Audible Logo
audible, an amazon company Help
English Español
US Dollar Mexican Peso
Sign in Audiobooks Podcasts Audible Originals Latino and Hispanic voices All categories Plans & Pricing Bestsellers Coming Soon New Releases Best of the Year Best of #BookTok Plus Catalog Gifts Help Center About Audible Blog Sales & Deals Accessibility
Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature

Drama

473 titles
See all in Drama
  • Collections (433)
  • Drama (473)
  • Poetry (577)

Bestsellers

Death of a Salesman Audiobook By Arthur Miller cover art
Death of a Salesman
  • Death of a Salesman

  • By: Arthur Miller
  • Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Culp, and others
  • Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    264
  • Performance
    213
  • Story
    213

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....

  • Excellent production

  • By mike on 11-11-25

By: Arthur Miller

Faust: Parts I & II Audiobook By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe cover art
Faust: Parts I & II
  • Faust: Parts I & II

  • By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Narrated by: Jack Wynters
  • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    43
  • Performance
    33
  • Story
    33

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....

  • Fun and captivating

  • By Chrysolite Gulzaman on 04-20-25

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Julius Caesar Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Julius Caesar
  • Julius Caesar

  • A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Full Cast Dramatization
  • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    468
  • Performance
    380
  • Story
    378

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 of its definitive Folger Edition. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the...

  • good play, difficult to distinguish characters

  • By Christian R. Unger on 05-17-18

By: William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Twelfth Night
  • Twelfth Night

  • Arkangel Shakespeare
  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
  • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    256
  • Performance
    208
  • Story
    205

Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....

  • If you be not mad, be gone

  • By Darwin8u on 08-24-17

By: William Shakespeare

Hamlet Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Hamlet
  • Hamlet

  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Josh Stamberg, Stephen Collins, JoBeth Williams, and others
  • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    66
  • Performance
    53
  • Story
    53

Shakespeare’s timeless story of revenge, corruption, and murder is considered one of the greatest works in the English language....

  • One of the Best

  • By Sandra on 06-08-15

By: William Shakespeare

The Oscar Wilde Collection Audiobook By Oscar Wilde cover art
The Oscar Wilde Collection
  • The Oscar Wilde Collection

  • By: Oscar Wilde
  • Narrated by: James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, and others
  • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    405
  • Performance
    358
  • Story
    357

Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature....

  • Good Collection

  • By Anniebligh on 03-31-12

By: Oscar Wilde

Death of a Salesman Audiobook By Arthur Miller cover art
Death of a Salesman
  • Death of a Salesman

  • By: Arthur Miller
  • Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Culp, and others
  • Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    264
  • Performance
    213
  • Story
    213

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....

  • Excellent production

  • By mike on 11-11-25

By: Arthur Miller

Faust: Parts I & II Audiobook By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe cover art
Faust: Parts I & II
  • Faust: Parts I & II

  • By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Narrated by: Jack Wynters
  • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    43
  • Performance
    33
  • Story
    33

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....

  • Fun and captivating

  • By Chrysolite Gulzaman on 04-20-25

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Julius Caesar Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Julius Caesar
  • Julius Caesar

  • A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Full Cast Dramatization
  • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    468
  • Performance
    380
  • Story
    378

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 of its definitive Folger Edition. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the...

  • good play, difficult to distinguish characters

  • By Christian R. Unger on 05-17-18

By: William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Twelfth Night
  • Twelfth Night

  • Arkangel Shakespeare
  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
  • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    256
  • Performance
    208
  • Story
    205

Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....

  • If you be not mad, be gone

  • By Darwin8u on 08-24-17

By: William Shakespeare

Hamlet Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Hamlet
  • Hamlet

  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Josh Stamberg, Stephen Collins, JoBeth Williams, and others
  • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    66
  • Performance
    53
  • Story
    53

Shakespeare’s timeless story of revenge, corruption, and murder is considered one of the greatest works in the English language....

  • One of the Best

  • By Sandra on 06-08-15

By: William Shakespeare

The Oscar Wilde Collection Audiobook By Oscar Wilde cover art
The Oscar Wilde Collection
  • The Oscar Wilde Collection

  • By: Oscar Wilde
  • Narrated by: James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, and others
  • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    405
  • Performance
    358
  • Story
    357

Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature....

  • Good Collection

  • By Anniebligh on 03-31-12

By: Oscar Wilde

Dante's Paradise Audiobook By Anthony Esolen PhD cover art
Dante's Paradise
  • Dante's Paradise

  • A Study on Part III of The Divine Comedy
  • By: Anthony Esolen PhD
  • Narrated by: Anthony Esolen PhD
  • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    101
  • Performance
    87
  • Story
    87

Professor Esolen who has served as your guide through both the Inferno and Purgatory will guide you through the profound and elevated poetry of Paradise....

  • Best ever!

  • By army brat on 08-06-23

By: Anthony Esolen PhD

Macbeth Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Macbeth
  • Macbeth

  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: James Marsters, Joanne Whalley, Josh Cooke, and others
  • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    485
  • Performance
    435
  • Story
    434

Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy....

  • Might want to Read Along

  • By Syd Young on 02-03-14

By: William Shakespeare

Richard III Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Richard III
  • Richard III

  • Arkangel Shakespeare
  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: David Troughton, Saskia Wickham, Margaret Robertson, and others
  • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    108
  • Performance
    90
  • Story
    89

Brilliantly manipulative and entirely amoral, the hero-villain Richard is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles....

  • Spectacular acting

  • By Claire on 02-27-18

By: William Shakespeare

Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative Audiobook By Arnold Weinstein, The Great Courses cover art
Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
  • Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative

  • By: Arnold Weinstein, The Great Courses
  • Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein
  • Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    267
  • Performance
    228
  • Story
    228

You learn how drama makes visible the conflicts and wars of culture in ways other forms cannot manage....

  • Shockingly Good

  • By justme on 05-10-17

By: Arnold Weinstein, and others

The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized) Audiobook By Oscar Wilde cover art
The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized)
  • 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
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    1,884
  • Performance
    1,618
  • Story
    1,615

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....

  • Delightfully silly

  • By Tad Davis on 09-12-11

By: Oscar Wilde

Oedipus Rex Audiobook By Sophocles cover art
Oedipus Rex
  • Oedipus Rex

  • By: Sophocles
  • Narrated by: John H. Fehskens
  • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    40
  • Performance
    30
  • Story
    30

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....

  • NOT THE SAME AS THE BOOK

  • By Dominic on 10-10-21

By: Sophocles

The George Bernard Shaw Collection Audiobook By George Bernard Shaw cover art
The George Bernard Shaw Collection
  • The George Bernard Shaw Collection

  • By: George Bernard Shaw
  • Narrated by: Shirley Knight, Anne Heche, JoBeth Williams, and others
  • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    149
  • Performance
    125
  • Story
    127

Eight of George Bernard Shaw's most memorable plays in one splendid collection....

  • Impressive Collection of Shaw

  • By Michael on 10-04-12

By: George Bernard Shaw

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Simon Helberg, Glenne Headly, Hector Elizondo, and others
  • Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    69
  • Performance
    59
  • Story
    59

Shakespeare combined his love of theater with Greek mythology and the supernatural to create what is arguably his most playfully imaginative work....

  • A very Americanized production

  • By Peter Giordano on 08-05-18

By: William Shakespeare

Antigone Audiobook By Sophocles cover art
Antigone
  • Antigone

  • By: Sophocles
  • Narrated by: John Fehskens
  • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    49
  • Performance
    42
  • Story
    39

Antigone, daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, faces great challenges when she must arrange a formal burial for her brother, Polynices....

  • classic humor of suicide and murder

  • By Paul Dion Brooks on 12-26-19

By: Sophocles

Oedipus the King Audiobook By Sophocles cover art
Oedipus the King
  • Oedipus the King

  • By: Sophocles
  • Narrated by: full cast
  • Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    357
  • Performance
    301
  • Story
    298

In Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus discovers that he has been caught in his terrible destiny....

  • Superb

  • By Mark on 11-24-09

By: Sophocles

The Importance of Being Earnest Audiobook By Oscar Wilde cover art
The Importance of Being Earnest
  • The Importance of Being Earnest

  • A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
  • By: Oscar Wilde
  • Narrated by: Michael Ward
  • Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    34
  • Performance
    24
  • Story
    24

A classic comedy by the great Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is his short farce consisting of numerous noms de plume....

  • Awesome!!

  • By Nina Gee on 09-23-25

By: Oscar Wilde

Walt Whitman Poetry Collection Audiobook By Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing cover art
Walt Whitman Poetry Collection
  • Walt Whitman Poetry Collection

  • Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and a Complete Biography of Walt Whitman
  • By: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing
  • Narrated by: Tom Chandler
  • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    54
  • Performance
    53
  • Story
    52

Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....

  • Tremendous Value!

  • By Patrick on 04-07-22

By: Walt Whitman, and others

Prometheus Bound Audiobook By Aeschylus, E.H. Plumptre cover art
Prometheus Bound
  • Prometheus Bound

  • By: Aeschylus, E.H. Plumptre
  • Narrated by: Robin Field
  • Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    132
  • Performance
    108
  • Story
    110

When a jealous Zeus discovers that the compassionate Titan, Prometheus, has introduced the gift of fire to liberate mere mortals from oppression and servitude, he has Prometheus bound to a rocky prison in the Scythian desert, where the god discloses the reason for his punishment – And in one...

  • A one-man show

  • By Tad on 12-20-10

By: Aeschylus, and others

Richard III Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Richard III
  • Richard III

  • A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre
  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Full Cast Dramatization
  • Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    110
  • Performance
    89
  • Story
    88

The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings Richard III to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition. In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with...

  • Need

  • By Amazon Customer on 10-20-17

By: William Shakespeare

Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection Audiobook By Sophocles cover art
Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5
  • Performance
    3
  • Story
    3

A collection of full-cast dramatisations of Sophocles’ finest Greek tragedies One of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during his 60-year career, though only seven survive today. The most famous of these are the Theban Plays, all three of...

  • Highly Recommended

  • By lgoslnf on 02-10-25

By: Sophocles

Timon of Athens Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Timon of Athens
  • Timon of Athens

  • Arkangel Shakespeare
  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Alan Howard, Norman Rodway, Damian Lewis
  • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    53
  • Performance
    46
  • Story
    44

This controversial play follows the declining fortunes of a man of extravagant contradictions....

  • Here lies a wretched corse of wretched soul bereft

  • By Darwin8u on 11-01-17

By: William Shakespeare

Falstaff Audiobook By Harold Bloom cover art
Falstaff
  • Falstaff

  • Give Me Life
  • By: Harold Bloom
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    43
  • Performance
    39
  • Story
    40

Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom....

  • Falstaff brooks no rebuttal.

  • By Darwin8u on 02-06-20

By: Harold Bloom

The Oresteia Audiobook By Aeschylus, Yuri Rasovsky - adaptation from translation, Ian Johnston - translator cover art
The Oresteia
  • The Oresteia

  • By: Aeschylus, Yuri Rasovsky - adaptation from translation, Ian Johnston - translator
  • Narrated by: full cast
  • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    379
  • Performance
    293
  • Story
    294

In The Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos....

  • Great production, Ian Johnston translation

  • By Tad Davis on 12-09-08

By: Aeschylus, and others

The Noël Coward Collection Audiobook By Noël Coward cover art
The Noël Coward Collection
  • The Noël Coward Collection

  • By: Noël Coward
  • Narrated by: Annette Bening, Joe Mantegna, Eric Stoltz, and others
  • Length: 9 hrs
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    138
  • Performance
    116
  • Story
    118

Six phenomenally sophisticated Noël Coward comedies: Fallen Angels, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter....

  • Two great plays and a bunch that aren't bad

  • By Michael on 12-27-12

By: Noël Coward

Antigone Audiobook By Jean Anouilh cover art
Antigone
  • Antigone

  • By: Jean Anouilh
  • Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel, Full Cast
  • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    132
  • Performance
    102
  • Story
    102

The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon....

  • Antigone

  • By Melissa on 04-18-08

By: Jean Anouilh

Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized) Audiobook By Jane Austen cover art
Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized)
  • Pride and Prejudice (Dramatized)

  • By: Jane Austen
  • Narrated by: Kate Burton, Miriam Margolyes, Kevin Theis, and others
  • Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    138
  • Performance
    108
  • Story
    110

Jane Austen's classic romantic comedy is the sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off....

  • A Cliff's Notes P & P

  • By Joseph R on 09-06-09

By: Jane Austen

Julius Caesar Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Julius Caesar
  • Julius Caesar

  • By: William Shakespeare
  • Narrated by: Andrew Buchan, Sean Barrett
  • Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,502
  • Performance
    1,344
  • Story
    1,344

Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s most compelling Roman plays. The plot against Caesar and the infamous assassination scene make for unforgettable listening....

  • The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars

  • By David on 04-05-14

By: William Shakespeare

Tartuffe Audiobook By Molière, Richard Wilbur - translator cover art
Tartuffe
  • Tartuffe

  • By: Molière, Richard Wilbur - translator
  • Narrated by: Brian Bedford, JB Blanc, Daniel Blinkoff, and others
  • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    207
  • Performance
    178
  • Story
    180

Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church....

  • Great!

  • By Kevin Pablo on 03-01-17

By: Molière, and others

The Modern Scholar: Greek Drama: Tragedy and Comedy Audiobook By Peter Meineck cover art
The Modern Scholar: Greek Drama: Tragedy and Comedy
  • The Modern Scholar: Greek Drama: Tragedy and Comedy

  • By: Peter Meineck
  • Narrated by: Peter Meineck
  • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    78
  • Performance
    56
  • Story
    59

The plays of one ancient city 2,500 years ago by just four playwrights have had a profound effect on the development of all subsequent Western drama, not only on the theatrical stage, but on opera, film, television, stand-up comedy, and dance - in fact, most, if not all, of the live arts owe a...

  • Outstanding.

  • By entropent on 03-03-09

By: Peter Meineck

© Copyright 1997 - 2026 Audible Inc. About Audible Careers Conditions of Use Privacy Notice Interest-Based Ads License Cookies Your ads privacy choices United States (English)