Category Archives: Plays
Psyche
Author(s): Molière This is a very different Moliere, not the usual satire of everyday life....
Crossings: A Fairy Play
Author(s): Walter De la Mare Under the terms of a will, the Wildersham children have...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Author(s): Jessie Braham White The classic story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs, now...
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
Author(s): Maurice Maeterlinck The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck....
Don Juan In Hell
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2)...
Faust II
Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a...
The Ghost Sonata
Author(s): August Strindberg The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten) is a play in three acts by Swedish...
Children’s Classics in Dramatic Form
Author(s): Augusta Stevenson This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop,...
Dramatic Version of Greek Myths and Hero Tales
Author(s): Fanny Amanda Comstock This is a collection of 25 short plays, each covering a...
Alice in Wonderland (Drama)
Author(s): Lewis CarrollAlice Gerstenberg A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through...
Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades
Author(s): Florence Holbrook Despite the title’s bland sounding name, this book is a charming collection...
Woman is a Weathercock
Author(s): Nathan Field A Woman is a Weathercock is the first play by the former...
Two Pastorals: an Heroic and a Comic
Author(s): Molière Moliere, on the way to the Ballet of the Muses, a court festival,...
Which is the Man?
Author(s): Hannah Cowley “Oh! Lord Sparkle! – Who can resist the gay, the elegant, the...
Troilus and Cressida
Author(s): William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida is Shakespeare’s “problem” play about the Trojan War. As...
Wilhelm Tell – Schauspiel
Author(s): Friedrich Schiller Wilhelm Tell ist das letzte fertiggestellte Drama Friedrich von Schillers. Er schloss...
Woman of No Importance
Author(s): Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar...
Wappin’ Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates
Author(s): Charles S. Brooks We had hoped that our drama’s scene might lie on a...
Twelfth Night (version 3)
Mistaken identity, performative grief, and unrequited longing collide on the shores of Illyria in one...
Why Marry?
Long before mid-century drama began picking apart the domestic American ideal, Jesse Lynch Williams crafted...
Wives on Strike
Author(s): Lillian Sutton Pelée The “Wives’ Welfare Club” is meeting together so they may air...
Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money
Author(s): Titus Maccius Plautus Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection – all...
Wife Without A Smile
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero Mr. Rippingill can not get his wife to relax her stony...
Trelawny of the Wells
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero A theater, various actors and actresses, their admirers, financial backers, etc....
Woodbarrow Farm
Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome Some confusion over a farm and an unexpected inheritance, with expectations...
Treasure Island: A Play in 4 Acts
Author(s): Jules Eckert Goodman Arrgh and Shiver Me Timbers! Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver!...
Woman’s Way
Author(s): Thompson Buchanan “A Woman’s Way” belongs to a class of comedy curiously rare on...
Vera; or the Nihilists
Author(s): Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is...
Truculentus; The Churl
Author(s): Titus Maccius Plautus “Phronesium, a Courtesan, has three admirers – Dinarchus, a dissipated young...
Twelfth Night
Identity fluidly shifts across the shores of Illyria as grief and desire drive a cast...