Plays

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…

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…

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 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…

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 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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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