Plays by Nation - French Plays

The Bungler

Moliere trans Richard Wilbur

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 2 Female

Molière's THE BUNGLER (1655) takes place in the Sicilian city of Messina, and is a fresh, zestful verse treatment of the familiar elements of Italian popular comedy. A beautiful young woman named Célie ha...

$13

Legend of Lovers

Jean Anouilh

Used Copy

First Printing - Coward-McCann Inc - New York 1952 - with d/j - trans Kitty Black

$55

Britannicus

Jean Racine adapt/trans Robert David MacDonald

Absolute Classics

6 Male 3 Female

This political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of Emperor Nero's tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos Includes an Introduction by director Ni...

$16.99

The Barber of Seville & Marriage of Figaro

Beaumarchais

Penguin

A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis ...

$18.99

The Respectable Prostitute & Lucifer the Lord - Penguin p/b

Jean Paul Sartre

Penguin

$14.99

Beaumarchais - A Biography

Frederic Grendel

Used Copy

$29.99

13 Rue de L'Amour

Mawby Green & Ed Feilbert from Georges Feydeau

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

This is the hilarious frolic which launched Feydeau in Paris as the Neil Simon of his day Take one philandering husband, add his virtuous wife set on revenge, a doctor determined to be her instrument of rev...

$10.99

Paolo Paoli

Arthur Adamov

Used Copy

$19.99

Rabelais - a Dramatic Game in Two Parts

Barrault trans Robert Baldrick

Used Copy

Taken from the Five books of Francois Rabelais

$18.99

Later Queens of the French Stage

H Noel Williams

Used Copy

Features Sophie Arnould & Madame Guimard & Madame Raucourt & Madame Dugazon & Madame Contat & Mme Saint-Huberty - pub 1910

$70

Monologues From Moliere

Dick Dotterer (ed)

Dramaline Publications

For men and women. The first available collection of speeches from Moliere's plays rendered into contemporary prose. "Tartuffe," "The Misanthrope," "The Miser," "The Imaginaary Invalid," and others. 80 pages...

$12.99

Le Bonheur Mesdames & La Bonne Intention par Frances de Croisset avec illustrations d'apres les aquarelles de A. Supparo - beautifully bound Modern-Theatre edition circa 1912

Frances de Croisset

Used Copy

$55

The Marriage of Figaro

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais trans & adapt Robert Cogo-Fawcett & Braham Murray

Oberon

First produced at the Odéon in 1784 The Marriage of Figaro, the second play of Beaumarchais trilogy was an instant success and ran for an unprecedented 116 performances Written six years earlier the play ha...

$14.99

Feydeau Plays 2 - The Girl from Maxim's & She's All Yours & A Flea in Her Ear & Jailbird

Georges Feydeau trans Kenneth McLeish

Methuen

Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of farce-writers His series of dazzling hits matched high-speed actio...

$26.99

Frontline Drama 6 - New French Plays

David Bradby ed - trans Nigel Gearing & Martin Crimp & Gillian Hanna & Annabel Arden & Mark Ravenhill

Methuen

One More Wasted Year by Christophe Pellet & Agnes by Catherine Anne & The Northern Fox by Noelle Renaude & Mickey the Torch by Natacha de Pontcharra & A Desire to Kill on the Tip of the Tongue by Xavier Durr...

$28.99

The Island of Slaves

Pierre Marivaux trans Neil Bartlett

Absolute Classics

2 Male 3 Female

Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the...

$17.99

Emmanuel Robles - Case for a Rebel & The Clock & Porfirio

Emmanuel Robles

Used Copy

Trans James A Kilker

$19.99

Iphigenia & Phaedra & Athalia

Jean Racine

Penguin

Themes of ruthless and unrelenting tragedy are at the heart of these plays. The first two are based on Greek legend, while Athaliah depicts the vengeance and the power of the Old Testament Jehovah

$18.99

The Tower

Alexandre Dumas trans/adapted Charles Wood

Oberon

Translation of La Tour de Nesle - a tale of murder, sexual depravity and treachery among the French aristocracy The play, dubbed anti-monarchist, played for 800 performances during the French revolutions of...

$14.99

Tiger at the Gates

Jean Giraudoux adapted Christopher Fry

Samuel French Inc

$10.99