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By: Jerome K. Jerome | |
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Stage Land
A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of ‘Stage Land’. Dedicated to ‘that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, “the earnest student of drama” | |
The Master of Mrs. Chilvers | |
Fanny and the Servant Problem
"It is so sad when relations don't get on together." "Sadder still when they think they've got a right to trample on you, just because you happen to be an orphan and - I don't want to talk about my relations. I want to forget them. I stood them for nearly six months. I don't want to be reminded of them. I want to forget that they ever existed." She is not going to have her wish. Oh, no, not at all. A comedy. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Fanny: Devorah Allen Vernon Wetherell, Lord Bantock... | |
By: Jesse Lynch Williams (1871-1929) | |
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Why Marry?
Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will she be convinced that marriage is the ultimate sacredness of a relationship or will she hold to her perception that marriage is the basis of separating two lovers."Why Marry?" won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama. |
By: Jóhann Sigurjónsson (1880-1919) | |
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Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm |
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) | |
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Faust, Part 1
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts. It is Goethe's most famous work and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature.This first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. After a dedicatory poem and a prelude in the theatre, the actual plot begins with a prologue in Heaven and Scene 1 in Faust's study. | |
Faust — Part 1 | |
Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe | |
Egmont |
By: John Drinkwater (1882-1937) | |
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Oliver Cromwell |
By: John Fletcher (1579-1625) | |
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The Little French Lawyer A Comedy |
By: John Galsworthy (1867-1933) | |
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Four Short Plays | |
The First and the Last | |
Complete Plays of John Galsworthy | |
The Little Man | |
The Eldest Son | |
The Fugitive | |
Strife | |
A Bit O' Love | |
Loyalties | |
Skin Game
A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives in the manor house where his family has lived for generations. He has a daughter, Jill, who is in her late teens; and a wife, Amy, as well as servants and retainers. He is "old money", although his finances are at a bit of low ebb. The other family is the "nouveau riche" Hornblowers,... | |
Joy | |
The Foundations | |
The Pigeon | |
The Little Dream | |
The Mob |
By: John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) | |
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The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold A Play for a Greek Theatre |
By: John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) | |
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The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces |
By: John Leacock (1729-1802) | |
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The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant |
By: John Lydgate (1370?-1451?) | |
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Disguising at Hertford |
By: John M. Synge (1871-1909) | |
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The Playboy of the Western World | |
Riders to the Sea | |
In Shadow of the Glen | |
Deirdre of the Sorrows | |
The Well of the Saints |
By: John Milton (1608-1674) | |
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Samson Agonistes
“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time, Place and Action. Nevertheless it “never was intended for the stage” and is here declaimed by a single reader.Samson the blinded captive, in company with the Chorus of friends and countrymen, receives his visitors on their varying missions and through them his violent story is vividly recalled... |
By: John Todhunter (1839-1916) | |
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The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts |
By: John Webster (c.1580 - c.1634) | |
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The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster's bloody Jacobean tragedy exposes the decadence of the Italian court. The virtuous Duchess of Malfi, a young widow, secretly marries her steward Antonio, and is subsequently persecuted by her brothers: the sexually obsessed and eventually mad Ferdinand, and the corrupt Cardinal. | |
The White Devil
John Webster's The White Devil (1612) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy, replete with adultery, murder, ghosts, and violence. The Duke of Brachiano and Vittoria Corombona decide to kill their spouses, Isabella and Camillo, in order to be together, aided by the crafty and ambitious Flamineo, Vittoria's brother. Their actions prompt vows of revenge from Isabella's brother Francisco, the Duke of Florence, and Count Lodovico, who was secretly in love with her. The title refers to the early modern proverb that "the white devil is worse than the black," indicating the hypocrisy practiced by many of the characters in the play. |
By: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) | |
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One Day More
A one-act play. Eccentric Captain Hagberd has been waiting for years for his son to come home from the sea. He has scrimped and saved, outfitting a house for Harry to inherit upon his return, which will be in only "one day more." He has also planned that Harry will marry Bessie, the repressed maiden next door. Note: The recording was done outside, so there will be some ambient noise (airplanes, lawn mowers, birds, children... etc). |
By: Joseph Harris (1650?-1715?) | |
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The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold |
By: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1841-1885) | |
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The Peace Egg and Other tales |
By: Kalidasa | |
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Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works | |
Sakoontala or the Lost Ring An Indian Drama |
By: Kenneth McGaffrey (??-1938) | |
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The Sorrows of a Show Girl
Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the unpredictable theatrical industry and the Great White Way, the lights and glamour of Broadway. "In order to set myself right with both the public and the vast army of Sabrinas that add youth and beauty to our stage, and brilliancy and gaiety to our well known cafes, I wish to say that she is all that she should be...”- Kenneth McGaffrey |
By: Langdon Mitchell (1862-1935) | |
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The New York Idea
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 a comedy; it is much too serious in its purport, too searching in its character-delineation and too thoughtful in its wit, to be treated as a mere farce. Its title—not, perhaps, a very happy one—is explained in this saying of one of the characters: "Marry for whim and leave the rest to the divorce court—that's the New York idea of marriage." Like all the plays,... |
By: Lewis Morris (1833-1907) | |
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Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts |
By: Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) | |
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Manfred
Manfred is a dramatic poem in three acts by Lord Byron, and possibly a self confessional work. A noble, Manfred, is haunted by the memory of some unspeakable crime. In seeking for forgetfulness and oblivion, he wanders between his castle and the mountains. He has several encounters with the people who try to assist him, as well as spirits that rule nature and human destiny. The poem explores themes of morality, religion, guilt and the human condition. | |
The Island
Written late in his career, Byron's narrative poem The Island tells the famous story of the mutiny on board the Bounty, and follows the mutineers as they flee to a South Sea island, "their guilt-won Paradise." |
By: Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) | |
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Rilla of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside is the eighth book in the Anne of Green Gables series and focuses on the inspiring journey of Rilla Blythe, the youngest daughter of Anne and Gilbert, as she transforms from a carefree young girl into an enduring young woman swept into the chaos of war. Written from a female perspective, Montgomery accurately depicts a time in history, as she provides a contemporaneous account of the war and serves up the most emotional book in the series. Set during the First World War, the novel explores themes of coming of age, love, separation, and most importantly women’s roles during the war... |
By: M. M. (Mordecai Manuel) Noah (1785-1851) | |
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She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa |
By: Marion Craig Wentworth (1872-) | |
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War Brides: A Play in One Act |
By: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play |