Plays

Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law

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Terence


Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. NOTE: the main plot elements in Hecyra are quite unaccepta…

Amphitryon

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Molière


"The history of Amphitryon and Alcmene, or rather the myth of the birth of Hercules, is certainly very old, and is to be found in the l…

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - version 2

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E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare


Adaptations of Shakespearian plays for young readers. - Summary by ShrimpPhish

The Gay Lord Quex

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Arthur Wing Pinero


Lord Quex, after a life of philandering, has decided to reform and marry. But he is not believed, particularly by the guardian of his intend…

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 Constant Couple

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George Farquhar


George Farquhar, the author of this comedy, was the son of a clergyman in the north of Ireland. He was born in the year 1678, discovered an …

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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