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David Copperfield David Copperfield Charles Dickens David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooke… OL10322056W
The Rivals / The School for Scandal / The Critic The Rivals / The School for Scandal / The Critic Richard Brinsley Sheridan Three (anti)sentimental comedies by a noted eighteenth century dramatist. OL1062576W
The school for scandal, 1780 The school for scandal, 1780 Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777. The play is still popular and regularly performed today. It is a comedy of manners about "the deceptive nature of appearances, … OL1062586W
Plays Plays Richard Brinsley Sheridan Major british playwrighter of the 18C OL1062652W
Mrs. Warren's Profession Mrs. Warren's Profession George Bernard Shaw From the book:Mrs Warren's Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant amusement of startling all but the strongest… OL1066086W
Plays Extravagant (Millionairess / Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles / Too True to be Good) Plays Extravagant (Millionairess / Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles / Too True to be Good) George Bernard Shaw | Too true to be good | | The simpleton of the unexpected isles | | The millionairess. | OL1066148W
Plays Political (Apple Cart / On the Rocks / Geneva) Plays Political (Apple Cart / On the Rocks / Geneva) George Bernard Shaw The apple cart On the rocks Geneva. OL1066353W
The Portable Bernard Shaw The Portable Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw Five plays complete: Devil's Disciple [Pygmalion](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1066524W/Pygmalion) In the Beginning Heartbreak House Shakes versus shav The celebrated "Don Juan in Hell" sc… OL1066402W
Back to Methuselah Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica. OL1066519W
Pygmalion Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw,George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. ---------- Also contained in: - [Collected … OL1066524W
Arms and the Man Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the… OL1066525W
The complete plays of Ben Jonson The complete plays of Ben Jonson Ben Jonson Ben Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly 'Volpone', 'The Alchemist', and 'Barthol… OL1085415W
Murder in the Cathedral Murder in the Cathedral T. S. Eliot A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a c… OL1142294W
MARKET BOY MARKET BOY David Eldridge 126 pages ; 20 cm OL12926821W
The changeling The changeling Thomas Middleton,Trevor R. Griffiths,William Rowley Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, The Changeling was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley and first published in book form in 1653. Beatrice-… OL1339729W
ELMINA'S KITCHEN ELMINA'S KITCHEN KWAME KWEI-ARMAH 94 p. ; 20 cm OL13450119W
SIR THOMAS MORE SIR THOMAS MORE Anthony Munday xxi, 85 pages ; 20 cm OL13637968W
On Mozart On Mozart Anthony Burgess The author uses an imaginary conversation to pay tribute to Mozart on the bicentennial of his death, describing his contributions to the Enlightenment, discussing the phenomenon of a prodigy, and spe… OL1386675W
Sunday Under Three Heads Sunday Under Three Heads Charles Dickens Charles Dickens defends the innocent recreations of the poor. OL14869587W
A House of Pomegranates A House of Pomegranates Oscar Wilde **A House of Pomegranates** is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that… OL14877868W
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