Plays

The New York Idea

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Langdon Mitchell


I find it very hard to classify "The New York Idea" under any of the established rubrics. It is rather too extravagant to rank as …

Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 13

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William Shakespeare


This is the thirteenth collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Our readers have chosen their favourite monologues from Shakespear…

Modern Monologues

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Marjorie Benton Cooke


The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…

The Impostures of Scapin

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Molière


Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can make people do anything. And yet sometimes he acts in the cause of good. …

Lucian's Dialogues Volume 4: Zeus the Tragedian

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Lucian Of Samosata


Zeus, gloomy and in tragic distress, is implored by Hermes and Athena to divulge the cause of his melancholy condition; while Hera, true to …

At The Sign of The Greedy Pig

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Charles S. Brooks


"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlemen…

Caliban by the Yellow Sands

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Percy MacKaye


Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized …

The Torch-Bearers

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George Kelly


"The cold, historical fact is that at about 9:15 o’clock on the evening of August 29th, 1922, five or six hundred average New Yorkers, …

The Lying Lover: or, The Ladies' Friendship

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Richard Steele


"The spark of this play is introduced with as much agility and life as he brought with him from France, and as much humour as I could b…

The Blunderer, or The Counterplots

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Molière


A very early Moliere. From the Translator: "In this piece the plot is carried on ... by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first origina…

Crossings: A Fairy Play

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Walter De La Mare


Under the terms of a will, the Wildersham children have to relocate from the family house in the city to "Crossings" in the countr…

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…

One-Act Play Collection 016

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Various


Here, in our 16th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from Moliere to Jane Austen, from Comedy to Tragedy, all i…

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…

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…

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…

One-Act Play Collection 012

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Various


Here are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from a 1659 farce by Moliere to a 1896 play by Fuller with early LGBT content; a Gi…

Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts

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A. A. Milne


Come, join us on a lovely April afternoon in Devonshire for a breezy frolic in comedy. Milne's light-hearted romance is sure to make you chu…

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 …

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