Plays
The Blunderer
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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
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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
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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…
Belinda
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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…
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, …
Hecyra
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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…
Crossings
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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…
Andria
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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 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 …
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…
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
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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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
pièces en un acte & monologues
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Various,Julien Sermet and Various, Julien Sermet
Ceci est une collection de pièces en un acte et de monologues en français.This is a collection of French one-act plays and mon…
Heautontimorumenos
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Terence
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. In this one, a severe father compels his son Clinia, in lo…