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Plays Without the Seating Chart

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

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1,670 plays & drama

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 2, 1890

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 6, 1890

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 26, September 24, 1870

Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870

Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870

Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870

Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870.

The story in one page

A professor bets he can turn a flower girl into a duchess, then forgets she's human.

Bernard Shaw · play

Quality Street: A Comedy

J. M. Barrie · play

Queen Mary; and, Harold

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson · play

The story in one page

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

A factory director tries to build a human utopia without work, but his synthetic laborers eventually demand a promotion to masters.

Karel Čapek · play

Rachel: A Play in Three Acts

Angelina Weld Grimké · play

Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve

Alfred Noyes · play

Rada: A Drama of War in One Act

Alfred Noyes · play

Read-Aloud Plays

Horace Holley · play

Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others

John Stephen Farmer · play

Rabindranath Tagore · play

Red Paint at Oxford: Sketches

Redemption and two other plays

Leo graf Tolstoy · play

Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare

Charles Mills Gayley · collection

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1765-1819

Montrose Jonas Moses · play

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911:

Montrose Jonas Moses · reference

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini

George H. Boker · play

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: In Mizzoura

Augustus Thomas · collection

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76

Oliver Bell Bunce · play

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy

Steele MacKaye · play

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van

Charles Burke · collection

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The Moth and the Flame

Clyde Fitch · play

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell · play

Retained for the Defence: A Farce, in One Act

John Oxenford · play

Richard Sir Steele · play

The story in one page

Riders to the Sea

An Irish mother loses her last son to the waves after a spectral rider signals the end of her family line.

J. M. Synge · play

Robert Burns: A play

John Drinkwater · play

Robert E. Lee: A Story and a Play

Ruth Hill · play

Robert Greene: [Six Plays]

Robert Greene · play

E. F. Benson · play

Roister Doister

Nicholas Udall · play

The story in one page

Romeo and Juliet

Two teenagers meet at a party, marry by dawn, and die by Thursday.

William Shakespeare · play

Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards: A Tragedy

Algernon Charles Swinburne · play

Roses: Four One-Act Plays

Hermann Sudermann · play