episode from March 8, 1976, where they open the show with Webley, who is feeling a bit blue while play…
Bob and Ray
Join Bob and Ray in this entertaining episode where they take on the whimsical theme of walking the plank. The Captains turn nice on a Wedne…
A Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers
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Charles Macklin
This "Afterpiece" - a short play to follow a main production - was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard's five-act com…
Ginx's Baby
Read by Lisa Reichert
Edward Jenkins
In the second half of the 19th century, London was becoming a wealthy, industrialized city. It attracted many working class people from near…
Black No More
Read by Jim Locke
George Schuyler
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Read by Nick Hillier
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the 1st and 2nd Century translated into verse by John Dryden an English satirist of …