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Dream Play

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August Strindberg - Dream Play

A Dream Play (Swedish: Ett drömspel) was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It was first performed in Stockholm on 17 April 1907. It remains one of Strindberg's most admired and influential...

2 hours 18 minutes

Return of Peter Grimm

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489

David Belasco - Return of Peter Grimm

«Mr. Belasco has written the following account of „Peter's“ evolution: [ ] The play, „The Return of Peter Grimm,“ is an expression in dramatic form of my ideas on a subject which I have pondered over since boyhood:...

3 hours 42 minutes

Boss

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Edward Sheldon - Boss

The Boss centers on the relationship between Michael Regan, an Irish-American businessman, and Emily Griswold, an outspoken American girl bent on saving her father's business. Set during a time when unions fought for...

2 hours 40 minutes

Jean Valjean; or, The Shadow of the Law

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488

Harry Clifford Fulton - Jean Valjean; or, The Shadow of the Law

A late 19th-century stage adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in English, The Shadow of the Law dramatizes the struggles of Hugo's legendary characters: Jean Valjean, the former convict; his relentless pursuer,...

2 hours 42 minutes

Verge

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445

Susan Glaspell - Verge

This play is Glaspell’s recognition of the way in which Victorian society left some women feeling trapped in roles for which they were unsuited. Because of the play’s non-realistic speech patterns and expressionistic...

2 hours 23 minutes

Melting Pot

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Israel Zangwill - Melting Pot

Russian-Jew David Quixano has come to America after surviving a pogrom which has killed his family. He has written a symphony which embodies his vision of America as a melting pot, into which people from all the...

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Caesar and Cleopatra

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George Bernard Shaw - Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in his 1901 collection, Three Plays for...

4 hours 12 minutes

Mary Tudor

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Victor Hugo - Mary Tudor

If Queen Mary I of England wants something, you'd better not try and stop her, or else you might soon find yourself without a head! When this hot-headed young Royal's new favourite courtier, an Italian gentleman named...

2 hours 37 minutes

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There are Crimes and Crimes

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August Strindberg - There are Crimes and Crimes

Maurice, a playwright on the brink of success, feels so confident in his professional future he proposes to Jeanne, his mistress. However, upon meeting Henriette, his friend's mistress, he gets swept away by his...

2 hours 1 minute

He and She

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Rachel Crothers - He and She

A feminist drama that gained considerable critical and commercial success when it originally ran on Broadway. The play is about a husband and wife who also happen to be artists. A socially conscious battle of the...

2 hours 18 minutes

Father

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August Strindberg - Father

The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura about their daughter Bertha's future. In order to gain sole custody of her...

1 hour 44 minutes

John Gabriel Borkman

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Henrik Ibsen - John Gabriel Borkman

John Gabriel Borkman is the penultimate play of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, written in 1896. The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a...

2 hours 20 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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