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...Ceci est une collection de pièces en un acte et de monologues en français. This is a collection of French one-act plays and monologues. (by Jc Guan, translated by Ezwa)...

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Literature, Play, Romance

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Play, Literature

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Literature, Play, Classics (antiquity)

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Literature, Play

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Literature, Play

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Literature, Play

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...readers present the eighth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres - tragedy, comedy, romance, &c...

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Literature, Play, Poetry

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Literature, Play

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Literature, Play

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Play, Literature

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Literature, Play

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...The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least partly written by William Shakespeare, a view that Shakespeare scholars have increasingly endorsed. The rest of the play was probably writt...

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Play, Literature, Poetry, Historical Fiction

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...and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts. It is Goethe's most famous work and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature. This first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a...

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Literature, Play, Tragedy, Myths/Legends

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Literature, Play

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...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 DH Lawrence TOUCH AND GO A Play in Three Acts BY D. H. LAWRENCE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE... ..., let us deduce it. Major premise: the seats are cheap. Minor premiss: the plays are good. Conclusion: A People’s Theatre. How much will you give me f... ...w.—But it isn’t. It isn’t Plebs, the proletariat. The seats are cheap. The plays are good. Pah!—this has a canting smell. Any play is good to the man ... .... And at that rate Chu Chin Chow is extra-super-good. What about your good plays? Whose good? Pfui to your goodness! That minor premiss is a bad egg: ... ...our goodness! That minor premiss is a bad egg: it will hatch no bird. Good plays? You might as well say mimsy bomtittle plays, you’d be saying as much... ... You might as well say mimsy bomtittle plays, you’d be saying as much. The plays are—don’t say good or you’ll be beaten. The plays—the plays of A Peop... ...?—not popular nor populous nor plebian nor proletarian nor folk nor parish plays. None of that adjectival spawn. The only clue-word is People’s for al... ...r all that. A People’s— Chaste word, it will bring forth no adjective. The plays of A People’s Theatre are People’s plays. The plays of A People’s The... ...A People’s Theatre are People’s plays. The plays of A People’s Theatre are plays about people. It doesn’t look much, at first sight. After all—people!...

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...illay A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Aria Da Capo, A Play in One Act by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Aria Da Capo, A Play in One Act by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...an equal opportunity university. 3 Edna St. Vincent Millay ARIA DA CAPO A PLAY IN ONE ACT Copyright, 1920 By Edna St. Vincent Millay Printed in the U... ... CO CO CO COTHURNUS THURNUS THURNUS THURNUS THURNUS: T rue, sir; yet I Can play the scene. P P P P PIERR IERR IERR IERR IERRO O O O OT T T T T: Your s... ... COTHURNUS THURNUS THURNUS THURNUS THURNUS: That, too, is true, sir; but I play it now. P P P P PIERR IERR IERR IERR IERRO O O O OT T T T T: Oh, very ... ...CO CO COTHURNUS THURNUS THURNUS THURNUS THURNUS: That is true; But we will play it now. I am the scene. 8 Aria da Capo [Seats himself on high place i... ...! THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS: Sir, we are not in the fancy To play the play. We had thought to play it later. COR COR COR COR CORYDON YDO... ...e are always ready. CO CO CO CO COTHURNUS THURNUS THURNUS THURNUS THURNUS: Play the play! [C C C C COR OR OR OR ORYDON YDON YDON YDON YDON and THYRSIS... ...THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS: What do I mean?—I mean That I can play a game as well as you can. And if the pool is on my side, it’s on My s...

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... that come to see 11 Onely a show or two, and so agree, 12 The Play may passe: If they be still, and willing, 13 Ile vndertake may s... ...in two short houres. Onely they 15 That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play, 16 A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow 17 In a long Mo... ...0 And vnderstand againe like honest men, 611 Or pack to their old Playfellowes; there, I take it, 612 They may Cum Priuilegio, wee away... ...625 An honest Country Lord as I am, beaten 626 A long time out of play, may bring his plaine song, 627 And haue an houre of hearing, and... ...merry Gamster 726 My Lord Sands. 727 San. Yes, if I make my play: 728 Heer’s to your Ladiship, and pledge it Madam: 729 For t... ...25 There had made a lasting Spring. 1626 Euery thing that heard him play, 1627 Euen the Billowes of the Sea, 1628 Hung their heads, & t... ...my Miseries: But thou hast forc’d me 2344 (Out of thy honest truth) to play the Woman. 2345 Let’s dry our eyes: And thus farre heare me Cromw... ...One that by suggestion 2591 Ty’de all the Kingdome. Symonie, was faire play, 2592 His owne Opinion was his Law. I’th’ presence 2593 He wou... ...aue not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith, 2636 Cause the Musitians play me that sad note 2637 I nam’d my Knell; whil’st I sit meditating ...

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...Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic General, has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an aspiring young academic, reliable but no...

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Literature, Play, Humor