Category Archives: Plays
Misalliance
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw Misalliance, a 1910 play by George Bernard Shaw, is an ironic...
Quality Street
Author(s): J. M. Barrie Two sisters living on Quality Street set up and run a...
Mary Tudor
Author(s): Victor Hugo If Queen Mary I of England wants something, you’d better not try...
One-Act Play Collection 013
Author(s): Various Here, in our 13th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment....
One-Act Play Collection 008
Short-form drama offers an unmatched window into early 20th-century theatrical experimentation, packing intense existential, satirical,...
Henry V
Author(s): William Shakespeare After the turmoil and uncertainty of Henry IV a new era appears...
Hindle Wakes
Author(s): Stanley Houghton Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle’s richest factory owner, meets Fanny...
Love and a Bottle
Author(s): George Farquhar This play was produced in 1698 at Drury Lane Theatre. From the...
Henry VI, Part 3
Author(s): William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 3 or The Third Part of Henry the Sixt...
Henry VIII
Author(s): William Shakespeare This is Shakespeare’s dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and...
Keep Your Own Secret
Author(s): Pedro Calderón de la Barca “Love and perseverance will at last vanquish every obstacle....
It Pays To Advertise
Author(s): Roi Cooper MegrueWalter Hackett An early screwball comedy, the plot revolves around a Soap...
If I Had a Father
Author(s): George MacDonald Arthur Gervaise, a London sculptor, learns too late of his love for...
King Henry IV, Part 2
Author(s): William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed...
Love Chase
Author(s): James Sheridan Knowles In this romantic comedy from 1837, three sets of mismatched lovers...
Love for Love
Author(s): William Congreve “We have such a gallery, if not of great characters, at any...
Katherine and Petruchio
Author(s): David Garrick This script is renowned 18th century actor/director David Garrick’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s...
Lightnin’
Author(s): Winchell SmithFrank Bacon A Western from 1918, that ran over a 1000 shows on...
Heartbreak House
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father,...
Lady Frederick, a Comedy in Three Acts
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham Lady Frederick is a comedy by the British writer W. Somerset...
Lucian’s Dialogues Volume 4: Zeus the Tragedian
Author(s): Lucian of Samosata Zeus, gloomy and in tragic distress, is implored by Hermes and...
Jane Shore: A Tragedy
Author(s): Nicholas Rowe Covering some of the plot of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Jane Shore focuses...
Jephtha
Author(s): Thomas Morell The Reverend Thomas Morell wrote this libretto to be set to music...
Lady Bountiful
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero “The story of “Lady Bountiful” is, I venture to think, human...
Henry VI
Author(s): William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed...
Little Eyolf (Mencken Translation)
Author(s): Henrik Ibsen One of the four profound plays of Ibsen’s late period (along with...
Life is a Dream
Author(s): Pedro Calderón de la Barca Of all Calderon’s works, “Life is a Dream” may...
Heautontimorumenos; the Self-Tormentor
Author(s): Terence Terence’s six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a...
Love’s Labour’s Lost (version 2)
Author(s): William Shakespeare Temptations and infatuations abound in this sparklingly linguistic early comedy from Shakespeare,...
Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)
Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A dramatised version of the Classical Greek legend of Iphigenia...