Comedy Books
The Merry Devill of Edmonton
William ShakespeareThe Merry Devill of Edmonton is a comedy drama believed to have been written by William Shakespeare and is not attributed to the author as it is spurious and doubtful to attribute to the author...
A Family Man
John GalsworthyThe study of JOHN BUILDER in the provincial town of Breconridge. A panelled room wherein nothing is ever studied, except perhaps BUILDER'S face in the mirror over the fireplace. It is, however, comfor..
Windows
John GalsworthyThe MARCH'S dining-room opens through French windows on one of those gardens which seem infinite, till they are seen to be coterminous with the side walls of the house, and finite at the far end, beca..
The Unforseen Return
Jean François RegnardSquire: (entering from the street) Your servant, my friend. Ah, ladies, I am delighted to see you. You are waiting for me and that's very proper. I am the very soul of your parties, I admit. The premi..
The Sentimentalists
George MeredithThe Sentimentalists is a comedy drama written by George Meredith. One husband! The woman consenting to marriage takes but one. For her there is no widowhood. That punctuation of the sentence called de..
Betsy Baker!
John Maddison MortonYou can’t deny it. Look at the Railroads—oblige me by looking at the Railroads, with their gigantic viaducts, their stupendous aqueducts—look at the Electric Telegraph over the Straits of Menai—look a..
The Follies of a Day
Thomas HolcroftReaders are divided into two Classes; the one will allow an Author much more than he merits, and the other much less; but the principal Excellencies of The Follies of a Day are so known to be another’..