Comedic plays

Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays.

Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Controversial and sexually charged, The Taming of the Shrew is possibly Shakespeare's first play, and certainly among the most performed.

Shakespeare's gentle melancholy, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, has long made Twelfth Night a favourite with Shakespearian audiences.

A remarkable short novella, a modern fable that is weird, uplifting and romantic all at the same time.

Love and Deception-- Hortensio and Gremio are competing suitors for the hand of the beautiful Bianca.

Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist.

Magical Mischief!

Betrayal and Honor-- Fearing that Caesar means to end the Roman republic and make himself the emperor, Brutus, Caesar's closest friend, allows himself to be caught up in a plot to kill Caesar.

Honor and Shame-- One of Shakespeare's very best plays.

Magic and Intrigue-- Prospero, a wizard, is the rightful Duke of Milan, but his brother, in league with the King, had deposed him and set him adrift with his 3-year-old daughter Miranda 12 years earlier.

Love and Scorn-- All's Well That Ends Well is a fast paced comedic romp.

Mercy and Justice-- Measure for Measure is a play that balances Mercy against Justice and pride against humility.

Vengeance and War-- Rome is in turmoil, there is rioting in the streets and open warfare between the varying ruling factions.

Love and Obligations-- The King of Navarre, Ferdinand, and three of his friends, the lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville, take an oath to foreswear the company of women for three years.

A fun read for Alcott fans, 'Comic Tragedies' is five plays written and performed by the Alcott sisters, collected for publication by Anna Alcott Pratt after the death of her sister, Louisa May Alcott.

Fortune's Fool Here is William Shakespeare's brilliant play the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona during a feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

Doomed Love-- Mark Antony has given himself over to the love of Cleopatra, ignoring his responsibilities to Rome.

Nature or Nurture-- The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of twins accidently separated and mixed at birth.

Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.

Honor and Dignity-- Two Noble Kinsmen is based on Geoffrey Chaucer's the Knight's Tale.

Merry Mischief-- Arriving in Windsor with very little money, John Falstaff decides to raise funds by wooing two wealthy, married women.

Love and Fealty-- Two Gentleman of Verona is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.

'Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare' is a collection edited by Edith Nesbit.

Love and Longing-- As You Like it is One of William Shakespeare's best known plays.

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete.

Deception and Shame-- The play opens in the court of Antiochus, king of Antioch.

To Die Upon a Kiss-- Othello is Shakespeare's great tragic play of love, trust, and deceit.

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Deception and Pride-- Bassanio, a Venetian nobleman, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy Portia, but he is short on funds.

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete.

Friendship and Trust-- Leontes and Polixenes, friends from childhood, are having a protracted visit for the first time in years.

Magic and Treachery- The Play starts which young King henry VI, Marrying Margaret of Anjou.

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete.

Innocence and Jealousy-- Like Othello and The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline deals with perceived betrayal and jealousy.

Mistaken Identity-- Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian, are shipwrecked.

Murder, mayhem, and magic.

Blood and Revenge-- Titus Andronicus is by far Shakespeare's most violent play.

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What Every Woman Knows (1908) is a play by J.