The World's Great Plays: Literature written to be spoken aloud

A play is a score — its full meaning emerges only in performance. But the greatest plays also read as the most compressed, intelligent writing in the language. Here is the canon of the stage.

In this collection

• The Name-Day
• Epiphany
• The Amatory Episodic
• The Story of Iván the Fool
• The Ball at Sceaux
• Keeping Up Appearances
• The Simple Ploughboy
• The Prisoner. Ellis Bell
• In Absence
• Blind Jack
• A Vision
• A Daughter of the Vine
• He Called her In
• A Good-Bye
• An Idyll
• The Inn Finds Wings
• The Portrait
• Two Prisoners
• The Gospel
• A Trifle from Life
• Venetia
• Queen Lucia
• The Wife of Flanders
• A Close Shave
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