The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
A royal from the normal world travels to the "blazing world". There she learns about the society and culture, along with scientific explanations for natural phenomena. Many of these explanations seem very wrong today, but it was a nice experiment at the time. This is a great forerunner of science fiction works and is a very entertaining read today.
People decide to break with custom and start telling people exactly how they feel. This leads to all sorts of conflict in society. It reminds me of the movie Liar Liar. The English translation is quite good, and the LA Theatre Works performance is well done. I listened to it a few times and got a little more each time. This is supposedly one of Moliere's best works. However, I think I liked his shorter plays better.
