Performance audiobooks

The Playboy Of The Western World (Unabridged)

By: J. M. Synge

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. A young man stumbles into a rural public house in western Ireland claiming to be on the run after having killed his father. He immediately becomes a source of awe and an object of adoration, and even love. But what happens when the inhabitants of this tiny village find out all is not... Read more

The Hairy Ape (Unabridged)

By: Eugene O’Neill

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape isn’t one of his bestknown works, but it has gained popularity as an exploration of early American society. It was first produced in 1922 by the Provincetown Players in Massachusetts, embracing expressionism in its set design and staging, before moving... Read more

Much Ado About Nothing (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Shakespeare wrote Much Ado About Nothing towards the middle of his career, sometime between 1598 and 1599. It was first published in quarto in 1600 and later collected into Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies in 1623. The earliest recorded performance of Much... Read more

As You Like It (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. In a French duchy, the old Duke has been usurped by his younger brother, Frederick. A young man named Orlando is mistreated by his elder brother, against their dead father’s wishes. Rosalind, the old Duke’s daughter, has been allowed to remain in court only because she is the closest... Read more

King John (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. An ambassador sent by King Philip of France delivers an ominous threat: King John must relinquish his throne to its rightful heir, his nephew Arthur of Bretagne, or France will declare a “fierce and bloody war.” John refuses. After receiving this news, Philip orders his forces to... Read more

Henry Iv, Part Ii (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. As the dust settles on the battlefield at Shrewsbury, news spreads that the rebel forces fighting against King Henry IV have suffered a terrible defeat. Their leader, Harry “Hotspur” Percy, was killed by Prince Hal. The rebel troops quickly abandon the fight after seeing their leader... Read more

Richard Ii (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Against the advice of his counselors, Richard II has been taking money from England’s coffers and spending it on fashion and close friends. In order to continue his wasteful spending, he raises taxes on the commoners and leases portions of English land to wealthy noblemen. He also... Read more

Henry Iv, Part I (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. King Henry IV’s plan to lead a crusade to Jerusalem is put on hold after he hears about skirmishes along England’s Welsh and Scottish borders. The Welsh rebel Glendower has fought off the English forces and has managed to capture Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March. Meanwhile, Harry... Read more

Twelfth Night (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. A storm has caused a terrible shipwreck off the Illyrian coast. Two siblings, Viola and her brother Sebastian, become separated, each believing the other has drowned. Viola washes ashore and meets a friendly sea captain who offers to help her find work for Duke Orsino—but first she... Read more

Henry Viii (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Henry VIII is one of the few of Shakespeare’s plays thought to have been written with a collaborator. It was initially published in the First Folio under Shakespeare’s name only, but in 1850 James Spedding, an English author and expert on the works of Francis Bacon, suggested that the... Read more

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the many comedies written by William Shakespeare. It was written around 1595 and first published in Shakespeare’s first quarto in 1600. The exact reason for why this play was produced has been lost to time; some historians theorize that it could... Read more

Edward Iii (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The authorship of Edward III has been up for debate ever since it was first published in 1596. Its publisher, Cuthbert Burby, published it without listing an author, and any records that might have shed light on the author’s name (or names) were destroyed in the Great Fire of London... Read more

Tartuffe (Unabridged)

By: Molière

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The first three acts of Molière’s Tartuffe were first performed for Louis XIV in 1664, but the play was almost immediately suppressed—not because the King disliked it, but because the church resented the insinuation that the pious were frauds. After several different versions were... Read more

The Jew Of Malta (Unabridged)

By: Christopher Marlowe

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Christopher Marlowe wrote The Jew of Malta at the height of his career, and it remained popular until England’s theaters were closed by Parliament in 1642. Many have critiqued it for its portrayal of Elizabethan antisemitism, but others argue that Marlowe criticizes Judaism, Islam,... Read more

The Comedy Of Errors (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest and shortest plays. This comedy utilizes slapstick humor, word play, and mistaken identities to create a series of farcical accidents. Over time, the play’s title has become an idiom used to describe “an event or series of events... Read more

Antony And Cleopatra (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Antony and Cleopatra begins two years after Julius Ceasar. Mark Antony was supposed to be in Egypt to conduct government affairs on behalf of the Roman Empire. Instead, he fell in love with the beautiful Queen Cleopatra, became her lover, and abandoned his duties to his wife and... Read more

The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Two close friends, Proteus and Valentine, are saying their goodbyes in the streets of Verona. Valentine plans to travel to Milan and discover the world, but Proteus wants to stay with Julia, a woman he loves. While in Milan, Valintine falls in love with the duke’s daughter, Sylvia,... Read more

The Dead Secret (Unabridged)

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Dead Secret is Wilkie Collins’ fourth novel. It first appeared in serial form in Charles Dickens’ Household Words magazine during 1856. Like many of Collins’ books, it features incidents and themes which were considered to be sensational at the time; in this case, sex before... Read more

Britannicus de Racine

By: Jean Racine

Narrated by: Robert Hirsch, René Arrieu, Annie Ducaux, Miche...

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Deuxième grande tragédie de Racine, dont le sujet est pris dans l'histoire romaine. Cette interprétation par la Comédie-Française est mise en scène par Michel Vitold ; réalisation sonore : Paul-Emile Deiber.- Read more

Les Femmes savantes

By: Molière

Narrated by: Annie Girardot, Maurice Escande, Lise Delamare,...

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

La pièce raconte l'histoire d'une famille, où la mère (Philaminte), la belle-sœur de cette dernière (Bélise) et une de ses deux filles (Armande) sont sous l'emprise d'un faux savant (Trissotin), qui les subjugue de ses poèmes et savoirs pédants mais s'intéresse plus à l'argent de la famille qu'à l'érudition des trois femmes. Cette situation... Read more

Dom Juan

By: Molière

Narrated by: Philippe Noiret, Monique Chaumette, Jean-Pierre...

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

La pièce donne à suivre les deux dernières journées de la vie de Dom Juan Tenorio, libertin grand amateur de femmes, flanqué tout au long des cinq actes de son fidèle valet Sganarelle, couard, gourmand et amateur de disputes intellectuelles. Provocateur impénitent, Dom Juan n'échappera pas à la vengeance du Ciel, qui le châtiera par le bras... Read more

Les Fourberies de Scapin

By: Molière

Narrated by: Sylvie Pelayo, Sophie Desmarets, Claude Rich, L...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Avec le génial Louis de Funès dans le rôle de Géronte. Les Fourberies de Scapin est une comédie de Molière en prose, créée en 1671 et fortement empreinte de comédie italienne. Du vivant de Molière, qui interprétait Scapin, elle ne connut qu'un faible succès ; à sa mort il devient immense, jusqu'à en faire une des pièces les plus jouées du... Read more

Don Juan de Molière

By: Molière

Narrated by: Philippe Noiret, Monique Chaumette, Jean Vilar,...

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

C'était en 1956 sur les ondes de France III Nationale, dans "Le théâtre et l'université", une émission placée sous le haut patronage de l'Éducation nationale. On y donnait une version radiophonique du Dom Juan de Molière, dans une mise en scène de Jean Vilar, enregistrée en public à Chaillot. Jean Vilar interprétait Dom Juan, Daniel Sorano était... Read more

Corneille - Le Cid

By: Pierre Corneille

Narrated by: Silvia Montfort, Jean Vilar, Jean Deschamps, Gé...

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

La fondation du Théâtre National Populaire ajouta une dimension au théâtre français d'après-guerre, celle de la jeunesse - celle peut-être aussi, de l'enthousiasme. Du jour au lendemain, il fut admis que les héros de Corneille pouvaient, ou peu s'en faut, avoir l'âge des comédiens, et qu'entre le public et la scène devait s'établir une communion... Read more