Plays by Genre - Historical and Costume Plays

Democracy

Romulus Linney from Henry Adams

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

In the presidential society of Washington in the spring of 1875, two beautiful American women are courted by two dashing American menMadelaine Lee, a wealthy widow from New York, and Esther Dudley, an agnost...

$13

Portrait of a Nude

Laura Shamas

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

Our response to art is subjective. Is our reaction to art really based on the work itself, or on the "politically correct" values of our times? Portrait of a Nude traces the history of response to Franc...

$9.99

The Roses of Eyam

Don Taylor

Samuel French Ltd

True story of a plague-stricken 17C village that isolates itself to prevent the spread of the disease, even though the villagers know their selfless action acutely risks their own lives - large, mixed cast +...

$12.99

Joseph Andrews

P M Clepper from Henry Fielding

Samuel French Ltd

7 Male 1 Female

This is Fielding's satire on "virtue in peril" A young virtuous male is being pursued and tries to keep his honor unsullied for the lovely maiden he wants to marry Pure Joseph is besieged by high and low b...

$12.99

My Antonia

Charles Jones from Willa Cather

Samuel French Inc

This faithful adaptation brings the wonderful romantic novel's profoundly human characters and its expansive view of 19th century American frontier life vibrantly to the stage The play celebrates Antonia's ...

$10.99

Emilie - La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight

Lauren Gunderson

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Passionate. Brilliant. Defiant ... Tonight, 18th century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the question she died with - love or philosophy, head or heart? In this hig...

$10.99

A History of the American Film

Christopher Durang

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 6 Female

A hilarious take off on American films, especially from the 1930s through the 1950s. The principals play a variety of characters. There is a Cagney Bogart Dean Brando type-- and a Fonda Stewart Peck Perkins ...

$10.99

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

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

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

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