The Plain Dealer
William Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer is the Restoration comedy adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthro...
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Playing in Spirit
Derek and Colby, a basketball enthusiast, have come to an empty court to practice. The dark, deserte...
Poor Harold
Floyd Dell may have written Poor Harold in 1920, but in many ways its humor rings just as true today...
Popcorn for the Apocalypse
In the middle of an apocalyptic America, a heavy-driving movie buff and a guitar-playing popcorn mac...
The Power of Darkness
Anìsya, the second wife of a Russian peasant, succumbs to the charms of Nikíta, a laborer on her far...
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus, the fire-bringer, has been sentenced to a grim punishment by the god Zeus: he is to be c...
The Provoked Wife
Lady Brute is trapped in a loveless marriage to her drunkard husband, Sir John Brute. They married f...
Les Précieuses Ridicules
Les Précieuses Ridicules follows the misguided sentiments and affectations of two young ladies from...
Quality Street
Phoebe Throssel lives on Quality Street with her sister Susan. She has been courted by Valentine Bro...
The Real Machiavelli
The Real Machiavelli is a feminist fable about the power of love, and the love of power. The most no...
The Relapse
The Relapse was written in 1696 by John Vanbrugh as a sequel to Colley Cibber’s comedy Love’s Last S...
The Rent Day
The Rent Day is a classic example of a Victorian, working-class, agrarian melodrama. Tenant farmers...
