Plays by Genre - Historical and Costume Plays

Murdering Marlowe

Charles Marowitz

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 2 Female

William Shakespeare, in his mid-twenties, an aspiring playwright without a foothold in London, is desperate to make his mark The greatest obstacle to his achieving the success he believes he richly deserve...

$13

The Principality of Sorrows

Keith Bunin

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

In 1923, a young New York socialite named Iris abandons America for the lavish garden of a Belgian castle, where she is courted first by Teddy, an idealistic young banker, and then by Marc, an embittered vet...

$13

Victorian Theatricals from Menageries to Melodrama

Sara Hudston

Methuen

A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spe...

$31.99 , $23.99 (25% off)

Anne of the Thousand Days

Maxwell Anderson

Dramatists Play Service

5 Female

This beautiful presentation of the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is played against the well-known historical background of the Court of Henry, and the arrangement of the present acting version follow...

$13

Crown Matrimonial

Royce Ryton

Josef Weinberger

4 Male 6 Female

The fascinating story of Edward VIII's abdication. Set in Marlborough House between 1936 and 1945, this powerful play focuses on the private family drama of Edward VIII and the Royal Family leading up to t...

$15.99

Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

Samuel French Ltd

3 Female

This provocative work weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power In the court of the Austrian Emperor, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter...

$12.99

Bonhoeffer

Tim Jorgenson

Xulon Press

Bonhoeffer is a dramatization of the struggles of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to witness his Christian faith in and against the Third Reich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a prominent pastor and theologian in the so-ca...

$18.99

The Charlatan

William Norfolk

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 5 Female

In Vienna of 1777 a gifted young pianist is sent to Doctor Mesmer in the hope that his unorthodox methods will cure her blindness. Mesmer's treatment is based on transferring a spiritual fluid that restores ...

$12.99

And Flights of Angels

Terrence Ortwein

Dramatic Publishing

In the final moments of Hamlet, the dying prince pleads with his one, true friend, Horatio, to tell his story to those who would otherwise not understand his life and death And Flights of Angels is Horat...

$10.99

Dinner at Eight

George S Kaufman & Edna Ferber

Samuel French Inc

From the society column of the New York Times: Mr and Mrs Oliver Jordan of 927 Park Avenue, entertained at dinner last night in honor of Lord and Lady Ferncliffe. Their guests included Miss Carlotta Vance, ...

$11.99

Anna Karenina

Helen Edmundson from Leo Tolstoy

Nick Hern Books

3 Male 8 Female

Winner of the Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992, this hugely successful stage adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel has wooed critics and audiences alike "... an exemplary adaptation -...

$14.99

Katherine Howard

William Nicholson

Samuel French Ltd

7 Male 4 Female

A touching romance, political intrigue, plots and betrayals and a pointed, and sometimes comic, look at women's lives in Tudor times This intelligent and entertaining play which looks at Tudor life from the...

$12.99

Caravaggio

Richard Vetere

Dramatic Publishing

6 Male 1 Female

Caravaggio is set in Rome in 1600 when the city was vibrant with artists, powerful religious leaders, the Inquisition and street violence A famous painter in his lifetime, Caravaggio kills a man in a brawl ...

$9.99

Theophilus North

Matthew Burnett

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

It's Spring, 1926 and thirty year old Theophilus North quits his teaching post in New Jersey and embarks on a quest for fun, adventure and his place in the world His used car breaks down in Newport, Rhode I...

$10.99

The Brontes - Eccentric Lives

Robert Johanson

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 4 Female

This unique performance piece, which can be presented book-in-hand or fully staged, highlights the extraordinary and eccentric lives of the Brontë family - most notably Charlotte and Emily, the authors of ...

$9.99

Playhouse Creatures - Acting Edition

April De Angelis

Samuel French Ltd

0 Male 4 Female

The year is 1669 A bawdy and troublesome time Theaters have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression There is a surge in dramatic writing and the first English actresses appear on stage ...

$12.99

Caligula

Albert Camus adapted Justin O'Brien

Samuel French Inc

Caligula explores the absolutism of power and the catastrophe of tyranny Caesar summons his council, whose first thought is of taxes "Very well", says Caesar, "if taxes are more important than human heart...

$10.99

Hale the Hero!

Richard Vetere

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 1 Female

"Richard Vetere fancifully plays with the notion that young Captain Hale was in fact a deserter and running home to mom when he was captured by the British in 1776 ... The play is alternately jocular and ...

$9.99

The Andersonville Trial

Saul Levitt

Dramatists Play Service

0 Female

A striking courtroom drama about a famous event in American history: the military trial of Henry Wirz, who was commander of the Confederate prison at Andersonville during the Civil War "The audience at Henr...

$13

The Wicked Lady

Bryony Lavery

Oberon

6 Male 6 Female

This is a stage adaptation of the original novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall ... Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked Forced into a respectable...

$14.99