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    An Ideal Husband

    By Oscar Wilde

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    Secrets and mistakes haunt a politician care of the most charming blackmailer one could ever meet. But the stakes are high when political power hangs in the balance, and the delicate game these charac ...

    Rating: 4.31

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    Pygmalion

    By George Bernard Shaw

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    The original makeover story from which a thousand imitators were born, this is the tale of how dapper Henry Higgins tries to elevate Eliza Doolittle from the cockney streets to the upper class.

    Rating: 4.22

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    The Importance of Being Earnest

    By Oscar Wilde

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    Take a break and go "bunburying" with this zany farce of double identities, romantic intrigue, and more than a few fellows named Ernest.

    Rating: 4.37

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    Hamlet

    By William Shakespeare

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    Betrayal. Murder. Madness. Love. A man's quest for vengeance probes the depths of our psyche, exposing the fears and desires that lurk beneath. A masterpiece of western literature, Hamlet is not to be ...

    Rating: 4.09

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    As You Like It

    By William Shakespeare

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    Here, in one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, the courtly world collides with the world of nature. Frederick has usurped his brother Duke Senior’s throne, and Senior has been forced to flee ...

    Rating: 3.89

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    An Enemy of the People

    By Henrik Ibsen

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    Master playwright Henrik Ibsen delivers another groundbreaking message in his 1882 play An Enemy of the People. A small coastal town is full of anticipation for the grand opening of a new set of baths ...

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    The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

    By Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert

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    Scene.-- the Piazzetta, Venice. The Ducal Palace on the right. tying a bouquet of roses. CHORUS OF CONTADINE. Ere your morning bloom has fled. ...

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    All's Well That Ends Well

    By William Shakespeare

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    In William Shakespeare's zany 1605 play All's Well That Ends Well, love and ambition are put to the test when a passionate young woman sets her sights on a not-too-eager suitor. Although Helena lacks ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    Cyrano De Bergerac

    By Edmond Rostand

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    The Characters: The crowd, troopers, burghers (male and female), marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascons cadets, actors (male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldie ...

    Rating: 4.60

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    Wikipedia Tour: Essential Opera

    By DailyLit

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    Get introduced to the world of opera with our Wikipedia Tour of Opera Essentials: From La Bohème to Madame Butterfly, from Mozart to Wagner, we’ve pulled together all of the key composers, styles, ...

    Rating: 4.50

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    Julius Caesar

    By William Shakespeare

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    Returning home after a magnificent victory, war hero Julius Caesar is greeted by throngs of adoring citizens. A prophet tries to stop him in the street with the ominous warning to “beware the ides o ...

    Rating: 3.80

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    Oedipus Trilogy

    By Sophocles

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    Comprised of his three most famous works, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonnus, Sophocles’s Oedipus Trilogy is a landmark in the history of Western drama. The gripping trilogy of plays abo ...

    Rating: 4.43

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    Oresteia: Agamemnon

    By Aeschylus

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    Rating: 3.75

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    The Bacchae

    By Euripides

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    Rating: 3.75

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    King Richard II

    By William Shakespeare

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    A corrupt king slowly loses his grip on the throne in this first installment of the Henriad, Shakespeare’s group of four history plays. Richard II is a regal, well-spoken king, but he wastefully squ ...

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    Don Carlos

    By Friedrich Schiller

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    DON CARLOS. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. PHILIP THE SECOND, King of Spain. DON CARLOS, Prince, Son of Philip. ALEXANDER FARNESE, Prince of Parma. MARQUIS DE POSA. DUKE OF ALVA. Grandees of Spain: DOMINGO, Confe ...

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    Book Sampler: Shakespeare

    By DailyLit

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    All the world’s a stage, and nowhere is that truer than in this Shakespeare Sampler. The tragedies, the comedies, and the sonnets are all sampled here, allowing you to discover (or rediscover) what ...

    Rating: 4.33

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    King Lear

    By William Shakespeare

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    Bonds are broken and loyalty is questioned in this dramatic story of familial ties and political power. Who can find redemption on the wild heaths of England—and who will be left with grief and regr ...

    Rating: 4.50

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