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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare · 122 pages

One night two young couples run into an enchanted forest in an attempt to escape their problems. But these four humans do not realize that the forest is filled with fairies and hobgoblins who love making mischief. When Oberon, the Fairy King, and his loyal hobgoblin servant, Puck, intervene in human affairs, the fate of these young couples is magically and hilariously transformed. Like a classic f

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 106 pages

Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirises some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play. - [*Wikipedia*][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impor

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The Rivals

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Tiffany Stern · 114 pages

A comedy of manners revolving around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval satirizes the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society.

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Barefoot in the Park

Neil Simon · 95 pages

Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their

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The Rover

Aphra Behn · 144 pages

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Leave it to Jeeves

P.G. Wodehouse · 140 pages

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Le Barbier de Séville

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais · 111 pages

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Blithe Spirit

Noel Coward · 113 pages

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw · 147 pages

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The Man Who Came to Dinner

Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman · 72 pages

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The Doctor in Spite of Himself

Moliere · 37 pages

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Banking the Billionaire

Max Monroe · 416 pages

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The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand · 225 pages

Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woma

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Queen of Babble

Meg Cabot · 290 pages

What's an American girl with a big mouth, but an equally big heart, to do? Lizzie Nichols has a problem, and it isn't that she doesn't have the slightest idea what she's going to do with her life, or that she's blowing what should be her down payment on a cute little Manhattan apartment on a trip to London to visit her long-distance boyfriend, Andrew. But what's the point of planning for the fu

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Arsenic and Old Lace

Joseph Kesselring · 110 pages

Although these words refer to Teddy Brewster in this hilarious play by Joseph Kesselring, they could have applied equally to most of the other members of the Brewster household. Teddy thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, always "charging" upstairs when he is not in the basement digging "locks for the Panama Canal." His two elderly aunts, with whom he lives, also have their own bizarre secret, for which t

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Stephen Sondheim, Larry Gelbart, Burt Shevelove · 148 pages

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a comedy set in ancient Rome, where slaves were fashionable, virgins were regarded as objects to be conquered, and eunuchs were in abundance. The basic plot consists of a slave (Pseudolus) trying to buy his freedom from his owner, Hero, who is the son of Senex (a dirty old man) and Domina (a battle axe). Luckily for Pseudolus, Hero has fallen in l

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Can You Keep a Secret?

Sophie Kinsella · 365 pages

Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets. Secrets from her mother: 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben Hur. ...From her boyfriend: 2. I'm a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor thinks. 3. I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. ...From her colleagues:

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Austenland

Shannon Hale · 208 pages

Jane Hayes's adoration of all things Jane Austen is complicating her love life. Determined to be the heroine of her own story, Jane spends her life savings on a trip to Austenland, an eccentric Austen-inspired resort, where she meets two very different gentlemen, but has a difficult time determining where fantasy ends and real life, and maybe even love, begins.

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The Pirates of Penzance

W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan · 140 pages

The Pirates of Penzance, premiered in 1879, confirmed the comic genius of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, following on the heels of their wildly successful H.M.S. Pinafore . Pirates invade the rocky coast of Cornwall in this topsy-turvy tale of love and duty, highlighted by the famous strains of "Poor Wandering One," "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General," "Oh, Is Th

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The Government Inspector

Nikolai Gogol · 105 pages

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The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays

Alan Ayckbourn · 226 pages

A comic trilogy details the amorous exploits of Norman, assistant librarian, whose one aim is to make the women in his life happy - these women being three sisters, one of them his wife. Each play stands on its own yet is interlocked with the others.

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Babe in Boyland

Jody Gehrman

Natalie, a seventeen-year-old former drama club member who now writes a relationship column for her school newspaper, decides to go undercover as a student at an all-boys boarding school so that she can figure out what guys are really like.

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Ten Big Ones

Janet Evanovich · 352 pages

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum witnesses a gang-executed robbery and police officer shooting and finds herself targeted by a California-based killer looking to claim the price that is subsequently placed on her head.

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