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What’s Bred in the Bone, Grant Allen
This was the top-prize-winning novel from 20,000 entries in one of the richest literary awards ever offered in Britain. Its convoluted and colorful plot turns on questions of heredity and atavism: the...
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Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written sometime between 1584 and the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge...
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Cymbeline, William Shakespeare
Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare, based on an early Celtic British King. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify it as a romance. Like Othello, Measure...
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Pandora’s Box, Frank Wedekind
Pandora’s Box is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of ‘Lulu’ plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a society “riven by the...
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The Four White Days, Fred Merrick White
Frederick Merrick White (1859-1935) wrote a number of novels and short stories under the name “Fred M. White” including the six ‘Doom of London’ science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes...
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Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
The story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is...
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R.U.R., Karel Čapek
R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Capek. R.U.R. stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots). However, the English phrase Rossum’s Universal Robots...
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Henry VIII, William Shakespeare
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth is a history play by William Shakespeare, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is recorded in...
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Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, J. M. Barrie
Written immediately after the play that would launch J. M. Barrie to international acclaim, Peter Pan, Alice Sit-By-The-Fire is just as charming, sweet and madcap as its predecessor. A group of older...
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