Comedy Books

The Merry Devill of Edmonton

William Shakespeare

The 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 Galsworthy

The 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 Galsworthy

The 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 Regnard

Squire: (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 Meredith

The 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 Morton

You 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 Holcroft

Readers 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’..