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The Follies of a Day
by Thomas HolcroftThe Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of FigaroA Comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais.An Author’s Thanks to the World at large may be seen under two very different Aspects: For, to thank the Public is to tell the Public he is successful; which, supposing it true, it would be str..
The Grand Cham's Diamond - A Play in One Act
by Allan MonkhouseThe Grand Cham's Diamond: A Play in One Act is an one act English drama written by Allan Monkhouse.A sitting-room in a small house in a London suburb. The window is in the wall to the left of the spectator and the door in the right half of the back wall. The furniture is ordinary. On the chimneypiece, to the right of the spectator, is a clock...
Lexington
by Sidney HowardThe aim of this play is to represent the impulse and the progress of civil liberty in this country since the commencement of the War for Independence. The intention is never literal. In spite of a certain actuality in the presentation of the incidents of “The Glorious Morning” at Lexington, the play must always be considered and produced as an abst..
Rachel - A Play in Three Acts
by Angelina Weld GrimkéThe scene is a room scrupulously neat and clean and plainly furnished. The walls are painted green, the woodwork, white. In the rear at the left an open doorway leads into a hall. Its bare, green wall and white baseboard are all that can be seen of it. It leads into the other rooms of the flat. In the centre of the rear wall of the room is a window..
Waiting for an Omnibus in the Lowther Arcade on a Rainy Day
by John Maddison MortonInterior of the Lowther Arcade. The Strand Entrance supposed to be at L. side; shops and stalls with goods exposed running across at back of stage; PEDESTRIANS, male and female children walking to and fro at L., a number of people standing, others make their way in with umbrellas up, which they put down and join the PROMENADERS; the BEADLE of the a..
Borgia - A Period Play
by Michael FieldAn apartment of the Vatican: at the further end the door of the Treasury by which the Lord Cardinal Casanova is seated. The Lord Alexander VI. and an Envoy from Naples. The Pope is seated; from time to time he plunges his hands into a coffer of pearls, letting the pearls stream through his fingers...
Ismael; an oriental tale. With other poems
by Edward George Lytton BulwerTo court applause by oblique dexterity, or without a due sense of respect for public opinion, impertinently to advance pretensions, is equally revolting to the feelings of an ingenuous mind. But as genius and a desire of fame are naturally allied, and, perhaps, the former never existed without the latter; will not the youthful adventurer be justifi..
Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings
by John H. HuddilstonAlthough the archaeologists and mythologists constitute for the most part the number of those seriously concerned with Greek vases, there still remain many engaged in the study of Greek literature for whom the vases are bound to possess an abiding value, since they often relate the stories that Homer, Pindar, Aischylos, and Euripides tell. One may ..