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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Thomas Middleton, Alan Brissenden · 144 pages

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Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare · 214 pages

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The Alchemist

Ben Jonson · 208 pages

First performed in 1610, The Alchemist is one of Ben Jonson’s greatest comedies. Written for the King’s Men—the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged—it was first performed in Oxford because the playhouses in London were closed due to the plague. It was an immediate success and has remained a popular staple ever since. The play centers around a con man, his female accomplice, and a roguis

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Tom Stoppard · 126 pages

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw · 147 pages

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Oscar Wilde · 216 pages

Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.

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The Duchess Of Malfi

John Webster · 272 pages

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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, Parts 1-2

Christopher Marlowe · 544 pages

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The Roaring Girl

Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton · 192 pages

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Mary Stuart

Friedrich Schiller · 128 pages

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The Country Wife

William Wycherley · 160 pages

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Summer's Last Will and Testament

Thomas Nashe · 79 pages

This early work by Thomas Nashe was originally published in 1600 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' is an Elizabethan era stage play that broke new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama. Thomas Nashe was born in November 1567. He was an English Elizabethan Pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist, but little

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My Fair Lady

Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe · 128 pages

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The Rover

Aphra Behn · 144 pages

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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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King of Shadows

Susan Cooper · 186 pages

While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.

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The Shakespeare Stealer

Gary L. Blackwood · 216 pages

Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, vill

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'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford · 110 pages

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The Servant of Two Masters

Carlo Goldoni · 128 pages

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The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht · 126 pages

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The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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