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By: Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) | |
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Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress | |
O'Flaherty V.C. : a recruiting pamphlet |
By: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910) | |
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Three Dramas | |
By: Bret Harte (1836-1902) | |
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The Queen of the Pirate Isle |
By: Bronson Howard (1842-1908) | |
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The Autobiography of a Play Papers on Play-Making, II |
By: BS Murthy | |
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Onto the Stage - Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays
Voice Over: Under the British Raj in India, the self-indulging Nizams of Hyderabad abdicated the administration of their vast principality to doralu, the village heads, letting them turn the areas under their domain into their personal fiefdoms. While the successive Nizams were obsessed with building palaces and acquiring jewelry, the village heads succeeded in ushering in an oppressive era of tyrannical order. Acting as loose cannon from their palatial houses called gadis, the doralu succeeded in foisting an inimical feudal order upon the downtrodden dalits... |
By: Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) | |
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Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts |
By: Charles Goddard (1879-1951) | |
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The Ghost Breaker A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts |
By: Charles Lamb | |
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Mr. H
Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the characters are skilfully drawn and the sharp observations of contemporary fashion do much to divert the listener from the weakness of the central theme. More a comedy of manners rather than a true farce, this short play is best enjoyed as a gentle romp through the eccentricities of the Regency period. |
By: Charles Macklin (1697?-1797) | |
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The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir |
By: Charles Mair (1838-1927) | |
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Tecumseh : a Drama |
By: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) | |
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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, normally known simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. | |
The Jew of Malta
Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own untimely death. The Jew of Malta (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean... | |
Tamburlaine the Great
Tamburlaine the Great is the name of a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur 'the lame'. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a turning away from the clumsy language and loose plotting of the earlier Tudor dramatists, and a new interest in fresh and vivid language, memorable action, and intellectual complexity. Along with Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, it may be considered the first popular success of London's public stage... | |
Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 version)
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. "No Elizabethan play outside the Shakespeare canon has raised more controversy than Doctor Faustus. There is no agreement concerning the nature of the text and the date of composition... | |
Edward II
Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy focuses on the downfall of King Edward II, whose love for his favorite courtier, Piers Gaveston, leads to rebellion. | |
Massacre at Paris |
By: Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham (1830-1916) | |
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Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas |
By: Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) | |
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The Girl with the Green Eyes A Play in Four Acts | |
The Climbers A Play in Four Acts |
By: Constance D'Arcy Mackay (1887?-1966) | |
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Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People |
By: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | |
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Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, apparently patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. - Summary by Michele Eaton Cast List: Stage Directions: Scarbo Jack: silverquill Clara: Dtcastid Blackmore: MrsHand Mrs Holroyd: EltonTheSnowman Holroyd: alanmapstone Minnie: shreyasethi Grandmother: Availle Manager: ToddHW Rigley: alanmapstone First Bearer: Salvationist Laura: LaurenEmma3 Second Bearer: ChuckW |
By: David Belasco (1853-1931) | |
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Return of Peter Grimm |
By: Dudley H. (Dudley Howe) Miles (1881-) | |
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How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou and Zola |
By: Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) | |
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L'Aiglon | |
The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts |
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) | |
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Aria da Capo | |
The Lamp and the Bell |
By: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1878-1957) | |
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Plays of Near & Far | |
If: a play in four acts |
By: Edward Young (1683-1765) | |
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The Revenge A Tragedy |
By: Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) | |
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Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts |
By: Eugène Brieux (1858-1932) | |
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Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux |
By: Eugene O'Neill | |
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Anna Christie
Eugene O'Neill's drama Anna Christie was first produced on Broadway in 1921 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. It focuses on three main characters: Chris Christopherson, a Swedish captain of a coal barge and longtime seaman, his daughter Anna, who has grown up separated from her father on a Minnesota farm, and Mat Burke, an Irish stoker who works on steamships. At the beginning of the play Chris and Anna are reunited after fifteen years apart. Anna comes to live on her father's coal barge, but hides the secret of her past from him. When she meets Mat after an accident in the fog, they almost immediately fall in love - but Anna finds that forging a new future will not be easy. | |
The Hairy Ape | |
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays | |
The First Man | |
The Straw |
By: Eugene Walter (1874-1941) | |
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The Easiest Way Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 |
By: Euripides (480-406 BC) | |
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The Bacchae
This tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) for refusing to worship him. | |
The Trojan Women
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon discussing ways to punish the Greek armies because they condoned Ajax the Lesser for dragging Cassandra away from Athena's temple. What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out additional deaths and divide their shares of women. | |
Medea
Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the sorceress who returned with him to Corinth and had two sons with him. As the play opens, Jason plans to marry the daughter of King Creon, and the lovesick Medea plots how to take her revenge. |
By: Florence Holbrook (1860-1932) | |
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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: Frances Browne (1816-1879) | |
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Granny's Wonderful Chair
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book of fairy stories and has been translated into many languages. This work, read as a child by Frances Hodgson Burnett, inspired the writings of Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories |
By: Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) | |
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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: Frank Sidgwick (1879-1939) | |
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The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' |
By: Frank Wedekind | |
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The Awakening of Spring
The Awakening of Spring is the German dramatist Frank Wedekind's first major play and a seminal work in the modern history of theatre. It is the source material for the contemporary rock musical Spring Awakening. The play criticises the sexually-oppressive culture of fin de siècle Germany and offers a vivid dramatisation of the erotic fantasies that it breeds. Due to the nature of its content, the play has often been banned. | |
Pandora's Box | |
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: Frederick Peterson (1859-1938) | |
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The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays |
By: Frederick S. (Frederick Samuel) Boas (1862-1957) | |
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The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge |
By: Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) | |
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Mary Stuart
Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her potential claim on the English throne. The action of the play revolves around an attempt to rescue Mary from prison and Elizabeth's indecision over whether or not to have her executed. The 1801 translation is by Joseph Mellish, a friend of Schiller's. | |
The Robbers | |
Love and Intrigue
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but both their fathers tell them to end their affair. The President instead wants to expand his own influence by marrying Ferdinand to Lady Milford, the duke's mistress, but Ferdinand rebels against his father's plan and tries to persuade Luise to elope with him. | |
Don Carlos | |
Maid of Orleans | |
Wilhelm Tell | |
The Death of Wallenstein | |
The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy | |
The Piccolomini |