Drama audiobooks
The great plays, performed in your ears.
Plays are scripts for voices, which makes them one of the most natural things to listen to. Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies sit beside Sophocles, Ibsen's modern problem plays, Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners, Goethe, Rostand's Cyrano, Sheridan, Shaw and Pirandello. With the full text on screen you can follow who is speaking at every turn.
- First chapter free, no account
- Full text on screen as you listen
- 7-day trial, then $4.99/month or $49/year
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The best-known drama titles in the libraryShort listens
Under 5 hours — finish one this week-
Much Ado About Nothing
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Tempest
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Twelfth Night
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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
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The Merchant of Venice
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As You Like It
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Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory N
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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A Doll's House: A Play
All 44 drama audiobooks
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Hamlet
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Romeo and Juliet
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Macbeth
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Othello
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King Lear
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Much Ado About Nothing
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Tempest
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Twelfth Night
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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
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The Merchant of Venice
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As You Like It
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Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory N
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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A Doll's House: A Play
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Julius Caesar
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Richard III
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The Winter's Tale
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Tartuffe
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Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts
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An Enemy of the People
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Man and Superman
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The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts
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Arms and the Man
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An Ideal Husband
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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The Wild Duck
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The Rivals: A Comedy
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The School for Scandal
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Major Barbara
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Heartbreak House
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Faust — Part 1
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Edward II
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Everyman and Other Interludes
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King Henry V
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Medea of Euripides
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Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
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The Bacchae of Euripides
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The sea-gull
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Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts
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Wilhelm Tell
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Are these drama audiobooks free?
The first chapter of every book plays free with no account. A free account adds the opening chapters of every book, plus one whole book of your choice from a shelf of five classics. The full library — all 44 drama titles and everything else — is $4.99 a month or $49 a year after a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.
Can I read along while I listen?
Yes. Every Compendium audiobook shows the full chapter text on screen as it plays, on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps.
What's the shortest and longest drama audiobook here?
Tartuffe is the shortest at 1 hr 47 min; Man and Superman is the longest at 6 hr 26 min. The whole collection runs about 127 hours.
