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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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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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: John Fehskens
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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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 Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
- By: Christopher Marlowe
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: John Fehskens
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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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 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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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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Richard III
- A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard and his fantasy of total control of self and domination of others....
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Need
- By Amazon Customer on 10-20-17
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Much Ado About Nothing
- Much Ado About Nothing (Dramatized)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Tennant, Samantha Spiro, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
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In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own....
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Come...bid me do anything for thee.
- By Irene Adler on 08-01-14
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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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Pygmalion
- By: Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Lucy Whybrow, Geoffrey Palmer, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories, but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady....
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Classroom Use
- By Kellee M. Lyons on 12-11-12
By: Bernard Shaw
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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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Four Greek Comedies
- 'The Birds', 'The Frogs', 'The Clouds', and 'The Peace'
- By: Aristophanes, C. A. Wheelwright - translator
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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These four plays, translated into blank verse by C. A. Wheelwright, present to us the wide range of this ancient playwright's fertile imagination....
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Fabulous!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-12-19
By: Aristophanes, and others
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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
- By: Arnold Weinstein, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
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You learn how drama makes visible the conflicts and wars of culture in ways other forms cannot manage....
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Great Course, Great Professor, Great Book!
- By AnneN on 08-05-14
By: Arnold Weinstein, and others
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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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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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Richard III
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Troughton, Saskia Wickham, Margaret Robertson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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Brilliantly manipulative and entirely amoral, the hero-villain Richard is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles....
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Spectacular acting
- By Claire on 02-27-18
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The Oresteia Trilogy
- By: Aeschylus
- Narrated by: Keira Grace
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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The Oresteia is a tragedy in three parts written by Aeschylus in the fifth century BCE. After a decade of warfare, Troy had fallen and Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, returned home....
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Pretty Basic Narration
- By cannonwoods on 01-18-20
By: Aeschylus
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Theogony and Works and Days
- By: Hesiod
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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The Greek poet, Hesiod, stands out as the first personality in European literature....
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Audio Editing Needs to be Redone
- By Daniel Harper on 07-19-21
By: Hesiod
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Coriolanus
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, Jessica Tandy
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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A classic performance of one of the Bard's classics....
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Amazing
- By Fificat on 04-01-18
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Trifles
- By: Susan Glaspell
- Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett, Amy Madigan, Sam McMurray, and others
- Length: 28 mins
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Written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, Trifles is a one-act play about a woman accused of strangling her husband....
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Some lines are changed or added
- By Amazon Customer on 08-28-22
By: Susan Glaspell
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Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Antigone is a famous Greek tragedy attributed to the ancient playwright Sophocles at around 440 BCE. The play expands on the Theban legend of Oedipus that predates it, dealing with Antigone’s burial of her brother Polyneices in defiance of the law....
By: Sophocles
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Three Sisters
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Chekhov’s masterpiece in a full-cast performance starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm....
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A little too confusing without staging
- By Calliope on 05-13-15
By: Anton Chekhov
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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
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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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Oedipus the King
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference....
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Great Production...Questionable Translation
- By Vanessa B. Lund on 01-17-13
By: Sophocles
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Cyrano de Bergerac
- By: Edmond Rostand
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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The story of Cyrano, his famous nose, and his undying love for the beautiful Roxanne evokes the spirit and panache of 17th century France....
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Cyrano de WHO?
- By David A on 12-20-12
By: Edmond Rostand
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She Stoops to Conquer
- Mistakes of the Night
- By: Oliver Goldsmith
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Adam Godley, Julian Holloway, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Starring James Marsters, this classic comedy of manners from 1773 is still widely performed and studied.....
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Wonderful performances and production. Fun story!
- By MillenniumMike on 10-31-12
By: Oliver Goldsmith
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Dramatized)
- By: Washington Irving
- Narrated by: The St. Charles Players
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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There's a legend in this valley about a ghostly horseman that rides by night. There are many such legends and for schoolteacher Ichabod Crane the darkness of night holds a special fascination...
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Performance dated
- By Kim Carmichael on 08-29-20
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Moby Dick (Dramatized)
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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A splash of the sea and the salt in the ocean air signals the beginning of the greatest whaling adventure of all time. This is literature's great voyage...
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A LIFELIKE DRAMATIZATION
- By Mary Burnight on 09-15-23
By: Herman Melville
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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