Plays

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…

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 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 …

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 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…

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 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…

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…

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…

Collection : pièces en un acte & monologues 002

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Various,Julien Sermet and 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…

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…

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 …

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…

A Dramatic Version of Greek Myths and Hero Tales

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Fanny Amanda Comstock



This is a collection of 25 short plays, each covering a different Greek myth or tale. From the famous epics such as Theseus' journey to slay…

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…

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…

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