Plays
Andria: or, The Fair Andrian
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Terence
Pamphilus wants to marry a woman different than his father has chosen for him. Add in paternal scheming, death bed promises, shipwreck, and …
The Tender Husband: or The Accomplished Fools
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Richard Steele
"The Tender Husband is, as a whole, very amusing; but unfortunately a second plot—alluded to in the title—is woven into the story which…
The Inconstant
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George Farquhar
Subtitled "The Way to Win Him:, this play is placed in Paris - a change from many others of Farquhar's plays which used English setting…
Monsieur De Pourceaugnac
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Molière
'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac', acted on October 6, 1669, is nothing but a farce. But Molière excels in farce as well as in higher comedy…
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
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D. H. Lawrence
Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, apparently patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly…
A Family Man
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John Galsworthy
John Builder is a solid, middle-class Englishman. He is very domineering but finds that the women around him are insistent on living their o…
The Bores
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Molière
Moliere: "Never was any Dramatic performance so hurried as this; and it is a thing, I believe, quite new, to have a comedy planned, fin…
Madame Pepita
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Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Madame Pepita is a dressmaker in Madrid with an inherited fortune and a secret. So naturally she worries about the motivations of the suitor…
Collection : pièces en un acte & monologues 002
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Various,Julien Sermet
Ceci est une collection de pièces en un acte et de monologues en français.This is a collection of French one-act plays and mon…
Medea (Version 2)
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman play with Greek subject) of about 1000 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It was written aroun…
Heautontimorumenos; the Self-Tormentor
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Terence
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. In this one, a severe father compels his son Clinia, in lo…
Doctor Johnson: A Play
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A. Edward Newton
The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination ca…
Sir Harry Wildair
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George Farquhar
This sequel to the Jubilee [The Constant Couple, or A Trip to the Jubilee] appeared at Drury Lane in 1701, and was almost as popular as its …
Gruach
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Gordon Bottomley
Gordon Bottomley's verse drama in two scenes is a prequel to Shakespeare's Macbeth. He provides Lady Macbeth with a name - Gruach - and imag…
The Twin-Rivals
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George Farquhar
"This comedy was produced at Drury Lane on December 14, 1702. It is the most accurate of all Farquhar's productions. The plot, though i…
The "Mind The Paint" Girl
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Another Pinero play from the early 1900s. With a social message about the effects of stardom on the star as well as those that love them. &q…
Lady Huntworth's Experiment
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R. C. Carton
Lady Huntworth is in disguise and under cover as a cook. She entertains a number of men and the comedy ensues.- Summary by Michele EatonStag…
The Flying Dutchman
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Richard Wagner
The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) is a German Romantic Opera by Richard Wagner first performed in Dresden in 1843.A brig ca…
The Vortex
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Noël Coward
Noel Coward explores the darker side of the roaring twenties in this early play. It focuses on an ageing beauty who uses affairs with younge…
The Conscious Lovers
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Richard Steele
As early as 1720 Steele spoke in the Theatre of "a friend of mine" who was lately preparing a comedy according to the just laws of…