Plays by Genre - Historical and Costume Plays

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

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

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

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

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

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

Through the Eyes - A Play for One Actor

Don Druick

D C Books

Through the Eyes is award-winning playwright Don Druick's acclaimed tour de force for a solo actorSet in the Versailles of the Sun King, this play is the story of the great Italian artist, Gianlorenzo Bernin...

$15.99

Esther and Vashti

Carolyn Gage

Cyberpress

A romantic drama set against a backdrop of war in ancient PersiaA young Hebrew woman and her former lover, the Queen of Persia, struggle against their personal and political differences to form an alliance a...

$7.99

Older Testaments - Encounters on The Way

William Thomas

Cyberpress

This play is written to accompany the recently published Seven Testaments of World Religion and the Zoroastrian Older Testament (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) Through a series of vignettes, Older Testaments...

$7.99

Save the Pier!

James Harris

Cyberpress

Tear down the iconic Santa Monica Pier? Who would ever want to do that? In the early 1970s it almost happened when the City Council voted to demolish the Pier and replace it with a man-made resort island ...

$7.99

Botticelli in the Fire

Jordan Tannahill

Faber & Faber

4 Male 3 Female

"They're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get me wrong. But they are going to kill you" Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all - talent, fame, good looks He also has the ear and the wif...

$14.99

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov adapted Conor McPherson

Nick Hern Books

Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson's stunning adaptation of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside...

$14.99

Swive [Elizabeth]

Ella Hickson

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 2 Female

"My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country" Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England And she reigned for forty-four years ...

$14.99

The Welkin

Lucy Kirkwood

Nick Hern Books

Rural Suffolk, 1759 As the country waits for the return of Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from thei...

$14.99

Fame is no Sanctuary

Christina Hamlett

Cyberpress

On a February morning in 1922, the body of Hollywood film director William Desmond Taylor was found in his living room He was the victim of a single gunshot fired at close range Almost a century later, his...

$7.99

Anatol - A Play

BK De Fabris from Arthur Schnitzler

Createspace

Anatol is a play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893 It is a seven-act play set in late 19th century Vienna, depicting the many shallow and immature relationships of bourgeois playbo...

$6.99

The Guardsman

Bonnie Monte from Ferenc Molnar

Josef Weinberger

3 Male 4 Female

A new version of The Guardsman, Molnar's romantic comedy using a literal English translation by Gabor Lukin, a great-grandson of Molnar A beautiful actress has married her handsome leading man and their bes...

$15.99

The Glass Piano

Alix Sobler

Oberon

2 Male 2 Female

Princess Alexandra thought her life would never change She lives in the castle with her father King Ludwig, her maid Galstina, and glimpses of her mother as she runs from the stables to the rose bushes And...

$14.99

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Rona Munro from Mary Shelley

Nick Hern Books

4 Male 3 Female

"This story has been told and retold in hundreds of different ways since it was first written. But it remains the dark and rebellious roar of its adolescent author. Mary Shelley was only eighteen when she wr...

$12.99