Bestsellers
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Death of a Salesman
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Culp, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream....
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Wonderfully Told
- By Frank on 04-30-24
By: Arthur Miller
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Julius Caesar
- A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Julius Caesar to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording....
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good play, difficult to distinguish characters
- By Christian R. Unger on 05-17-18
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic comedy by the great Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is his short farce consisting of numerous noms de plume....
By: Oscar Wilde
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Twelfth Night
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....
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If you be not mad, be gone
- By Darwin8u on 08-24-17
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Vlada Chernornirdik
- Narrated by: Josh Radnor, Stacy Keach, Martin Jarvis, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
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In this classic of Chekhov’s canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth....
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Poor American soap
- By tyrone on 10-22-17
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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Macbeth (Dramatized)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Tony Award winner Alan Cumming in his riveting solo interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy....
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Second best to seeing this performance
- By Carole T. on 08-18-12
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Death of a Salesman
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Culp, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream....
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Wonderfully Told
- By Frank on 04-30-24
By: Arthur Miller
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Julius Caesar
- A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Julius Caesar to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording....
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good play, difficult to distinguish characters
- By Christian R. Unger on 05-17-18
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic comedy by the great Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is his short farce consisting of numerous noms de plume....
By: Oscar Wilde
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Twelfth Night
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....
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If you be not mad, be gone
- By Darwin8u on 08-24-17
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Vlada Chernornirdik
- Narrated by: Josh Radnor, Stacy Keach, Martin Jarvis, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
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In this classic of Chekhov’s canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth....
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Poor American soap
- By tyrone on 10-22-17
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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Macbeth (Dramatized)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Tony Award winner Alan Cumming in his riveting solo interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy....
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Second best to seeing this performance
- By Carole T. on 08-18-12
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Tartuffe
- By: Molière, Richard Wilbur - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Bedford, JB Blanc, Daniel Blinkoff, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church....
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Great!
- By Kevin Pablo on 03-01-17
By: Molière, and others
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized)
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Charles Busch, Emily Bergl, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag....
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Delightfully silly
- By Tad Davis on 09-12-11
By: Oscar Wilde
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Oedipus the King
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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In Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus discovers that he has been caught in his terrible destiny....
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Superb
- By Mark on 11-24-09
By: Sophocles
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The Oscar Wilde Collection
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature....
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Good Collection
- By Anniebligh on 03-31-12
By: Oscar Wilde
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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
- By: Christopher Marlowe
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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Christopher Marlowe's play about a man who sells his soul to the devil is not only one of the first of many works to explore this theme but also one of the most startling....
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Bad Recording
- By Angela on 03-14-16
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Miss Julie by August Strindberg
- By: August Strindberg
- Narrated by: full cast, Amanda Friday, Ed Humpal, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Miss Julie is probably the most famous play by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, one of the founding fathers of naturalistic theater....
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melodramatic
- By Kim Bloomfield on 04-01-22
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Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Oedipus, Antigone, Electra and More
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kenneth Cranham, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Sophocles' The Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, are brought to life by celebrated writers, poets, and playwrights....
By: Sophocles
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Faust: Parts I & II
- By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement....
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Great great book
- By John A. on 09-15-21
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The Creditor
- By: August Strindberg
- Narrated by: Alan Weyman, John Burlinson, Jennifer Fournier, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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Thekla, married to the needy Adolf, has a surprise encounter with her former husband, the lordly Gustav. Or is it really a surprise? Find out....
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this is my favorite play
- By David Larson on 03-29-17
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Four Short Plays
- By: August Strindberg
- Narrated by: Leanne Yau, Charlotte Duckett, Michele Eaton, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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Although he achieved notable success as a novelist, poet, essayist, and painter, August Strindberg is best known today as one of the first and most significant masters of naturalist theatre....
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Agamemnon
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Keira Grace
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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Agamemnon is the first part of the Oresteia trilogy by the Greek playwright Aeschylus. Each of the plays that form part of The Oresteia can stand alone, but they perfectly complement one other in a longer narrative....
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Agamemnon: A Riveting Tale of Betrayal, Revenge, and Divine Justice
- By Kevin D. on 10-07-23
By: Aeschylus
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Thank You, Jeeves (Dramatized)
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Gregory Cooke, Ken Danzinger, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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A delightful British comedy from the wonderful world of P.G. Wodehouse! The perpetually misguided Bertie finds himself embroiled in a madcap adventure sparked by the abrupt departure of his beloved Jeeves. Adapted by Mark Richard....
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A really funny Jeeves
- By Eleni on 09-29-16
By: P. G. Wodehouse
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Dante's Paradise
- A Study on Part III of The Divine Comedy
- By: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Narrated by: Anthony Esolen PhD
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Professor Esolen who has served as your guide through both the Inferno and Purgatory will guide you through the profound and elevated poetry of Paradise....
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Best ever!
- By army brat on 08-06-23
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Walt Whitman Poetry Collection
- Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and a Complete Biography of Walt Whitman
- By: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Tom Chandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....
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Influential and emotional
- By Rachel A. on 03-18-21
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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Oedipus Rex
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: John H. Fehskens
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, is a tragedy that has been enjoyed for centuries. This drama is an absolute must for any scholar, student, drama lover, or classical literature fan. Here, you will find the unabridged and complete version of the work....
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NOT THE SAME AS THE BOOK
- By Dominic on 10-10-21
By: Sophocles
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The Shakespeare Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the perfect study guide to the complete works of Shakespeare, covering everything from the romantic comedy of Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy Macbeth, alongside his Elizabethan history plays, sonnets, and other poems....
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Love Shakespeare, BUT…
- By Damian on 11-09-22
By: DK
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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: John Fehskens
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Antigone, daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, faces great challenges when she must arrange a formal burial for her brother, Polynices....
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classic humor of suicide and murder
- By Paul Dion Brooks on 12-26-19
By: Sophocles
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Andromache
- By: Euripides, Gene Openshaw, Amy Escobar, and others
- Narrated by: Sonya Joseph, Andrew McGinn
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Euripides' classic tragedy in a new verse translation and a new, full cast audio production. After Troy fell to the Greeks, Andromache, the wife of the slain Trojan king Hector, was taken....
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swingers, amright?
- By Taylor Britton on 06-22-19
By: Euripides, and others
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The Cherry Orchard
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Marsha Mason, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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A work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family....
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Wonderfully Vibrant Production
- By Andre on 11-18-11
By: Anton Chekhov
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Dramatized)
- By: L. Frank Baum
- Narrated by: Erin Bordofsky, Mark Fagundes
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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The St. Charles Players present a new and unique telling of this classic tale performed in exciting Radio Theatre style...
By: L. Frank Baum
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Pygmalion
- By: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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A Cockney flower girl is transformed into a charming woman of the world by a professor of phonetics. This is the play that was later to be adapted as the musical, My Fair Lady....
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Great reader bring characters to life
- By Joseph on 02-21-15
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Ron Altman, Elizabeth Klett, Elizabeth Chambers, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Uncle Vanya is Anton Chekhov's 1902 tragicomedy focusing on the romantic entanglements of the residents of a declining country estate....
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Chekhov is pleasurable to read as well as to listen to.
- By Luiz H.S.de Vasconcellos on 10-26-22
By: Anton Chekhov
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SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to King Lear (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)
- SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)
- By: William Shakespeare, Mike Reeves
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Terrence Hardiman, Lucy Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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This is a full-cast, unabridged performance, with comprehensive commentary and analysis, enabling students to fully understand and appreciate the play....
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Excellent guide to a Great Play
- By Philip on 12-17-08
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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The Oresteia
- By: Aeschylus, Yuri Rasovsky - adaptation from translation, Ian Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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In The Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos....
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Great production, Ian Johnston translation
- By Tad Davis on 12-09-08
By: Aeschylus, and others