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$3.99Lorenzino Alexandre Dumas et al.
This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas’s drama is based on an actual event–the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, Lorenzo.… More
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Sappho: An Opera Libretto Frank J. Morlock et al.
Émile Augier presents the story of SAPPHO, another tragedy set in classical times, full of betrayal and self-sacrifice. Ancient Greek drama had much in common with modern opera, emphasizing story lines that have been… More
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Queen Margot: A Play in Five Acts Frank J. Morlock et al.
Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre of the French Huguenots–and the subsequent death of King Charles… More
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Two Voltairean Plays: The Triumvirate and Comedy at Ferney Frank J. Morlock et al.
Set in Roman times, Voltaire’s play THE TRIUMVIRATE details a meeting on an island between Anthony and Octavian, in which the two main players in the post-Caesar Roman world decide how to divide up the spoils of… More
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Olympias; and, The Temple of Glory: Two Plays Frank J. Morlock
OLYMPIAS is one of Voltaire’s most powerful tragedies. It’s based on the suspicion that King Alexander the Great was poisoned, and left an infant daughter, Olympias, by his Persian wife Statira, daughter… More
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The Mad Marquis Frank J. Morlock et al.
Written in 1836, this collaborative play is based on a real-life incident, using the actual names of the principals involved. The young Marquis de Brunoy is snubbed at the French Royal Court of Versailles because his… More
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The Venetian Frank J. Morlock
To save his father from execution for treason, the Bravo Giovanni agrees to act as an assassin for The Council of Ten, and ruthlessly carries out their orders for targeted killings against real or imagined enemies of … More
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The Gold Thieves Frank J. Morlock et al.
Dr. Ivans, unable to make a living in London, migrates with his two daughters to Australia, where he hopes to make his fortune; one of his girls, Melida, is forced to leave her suitor, Williams, behind. Arriving in Australia,… More
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Casper Hauser Frank J. Morlock et al.
In 1828 a young man in rags appeared in the German city of Nurnberg, saying that he’d been kept isolated in a dungeon all of his life. Was he the bastard offshoot of some noble or royal family, secreted away to preserve… More
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The Corsican Brothers: A Play in Three Acts Frank J. Morlock et al.
This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas tale tells the story of two brothers, born as Siamese twins, but separated not long after birth. They’re raised by two different families, but are still able to “feel”… More
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Penelope: An Opera Libretto Frank J. Morlock et al.
PENELOPE, by Jean-François Marmontel, tells the story of Ulysses’ return to Ithaca after his long journey home from Troy, and how he takes revenge on the boorish suitors of his wife, Penelope, who have browbeaten… More
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Castor and Pollux: An Opera Libretto Frank J. Morlock et al.
In CASTOR AND POLLUX, by Pierre Bernard, one of the twins from ancient myth attempts to rescue his brother from the underworld. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is remarkable.… More
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Doctor Scratch and Other Plays Frank J. Morlock et al.
Three French comedies revolving around marriage, misidentification, medicine–and money!
DOCTOR SCRATCH, by Noël le Breton, is a clever and hilarious farce, in which love becomes hopelessly entangled in … More
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Herculaneum and Sardanapalus: Two Opera Libretti Frank J. Morlock et al.
Two opera libretti focusing on the theme of the fiery sacrifice of the protagonists. HERCULANEUM, by Joseph Méry, a friend of Alexandre Dumas, is set in 79 A.D. in the doomed city of Herculaneum. Olympia, an oriental … More
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I Never Cheat on My Husband Frank J. Morlock et al.
Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) wrote some 60 comedies, farces, and comic monologues; I Never Cheat on My Husband was one of his last productions (1914). Often considered the greatest French comic genius since Molière,… More
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Tiberius Caesar — A Play in Five Acts Frank J. Morlock et al.
Frank J. Morlock’s English-language translation and adaptation of Ferdinand Dugue’s 1881 play “Tibère: drame en cinq actes (huit tableaux)” chronicles the events in the life of Roman… More
