Comedy Books

Ptomaine Street - The Tale of Warble Petticoat

Carolyn Wells

Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat is a A parody on Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." On a Pittsburgh block, where three generations ago might have been heard Indian war-whoops—yes, and the n..

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

George Bernard Shaw

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short comedy by George Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending to meet the "Dark Lady", accidentally encounters Queen Elizabeth I and attempts to pe..

How He Lied to Her Husband

George Bernard Shaw

How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904.G..

The Two Noble Kinsmen

William Shakespeare

The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, first published in 1634. Set in ancient Greece during a war between Athens and Thebes, the narrativ..

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

George Bernard Shaw

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress: A Revolutionary Romancelet is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1917. The play is obviously influenced by the Russian Revolution that year. It takes ..

The Captivi and the Mostellaria

Titus Maccius Plautus

The Captivi and the Mostellaria is a Latin comedy drama translated into English by Titus Maccius Plautus, a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works..

The Doctor's Dilemma - Preface on Doctors

George Bernard Shaw

The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. It is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of..

Evening Dress

William Dean Howells

In the short comic play Evening Dress, William Dean Howells' bumbling recurring character Mr. Roberts finds himself in another ridiculous quandary. This time around, a planned evening out on the town ..