Satire

Nicholas Nickleby: A Farce in 2 Acts

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Edward Stirling


This stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel debuted in November of 1838 at the Adelphi Theater in London. Only eight installments of the story …

Bob and Ray WOR 789 March 16, 1976


BNRToast


Tuesday, March 16, 1976 Looking for Mary in a restaurant Next Episode: https://archive.org/details/BnR79003171976 0:00 Welcoming the listene…

The Cabinet Minister

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Arthur Wing Pinero


Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…

George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband

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Henri Van Laun and Molière


"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favori…

Prejudices, Second Series

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H. L. Mencken


Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…

Orlando. A Biography (version 2)

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Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

Zadig or The Book of Fate (Version 2)

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Voltaire


"there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:" -- this quote from this novel sums it up. One of Voltaire's most…

Bob and Ray WOR 783 March 08, 1976


Greybelt


"Monday, March 08, 1976", 0:00 Opening the big banner show with Webley, sounding a little blue over his handiwork, playing the org…

Bob and Ray WOR 067 June 13 1973


BNRToast


Walking the plank  Capt turns nice Wednesday  June 13  1973

A Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers

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Charles Macklin


This "Afterpiece" - a short play to follow a main production - was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard's five-act com…

The World of Fashion

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John Oxenford


This Victorian-era dramedy was adapted by playwright/critic John Oxenford from Eugene Scribe and Ernst Legouvé’s “Les doigts de f&eac…

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