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By: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

Book cover Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play

By: Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)

Book cover Pandora's Box
Book cover Earth Spirit

Earth Spirit (1895) (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the second is Pandora's Box [1904]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". Together with Pandora's Box, Wedekind's play formed the basis for the silent film Pandora's Box (1929) starring Louise Brooks and the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937). The eponymous "earth spirit" of this play is Lulu, who Wedekind described as a woman "created to stir up great disaster...

By: George Farquhar (1677-1707)

Book cover Recruiting Officer

By: Florence Holbrook (1860-1932)

Book cover Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades

Despite the title's bland sounding name, this book is a charming collection of 16 plays for children. These little plays—well-known stories done into dialogue—were written for children who like to imagine themselves living with their favorite characters in forest, in palace, or in fairyland. Included are Cinderella, Robin Hood, William Tell, Hansel and Gretel and many more.

By: Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)

Book cover The Spanish Tragedie

By: Thomas Dixon (1864-1946)

Book cover A Man of the People A Drama of Abraham Lincoln

By: Frank Sidgwick (1879-1939)

Book cover The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'

By: Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)

Book cover The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts
Book cover Three Plays Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing
Book cover De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts

By: Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont The Maid's Tragedy

Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (first published 1619) is a sensational Jacobean sex tragedy. When gentleman soldier Melantius returns to Rhodes, he finds his dear friend Amintor is recently married - but not to his troth-plight love Aspatia (the maid of the title). Instead, the King has arranged a match between Amintor and Melantius' sister, the beautiful Evadne. On his wedding night, Amintor finds that his new wife has married him under false pretenses - and this unleashes a torrent of dire consequences, sexual, emotional, and ultimately political.

By: Sophie May (1833-1906)

Book cover Prudy Keeping House

By: Paul Carus (1852-1919)

Book cover The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes

By: Walter Ben Hare (1880-1950)

The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays by Walter Ben Hare The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays

By: William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

Book cover Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson

By: Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

Book cover The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts

By: Edward Young (1683-1765)

Book cover The Revenge A Tragedy

By: Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806)

Book cover Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts

By: David Belasco (1853-1931)

Book cover Return of Peter Grimm

By: Hannah More (1745-1833)

Book cover Percy A Tragedy

By: John Drinkwater (1882-1937)

Book cover Oliver Cromwell

By: Shepherd Knapp

Book cover The Christmas Dinner
Book cover Down the Chimney
Book cover Up the Chimney

By: Augusta Stevenson (1869-1976)

Book cover Children's Classics in Dramatic Form

By: Thomas Otway (1652-1685)

Book cover Venice Preserved A Tragedy in Five Acts

By: Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964)

Book cover Makers of Madness A Play in One Act and Three Scenes

By: Jean Lee Hunt

Book cover A Catalogue of Play Equipment

By: Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Book cover Count Julian
Book cover Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk

By: James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)

Book cover Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts

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