Today for Free Audio Friday Elizabeth is sharing her top dramatic projects from LibriVox – these are either plays, or novels that have been done as dramatic readings (with a narrator and various readers performing the different roles). Here they are, sorted by the number of downloads via the Internet Archive:
1. Bram Stoker, Dracula (dramatic reading – Elizabeth reads the role of Mina Harker).
2. William Shakespeare, Hamlet (play – Elizabeth reads Queen Gertrude).
3. William Shakespeare, Macbeth (play – Elizabeth reads Lady Macbeth).
4. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (dramatic reading – Elizabeth does the narration).
5. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (dramatic reading – Elizabeth reads Elizabeth Lavenza).
6. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (dramatic reading – Elizabeth reads the narration and the role of Jo March).
7. William Shakespeare, Othello (play – Elizabeth reads Emilia).
8. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (play – Elizabeth reads Juliet).
9. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House (play – Elizabeth performs the role of Nora Helmer).
10. Henry James, Daisy Miller (dramatic reading – Elizabeth reads Mrs. Costello).
11. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (dramatic reading – Elizabeth reads the narration and the role of Mary Crawford).
12. L. M. Montgomery, the Anne of Green Gables series (dramatic readings – Elizabeth performs Marilla Cuthbert in all four books).
13. Sophocles, Antigone (play – Elizabeth reads the title role).
14. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (play – Elizabeth reads the roles of the Chorus and the Messenger).
15. Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (dramatic reading – Elizabeth reads the role of Lucy Steele).