Hearts and clubs: A comedy in three acts

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy of manners set in late‑Victorian England, presented…

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy of the Elizabethan stage, set in the mythic world of ancient Athens and…

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

This work is a Shakespearean comedy that opens in an orchard near Oliver’s house, where the disgruntled…

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, translated into English and illustrated by Norman…

Pygmalion

Bernard Shaw

The work is a comedy play that opens with a long, tongue‑in‑cheek essay on the state of English phonetics,…

Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare

The play opens in the royal park of Navarre, where King Ferdinand gathers his courtiers, Berowne, Longaville…