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Loyalties

John Galsworthy

Loyalties is a 1922 play by the British writer John Galsworthy. It was staged at St Martins Theatre and ran for over a year. Galsworthy described it as "the only play of mine which I was able to say, ..

Mary Stuart - A Tragedy

Friedrich Schiller

Mary Stuart is a verse play by Friedrich Schiller that depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The play consists of five acts, each divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Wei..

Hamburgische Dramaturgie

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The Hamburg Dramaturgy is a highly influential work on drama by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, written between 1767 and 1769. It was not originally conceived as a unified and systematical book, but rather ..

The Miser

Molière

The Miser is a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed on September 9, 1668, in the theatre of the Palais-Royal in Paris. ..

The Robbers

Friedrich Schiller

The Robbers is the first drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. The play was published in 1781 and premiered on 13 January 1782 in Mannheim, Germany, and was inspired by Leisewitz' earlier pla..

Swan Song

Anton Chekhov

Inspired by 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and written in a similar epistolary form, 'Lady Susan' was one of Austen's earliest finished works. In it she reveals the caustic wit and social satire of her la..

L'Avare

Molière

The Miser's original script in French is  L'Avare,  a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed on September 9, 1668, in the theatre of the Palais-Roy..

Cyrano de Bergerac (French Text)

Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. There was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of his life. The entire play is wri..