Drama

From Shakepeare to Synge to Wilde to Kleist to Moliere to Ibsen to Goethe to Schiller to Gilbert and Sullivan, this CD, intended for use with Windows PCs, contains 215 plays by 47 playwrights. These plays are in plain-text format, organized for easy access. (Think of this site as our discount manufacturer's outlet -- this CD sells which sells here for $19, sells for $25 at Amazon and other stores.)

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Highlights from the table of contents:

• Anonymous -- Everyman
• Aristophanes -- The Acharnians; The Birds; The Clouds; Peace
• John Beaumont -- The Theatre of Apollo
• Georg Buchner -- Dantons Tod, Woyzeck (both in German)
• Pedro Calderon de la Barca -- Life is a Dream; The Purgatory of St. Patrick; The Wonder-Working Magician
• Anton Chekhov -- Ivanov; The Sea Gull; The Swan Song; Uncle Vanya
• William Congreve -- The Double-Dealer; The Judgement of Paris (a masque); Love for Love; The Old Bachelor;Semele; The Way of the World
• Pierre Corneille -- Polyeucte
• Thomas Dekker -- The Wonderfull Yeare
• John Dryden -- All for Love
• Euripides -- Iphigenia in Tauris
• John Gay -- The Beggar's Opera
• Gilbert and Sullivan -- Complete plays
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Egmont (English and German); Faust part 1 (English and German), part 2 (German); Geschwister (German); Goetz von Berlichingen (German); Hermann und Dorothea (English and German); Iphigenie in Tauris (German); Mitschuldigung (German); Reineke Fuchs (German); West-Oestlicher Divan (German)
• Oliver Goldsmith -- She Stoops to Conquer
• Wilhelm Hauff -- Othello (German)
• William Howells -- The Elevator; The Garotters; The Parlor-Car; The Register
• Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; The Lady from the Sea; The Master Builder; Pillars of Society; Rosmersholm; When We Dead Awaken
• Ben Jonson -- The Alchemist; Cynthia's Revels; Discoveries Made Upon Man and Matter; Epicoene; Every Man in His Humor; Every Man out of His Humor; Masque of Beauty; Masque of Blacknesse; Poetaster; Sejanus; Volpone
• Heinrich von Kleist -- Kaethchin von Heilbronn; Penthesilea; Prinz Friedrich von Homburg; Der zerbrochene Krug (all in German)
• Thomas Kyd -- The Spanish Tragedie
• D.H. Lawrence -- Touch and Go
• Gotthold Lessing -- Minna von Barnhelm, Nathan the Wise
• Christopher Marlowe -- Dr. Faustus; The Jew of Malta; The Massacre at Paris; Tamburlaine the Great Part 1 and Part 2
• Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Aria da Capo (one act)
• Moliere -- Amphritryon; L'Avare (French); The Bores; Don Garcia of Navarre; Don Juan (French); L'Etourdi (French); The Love Tiff; Le Mariage Force (French); The Middle Class Gentleman; Les Precieuses Ridicules (French); The Pretentious Young Ladies; The School for Husbands; Sganarelle (French); Tartuffe
• Eugene O'Neill -- Anna Christie; The First Man; The Hairy Ape
• Alexander Pushkin -- Boris Godunov
• Jean Baptiste Racine -- Phaedra
• Ferdinand Raimund -- Der Alpenkonig; Der gefesselte Phantasie; Maedchen aus der Feenwelt; Der Verschwender (all German)
• Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac (English and French)
• Friedrich Schiller -- Die Braut von Messina (German); Camp of Wallenstein; Death of Wallenstein; Fiesco; The Ghost-Seer; Kabale und Liebe (German); Love and Intrigue; Der Neffe als Onkel (German); Parasit (German); Piccolomini; The Robbers; Turandot (German); Die Verschoerung (German); Wallenstein's Lager; Wilhelm Tell
• William Shakespeare -- complete plays
• Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Prometheus Unbound; The Cenci; Oedipus Tyrannus; Hellas
• Mary Shelley -- Proserpine and Midas
• Richard Sheridan -- Duenna; St. Patrick's Day; School for Scandal
• Mary Sidney -- Tragedie of Antonie
• Upton Sinclair -- The Naturewoman; Prince Hagen; The Second-Story Man
• Sophocles -- Oedipus Trilogy
• August Strindberg -- Creditors; There are Crimes
• Algernon Swinburne -- Chastelard; The Count of Gandia; Rosamund
• John Synge -- The Aran Islands; Deirdre of the Sorrows; In the Shadow of the Glen; In Wicklow and West Kerry; The Playboy of the Western World; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints
• Rabindranath Tagore -- Chitra; The King and the Dark Chamber
• John Webster; The Duchess of Malfi; The Monumental Column
• Oscar Wilde -- The Duchess of Padua; The Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windemere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance

"Talking" software included on this book CD:

Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

When the rapid, automatic 10 Mbyte installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows.

When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. You can listen to samples at their site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.