Category Archives: Plays

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)

Author(s): William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, or What You Wil is a comedy by William Shakespeare,...

Why Marry?

Author(s): Jesse Lynch Williams Why Marry? is a comedy, which “tells the truth about marriage”....

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

Author(s): William Shakespeare Hidden and mistaken identities, requited and unrequited loves, pranks and jokes abound...

Who’s the Dupe?

Author(s): Hannah Cowley A short farce. Scholar meets woman. “Plato! Aristotle! Zeno! I abjure ye....

Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are

Author(s): Elizabeth Inchbald This Restoration-Era comedy of manners satirizes the hypocrisy, gamesmanship, and imbalance of...