Category Archives: Plays
Giles Corey of the Salem Farms
Author(s): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Giles Corey was an English-born farmer who was “pressed to death”...
Dido and Aeneas
Author(s): Nahum Tate Nahum Tate wrote this libretto to be set to music by Henry...
Christopher Junior
Author(s): Madeleine Lucette Ryley Having accidentally placed himself in a compromising situation, Christopher Jedbury, Jr....
Cistellaria; or, The Casket
Author(s): Titus Maccius Plautus The casket is a small box with recognition tokens in it...
Der Bär
Author(s): Anton Tschechow Der Bär ist ein Theaterstück in einem Akt von Anton Tschechow, von...
Cymbeline
Author(s): William Shakespeare Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare’s late romances, which (like The Tempest and...
Country Mouse
Author(s): Arthur Law You could be forgiven upon reading that title, not to mention auditing...
Galahad Jones
Author(s): Arthur Adams Dramatised by Australian playwright Arthur Adams from his book of the same...
Every Man Out of His Humour
Author(s): Ben Jonson Every Man Out of His Humour followed Jonson’s play Every Man In...
Hamilton
Author(s): Mary P HamlinGeorge Arliss One hundred years before the current hit musical Hamilton, Mary...
Die Jungfrau von Orleans
Author(s): Friedrich Schiller Die Jungfrau von Orleans ist ein Drama von Friedrich Schiller. Es nimmt...
Essays on Art
Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms – Goethe’s thoughts were...
Comic Tragedies
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott Fans of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will remember the elaborate...
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua – Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel
Author(s): Friedrich von Schiller Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua ist das zweite vollendete Drama...
Doctor Johnson: A Play
Reconstructing the brilliant conversational world of eighteenth-century London literary society requires more than factual accuracy;...
All’s Well That Ends Well
Author(s): William Shakespeare Despite its optimistic title, Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well has often...
Anna Christie
Author(s): Eugene O’Neill Eugene O’Neill’s drama Anna Christie was first produced on Broadway in 1921...
Arms and the Man
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw...
Broken Hearts
Author(s): W. S. Gilbert Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame also wrote non-musical plays without...
As You Like It
Author(s): William Shakespeare One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a...
Bernice
Author(s): Susan Glaspell The death of a larger than life woman leaves behind an equally...
Charley’s Aunt
Author(s): Brandon Thomas The girlfriends are coming to visit the chaps at college, but of...
Alice Sit-by-the-Fire
Author(s): J. M. Barrie “The ever-delightful classic … produced by Charles Frohman at the Criterion...
Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts
Author(s): A. A. Milne Come, join us on a lovely April afternoon in Devonshire for...
As You Like It (version 3)
Author(s): William Shakespeare Long theorized to be one of Shakespeare’s mid-career works, As You Like...
Ann
Author(s): Lechmere Worrall Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend,...
Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure
Paranoia and avarice have rarely received a more sharp-witted comedic treatment than in classical Roman...
Amphitryon; or, Jupiter in Disguise
Author(s): Titus Maccius Plautus The gods Jupiter and Mercury take the forms of Amphitryon and...
Andria: or, The Fair Andrian
Author(s): Terence Pamphilus wants to marry a woman different than his father has chosen for...
Beaux Stratagem
Author(s): George Farquhar Two gentlemen of broken fortune, disguised as master and servant, and thinking...