comedies

This book lays out the skills needed to write a play, and how lines and scenes can be altered during rehearsals.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

An anthology of thirty-six short plays by American playwrights that offer a humorous look at life in the modern world.

A play about Eliza Doolittle, an untutored flower girl who is transformed into a "duchess" with the help of Henry Higgins.

After running away separately to escape their upcoming arranged marriage, two young royals who have never met before run into each other and fall in love naturally while still unaware of each other's true identity.

Contains George Bernard Shaw's play in which Henry Higgins attempts to turn Eliza Doolittle, a poor, young beggar, into a lady of society by teaching her proper language skills and better manners.

Jack Worthing, needing a regular escape from his dull country routine, creates a fictitious brother Ernest who supposedly lives in London, but the lie backfires when he falls in love.

Presents an annotated edition of Shakespeare's comedy about Spanish courtiers who unsuccessfully swear off relationships with women, and includes scene-by-scene plot summaries, full explanatory notes, and a key to Shakespeare's language.

"In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state"--Back cover.

Presents an English adaptation of the seventeenth-century French comedy in which Orgon, a wealthy Parisian, is duped into offering his fortune and his daughter's hand in marriage to Tartuffe, a swindler posing as a spiritual guide.