Plays
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 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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - version 2
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E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare
Adaptations of Shakespearian plays for young readers. - Summary by ShrimpPhish
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 …
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…