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  • The McNaughtens
    Jean-François Regnard / Frank J. Morlock
    The McNaughtens, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies. ...
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  • Dangerous Liaisons
    Noziere Ferdinand / Frank J. Morlock
    Ferdinand Noziere (Ferdinand Weyl) (1874-1931) was a French playwright who, in addition to many original plays, adapted novels such as Tolstoi’s Kreutzer Sonata (1910, translated by Morlock and published by Borgo/Wildside) and The Eternal Husband (1911) based on Dostoevski’s novel. Noziere’s adaptations are notable for their no-holds-barred power and their fidelity to the orig...
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    16,69 €

  • Tiberius Caesar
    Ferdinand Dugue / Frank J. Morlock
    Frank J. Morlock’s English-language translation and adaptation of Ferdinand Dugue’s 1881 play 'Tibere: drame en cinq actes (huit tableaux)' chronicles the events in the life of Roman emperor Tiberius Caesar (42 B.C. - 37 A.D.). 3 ...
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  • The Three Musketeers
    Paul De Kock / Frank J. Morlock
    Paul de Kock and Adolphe Guénée present a humorous dramatic prequel to the well-known Alexandre Dumas tale of The Three Musketeers. The four would-be adventurers--D’Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos, and Athos--serendipitously encounter each other at an inn outside of Paris, the city where they’re heading to escape their present situations and find their fortunes. They also meet there ...
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  • The Lucky Man
    Michel Baron / Frank J. Morlock
    THE LUCKY MAN is the story of a handsome, conceited young man who’s the devil with the ladies. Cadwell flits from one woman to another, always in search of more adventures, always deceitful, never getting caught, always promising his love--and never giving anyone what he doesn’t possess himself. This ultimate womanizer goes about blithely wrecking the lives of women (and their ...
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    16,58 €

  • Casper Hauser
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois / Frank J. Morlock
    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 the honor of the house? Within a few months he was dead under mysterious circumstances, his mystery still unsolved. CASPER HAUSER uses the uproar caused by Haus...
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    16,70 €

  • Bathilda
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from a script by Auguste Maquet, BATHILDA tells the story of a woman who’s raped by Marcel, and becomes his lover for a time. After she leaves him and moves to Paris, she meets Deworde, her deceased spouse’s nephew, and plans to marry him. But Marcel pursues her, determined that if he can’t have her, no one else will either. He plays a cat-and-mouse g...
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  • Kean
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This Alexandre Dumas drama, penned just three years after the death of the great English Shakespearean actor, Edmund Kean (1787-1833), is filled with an immense joie de vivre, and is perhaps based on the playwright’s own character. Kean, although an acknowledged player of great power and genius, led a very disordered personal life, associating with the lowlifes of the time, goi...
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    16,44 €

  • The Rose Princess and Other Plays
    Frank J. Morlock
    A collection of seven comedies and dramas by an American playwright. THE ROSE PRINCESS, THE GOLDEN GOBLIN, and FROGGY are fairy tales for slightly depraved children. All three have quasi-medieval settings, and are sassy, irreverent, and fun to perform. REHEARSING DON QUIXOTE is a comedy of students being enlisted in a new version of Don Quixote--only to drive their teacher to d...
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    16,41 €

  • Pot Bouille
    Émile Zola / William Busnach / Frank J. Morlock
    In POT BOUILLE, the well-known French novelist Émile Zola and dramatist William Busnach combine their talents to unmask the hypocrisy that hides behind the façade of a respectable and fashionable Parisian apartment house. The Josserands are struggling to make ends meet, and at the same time to marry off their two daughters to prosperous businessmen. At the heart of this broken ...
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  • The Philosophers & The Stumbling Block of Morals
    Charles Palissot / Frank J. Morlock
    Two plays attacking the principles of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and other French philosophers of the eighteenth century. In THE PHILOSOPHERS, the treacherous, self-centered charlatans (as Palissot viewed them) persuade Cydalise that she’s a genius, in order to entice her to marry her well-endowed daughter to one of their number. Actually, they despise the woman and ...
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    18,92 €

  • Agathocles & the Duke of Alencon & the Two Wine Casks
    Voltaire / Frank J. Morlock
    These two short plays and an opera libretto were penned by one of the greatest French writers, Voltaire. In AGATHOCLES the two sons of the King of Syracuse (Agathocles) strive for the hand of the same girl, and the elder is killed by the younger. The ruler can only avenge his loss by sacrificing his remaining son--but doing so would mean the end of his dynasty. THE DUKE OF ALEN...
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    16,53 €

  • The Tree of Chastity and Other Plays
    Charles Dufresny / Jean Francois Regnard / Frank J. Morlock
    Four French comedies by Jean-François Regnard (with Charles Dufresny), who’s considered to be the best comic playwright of his age after Molière. The sardonic and amusing THE TREE OF CHASTITY has a slight plot, but the double-entendres flying rapidly right and left keep the audience well-entertained. WAIT FOR ME UNDER THE ELM is another farce filled with verve aplenty. THE UNFO...
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    16,56 €

  • Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Plays
    Émile Zola / Frank J. Morlock
    Four short French plays that resurrect tales by authors better known for their fiction. MADEMOISELLE FIFI, adapted by Oscar Méténier from a story by Guy de Maupassant, describes an incident during the German occupation of France after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The officers of an isolated German regiment send to Rouen for prostitutes, but Lt. Wilhelm, better known as Made...
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    16,70 €

  • Straight from the Convent & the Interrupted Wedding
    Charles Dufresny / Florent Dancourt / Frank J. Morlock
    Two French comedies focusing on life and love. In STRAIGHT FROM THE CONVENT, a rich old man would like to marry a girl who’s just emerged from the convent. Her mother wants her to cement the union because she has no money--and would like to see her daughter well-established. Needless to say, the girl thinks otherwise, and 'innocently' manages to collect three other suitors! THE...
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  • The Village Coquette & The Crazy Wager
    Charles Dufresny / Florent Dancourt / Frank J. Morlock
    Two French comedies of love and life and the relations between men and women. In THE VILLAGE COQUETTE a Widow trains a country girl, Lisette, in the ways of a Parisian coquette, thinking to make her into an image of herself; but finds that her protégée has become too apt a pupil for the Widow’s own comfort, and threatens to steal the older woman’s own lover. THE CRAZY WAGER fea...
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  • The Play and the Prologue & the Unfortunate Fathers
    Denis Diderot / Frank J. Morlock
    Two plays by the well-known French Enlightenment philosopher and writer, Denis Diderot. THE PLAY AND THE PROLOGUE examines, with a certain amount of skepticism, the motives of people helping other people. The playwright Hardouin, who’s clearly modeled on Diderot himself, manipulates those around him to generate what he believes to be beneficial results for those in need--whatev...
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  • The Spirit of Contradiction & the Double Widowing
    Charles Dufresny / Frank J. Morlock
    Two comedies by a cousin of French King Louis XIV. THE SPIRIT OF CONTRADICTION is an hilarious play about a woman whose sole aim in life is to prevent others (mostly in her own family) from getting their way. So contrary is she to anything that’s suggested to her that her husband, daughter, and in-laws must conceal, as best they can, their real wishes. But she knows they know--...
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    18,94 €

  • The Key to the Great Gate and Other Plays
    Frank J. Morlock
    Here are four plays by the well-known American dramatist, Frank J. Morlock. THE KEY TO THE GREAT GATE, based on a novel by Hinko Gottlieb, is set in 1942 Vienna, where four Jews have been imprisoned by the Nazis. The newest inmate, Tarnopolski, has learned to manipulate the space-time continuum. His ability to shrink and expand objects--including people--creates consternation a...
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    18,71 €

  • Irene & Tanis and Zelide
    Voltaire / Frank J. Morlock
    Two classical French plays by the author of Candide. IRENE is set in the ancient Byzantine Empire. Alexis Comnenus, a noble general, revolts against the Emperor Nicephorus, who’s been jealous of the officer’s love for Nicephorus’s wife, Irene. The Emperor dies defending his throne, and Alexis takes his place. Now he wants to marry his former lover. But although Irene has loved ...
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  • A Yiddish Hamlet and Other Plays
    Frank J. Morlock
    Three plays by the well-known American dramatist and translator, Frank J. Morlock. THE YIDDISH HAMLET, adapted from a story by Israel Zangwill, focuses on a conceited Jewish playwright who’s penned a 'modern' version of Hamlet. His satisfaction at having his drama produced turns to horror when he discovers that Goldberg, the manager, has converted his 'masterpiece' into a comed...
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  • The Baron of Otranto & Samson & Pandora
    Voltaire / Frank J. Morlock
    Three plays by French author Voltaire, author of the classic novel, Candide. THE BARON OF OTRANTO tells the story of the beautiful enslaved girl, Irene, who’s quite shameless and uninhibited in using her feminine charms to seduce and defeat her captor, the corsair Abdullah--and thereby free her beloved Baron Otranto. SAMSON is one of the best opera librettos that blends classic...
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    18,97 €

  • Whitewashing Julia and Other Plays
    Frank J. Morlock
    Three comedies of societal hypocrisy. WHITEWASHING JULIA, adapted from a play by Henry Arthur Jones, tells the story of Julia Wren, whose presence is at first rejected by the scions of society, because of some supposedly scandalous behavior that once occurred in Berlin. But when scandal threatens the 'protectors' of public mores and decorum, she suddenly becomes amazingly more ...
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  • The Night of Christmas & an Exotic Flower
    George Sand / Frank J. Morlock
    Although French author George Sand is still widely read as a novelist and feminist, her theatrical works have fallen into undeserved oblivion. THE NIGHT OF CHRISTMAS is adapted from a tale by the well-known German horror writer, E. T. A. Hoffmann. Sand pits the rigid rationalist Max against his friend Peregrinus Tyss, who believes in a world where sentiment plays a role. Peregr...
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    18,95 €

  • Saving the Queen
    Bernard Lopez / Theophile Gautier / Frank J. Morlock
    Well-known French writer Théophile Gautier and Bernard Lopez combine their talents in this send-up of the cloak-and-sword dramas so popular with the Romantics. When the Spanish Queen’s horse runs away with her, two unknown caballeros rescue Elizabeth from certain death--despite the fact that Spanish law prohibits anyone but the King and her closest attendants from touching her....
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    14,38 €

  • The Londoners & the Green Carnation
    Frank J. Morlock
    The novelist Robert Hichens was known for his absurd renderings of British high society, as portrayed in THE PROPHET OF BERKELEY SQUARE, a satire of the fad for astrology, which Frank J. Morlock has previously adapted to dramatic form. Now, in this pair of new plays, Morlock takes two more stories by Hichens and converts them into modern renderings. THE LONDONERS effectively sa...
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    18,71 €

  • Therese Raquin
    Émile Zola / Frank J. Morlock
    Based on Zola’s 1867 novel, and dramatized by the author in 1873, this play is almost a French version of the Russian novel, Crime and Punishment. Thérèse and her lover, Laurent, decide to kill her likable but sickly husband, Camille (also her husband), and succeed in doing so without arousing any suspicion. The boating accident that ends Camille’s life also makes Laurent a her...
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    18,92 €

  • Olympias; and, The Temple of Glory
    Voltaire / 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 of the last Persian king. Olympias was raised by Cassander, son of King Antipater of Macedon, who’s also tried to murder Statira (although she survived, unbeknownst to him). No...
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    18,80 €

  • The Two McNaughtens
    Jean Francois Regnard / Frank J. Morlock
    Jean-François Regnard (1655-1709) is considered by many critics to be the best writer of comedic plays in seventeenth-century French literature, excepting only Molière. Regnard based many of his pieces on classical sources, and THE TWO MCNAUGHTENS is no exception, having been adapted from the Roman comedy, Menaechmi, by Plautus. The dramatist chose to adapt rather than simply t...
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    19,03 €

  • The Prophet of Berkeley Square
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the novel of the same title by the British writer, Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950), THE PROPHET OF BERKELEY SQUARE is a send-up of the astrology and psychic reading craze that so permeated London society circa 1900. With its witty dialogue and hilarious plot, Frank Morlock’s adaptation of Hichens’s satiric masterpiece is just as funny today as the bestselling novel w...
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    18,84 €


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