Comedy plays books

Dolly Reforming Herself: A Comedy in Four Acts

Henry Arthur Jones

Dolly Reforming Herself is a four‑act comedy by Henry Arthur Jones that opens in the drawing‑room of the…

The Birds

Aristophanes

Aristophanes’ The Birds is a full‑blown comedy that launches with two weary Athenians, Euelpides and…

The Imaginary Invalid

Molière

The work is a French comedy of the seventeenth‑century stage, known as The Imaginary Invalid, in which…

The Inspector-General

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The Inspector‑General is a comedy of Russian drama that quickly establishes its cultural weight by…

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

The work is a Shakespearean comedy that opens with a raucous backstage scene in which a lord, a pair of…

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice is a comedy set in Renaissance Venice that weaves together themes of trade,…

The Devil is an Ass

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass is a 17th‑century English comedy that opens not with a scene but with a…

The Clouds

Aristophanes

The Clouds is a Greek comedy by Aristophanes, presented here in an English translation that preserves the…

The Frogs

Aristophanes

The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

The Miser

Molière

Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman

Ben Jonson

The Acharnians

Aristophanes

Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

The Three Sisters

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A.

William Shakespeare

Der Zerbrochene Krug

Heinrich von Kleist

Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy

Ben Jonson

The Beaux-Stratagem

George Farquhar

Hay fever: A light comedy in three acts

Noël Coward

The Poetaster

Ben Jonson

All's Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare

Tales and Novels — Volume 08

Maria Edgeworth

Our American Cousin

Tom Taylor