Books: What to Know

Plays Without the Seating Chart

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

The library

1,670 plays & drama

Bonamy Dobrée · play

The story in one page

Titus Andronicus

A general sacrifices a prisoner's son. The queen decides this requires several dozen sequels.

William Shakespeare · play

To arms for liberty: A pageant of the war for schools and societies

Catherine T. Bryce · play

Tommy's Thanksgiving dinner

Mary Taylor Cornish · play

Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts

D. H. Lawrence · play

Tragedies of sex

Frank Wedekind · play

Ashley Horace Thorndike · play

The story in one page

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

A king forgets his wife, a cloud delivers a letter, and a solar dynasty conquers heaven across eight Sanskrit classics.

Kālidāsa · collection

Trelawny of The "Wells": A Comedietta in Four Acts

Arthur Wing Pinero · play

Trial of John Jasper, lay precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the murder of Edwin Drood, engineer

Dickens Fellowship · play

Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts

Richard Wagner · play

The story in one page

Troilus and Cressida

A Trojan prince falls for a traitor’s daughter while legendary heroes bicker in the mud over a seven-year stalemate.

William Shakespeare · play

Tudor school-boy life: the dialogues of Juan Luis Vives

Juan Luis Vives · play

Turandot, Princess of China: A Chinoiserie in Three Acts

Carlo Gozzi · play

Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx

Friedrich Schiller · play

Turkish Literature; Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred Traditions

Epiphanius Wilson · collection

The story in one page

A woman disguises herself as a man, and then everyone falls in love with the wrong person.

William Shakespeare · play

Twice Killed: A Farce in One Act

John Oxenford · play

Two Dramatizations from Vergil: I. Dido—the Phœnecian Queen; II. The Fall of Troy

Two Dyaloges (c. 1549)

Desiderius Erasmus · play

The story in one page

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two best friends move to Milan, where one immediately decides to steal the other's girlfriend.

William Shakespeare · play

Two Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama

Bret Harte · play

John G. Neihardt · play

Two plays for dancers

W. B. Yeats · play

Two Slatterns and a King: A Moral Interlude

Edna St. Vincent Millay · play

Two Tragedies of Seneca: Medea and The Daughters of Troy

Lucius Annaeus Seneca · play

Uncle Sam's Right Arm: A Patriotic Exercise

Effa E. Preston · play

Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov · play

Under a Veil: A Comedietta in One Act

Randal H. Sir Roberts · play

Shepherd Knapp · play

Vain Fortune: A Novel

George Moore · play

Valentine and Orson: A Romantic Melo-Drame

Thomas Dibdin · play

Edwin Arlington Robinson · play

Vandyke Brown: A Farce in One Act

Adolphus Charles Troughton · play

Vautrin: A Drama in Five Acts

Honoré de Balzac · play

Venice Preserved: A Tragedy

Thomas Otway · play

Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts

Thomas Otway · play

Vera; Or, The Nihilists

Oscar Wilde · play

Virginia: A Tragedy, and Other Poems

Marion Forster Gilmore · play

Visibility—Zero

Myron M. Stearns · play

Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Mrs. Jameson · collection

Volpone; Or, The Fox

Ben Jonson · play

Vondel's Lucifer

Joost van den Vondel · play

Vortigern; an historical play

W. H. Ireland · play

Votes for Women: A Play in Three Acts

Elizabeth Robins · play

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama

George Ainslie Hight · play

Waiting for an Omnibus in the Lowther Arcade on a Rainy Day: A Farce, in One Act

John Maddison Morton · collection

Wallenstein's Camp: A Play

Friedrich Schiller · play