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Mrs. Pretty and The Premier

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Arthur Adams


The Premier has decided that being married would be good for his image. He asks his stenographer for advice: (Premier) Good. Just jot me dow…

The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

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Arthur Wing Pinero


Lucas Cleeve is living in Venice with a widow, Mrs. Ebbsmith. His relatives do not accept this arrangement and come to intervene. Note that …

Lady Frederick, a Comedy in Three Acts

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W. Somerset Maugham


Lady Frederick is a comedy by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, written early in his career. The play was first seen in London in 1907…

Five Little Plays

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Alfred Sutro


British dramatist Alfred Sutro's collection contains five one act plays: "The Man in the Stalls," "A Marriage Has Been Arrang…

Every Man In His Humour

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Ben Jonson


Knowell, an old man - rumor says Shakespeare originally played this part - tries to spy upon the doings of his potentially wayward son. Mean…

Eunuchus: The Eunuch

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Terence


Another of the plays by Terence translated from the Latin by Riley. "A certain citizen of Athens had a daughter named Pamphila, and a s…

Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: "We Meet Not As We Parted," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poe…

Sweethearts

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W. S. Gilbert


Sweethearts is a comic play billed as a "dramatic contrast" in two acts by W. S. Gilbert. The play tells a sentimental and ironic …

The New York Idea

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Langdon Mitchell


I find it very hard to classify "The New York Idea" under any of the established rubrics. It is rather too extravagant to rank as …

Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 13

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William Shakespeare


This is the thirteenth collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Our readers have chosen their favourite monologues from Shakespear…

The Impostures of Scapin

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Molière


Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can make people do anything. And yet sometimes he acts in the cause of good. …

Lucian's Dialogues Volume 4: Zeus the Tragedian

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Lucian Of Samosata


Zeus, gloomy and in tragic distress, is implored by Hermes and Athena to divulge the cause of his melancholy condition; while Hera, true to …

Modern Monologues

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Marjorie Benton Cooke


The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…

At The Sign of The Greedy Pig

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Charles S. Brooks


"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlemen…

Caliban by the Yellow Sands

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Percy MacKaye


Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized …

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, …

The Lying Lover: or, The Ladies' Friendship

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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…

The Blunderer, or The Counterplots

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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…

Crossings: A Fairy Play

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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…

Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law

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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…

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