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  • Shylock, the Merchant of Venice
    Alfred de Vigny / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    As with many of his French contemporaries, Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) enjoyed the challenge of reworking William Shakespeare’s classic plays for a modern audience. 'Shylock' (1830) eliminates many of the comic elements of the master’s original and focuses on the darker themes of racial prejudice and the relationship between Jew and gentile. The result is another stunning resur...
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    13,38 €

  • The Musketeers--Twenty Years Later
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Twenty years after the events of The Three Musketeers, the intrepid quartet--Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan--return in an attempt to save King Charles I from the axe of General Oliver Cromwell. But Cromwell is being helped by Mordaunt, son of Milady de Winter (whom the Musketeers had executed twenty years before), and he uses his position as the General’s secretary to g...
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    18,47 €

  • Anna Karenina
    Edmond Guiraud / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This dramatic adaptation of Anna Karenina transforms Tolstoy’s masterpiece into an intense five-act play, capturing the emotional depth and tragic grandeur of Anna’s doomed love. As she struggles against the rigid expectations of Russian high society, her pursuit of happiness leads her down a path of isolation and heartbreak. A powerful exploration of passion, morality, and fat...
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    16,66 €

  • The Last of the Three Musketeers; Or, the Prisoner of the Bastille
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Based on the riveting novel by Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years After, this is the bestselling author’s final account of The Three Musketeers and their young recruit, D’Artagnan. In 1661 young Louis XIV is King of France. The Musketeers find themselves divided: Aramis (now secret head of the Jesuit Order) wants to replace Louis with his hidden twin brother, The Man in the Iron Mask. ...
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    17,40 €

  • The Marquis de Sade
    Charles Mere / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    The Marquis de Sade has become a byword for sexual sadism against women. In this historical play set in 1801, de Sade entices a beautiful young girl into his house, and then, in front of his female followers, deliberately and brutally tortures her into insanity. In Act II, set seven years later in an insane asylum, de Sade begins organizing his fellow inmates into a theatre gro...
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    14,42 €

  • Mathias Sandorf
    Jules Verne / William Busnach / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Set in Trieste, Sicily, and Morocco, this play tells the story of Mathias Sandorf, a Hungarian patriot who is betrayed to the Austrians by one of his comrades-in-arms. Thought to be dead, Sandorf returns after many years of wandering to seek his revenge. This is one of the first modern depictions in drama of a gay couple. ...
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    16,53 €

  • The Children of Captain Grant
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This race-against-the-clock adventure features a mutiny, castaways on a remote island, earthquakes, whale hunting, dastardly villains, man against the elements, a rescue mission, and offbeat humor. There’s never a dull moment as 'The Children of Captain Grant' search the globe for their long-lost father and brother. ...
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    15,53 €

  • Michael Strogoff
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Michael Strogoff, a courier of the Russian Czar, is sent on a perilous mission to deliver a vital message to the Grand Duke, defending Siberia against a Tartar attack. But when Michael is captured and blinded, all appears to be lost. French playwright Adolphe d’Ennery has adapted Jules Verne’s classic novel of suspense, and Frank J. Morlock has once again translated this wonder...
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    17,91 €

  • William Shakespeare
    Ferdinand Dugue / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    The man we encounter in Ferdinand Dugue’s 1857 play is not the bland Shakespeare of history, about whose personal life we know so little. No, this is the playwright we would liked to have known: poet, romantic, hero . . . a larger-than-life figure cutting a swath through sixteenth-century England. Building on the few known facts of Shakespeare’s life -- his unhappy marriage, hi...
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    16,74 €

  • The Voyage Through the Impossible
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This lesser-known tale by Jules Verne explores a fantastical journey that combines elements from several of his famous novels. It follows the daring adventures of characters who travel through the Earth, sea, and space, encountering extraordinary sights and challenges. The play delves into the themes of exploration, imagination, and the quest for the unknown, offering a theatri...
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    14,38 €

  • The Tower of Death
    Alexandre Dumas / Frederic Gaillardet / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas’s greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain. Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild ...
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    16,56 €

  • Armida & Amadis & Roland
    Philippe Quinault / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    In these three librettos, Philippe Quinault turns from classical opera to medieval legends--Renaud and Armida, Amadis and Oriana, and Angelica and Roland--exploring the tensions between love and glory. As usual, the dramatist relates his stories deftly with classic simplicity. In these adaptions of traditional medieval stories of romance, enchantment, monsters, and magic, eithe...
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    16,57 €

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Four
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of the nineteenth century. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also converted many of his fictions into riveting dramas, dividing his classic tale of revenge into four plays. In this fourth and final part, Edmond Dantes (the Count of Monte Cristo) sets out to destroy Danglars and Villefort, the other two men who had he...
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    17,37 €

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Three
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of all time. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also adapted his novel into four riveting plays. Part Three: The Rise of Monte Cristo is set two decades after Edmond Dantès has been unjustly imprisoned in the Château d’If. Edmond has made himself into the Count of Monte Cristo, and he now sets out to gain his revenge ...
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    17,56 €

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Two
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, has been converted by the author into a series of four plays. In PART TWO, Edmond Dantes has escaped from the dreaded prison island of d’If after 14 years of captivity. He seeks out the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo described to him by the Abbe Faria, and assumes the identity of the priest Busoni. ...
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    16,53 €

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Part One
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This dramatization of the classic novel is the first of four parts. In 1815 Napoleon has fled to Elba, and the Bourbons have been restored to the French throne. Young Edmond Dantes is First Mate and Acting Capt. of the merchant ship Pharoah. Everything seems bright for his future, until he’s arrested for delivering a letter to Elba--a dying request of his former captain. Then t...
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    16,32 €

  • The Son of Porthos the Musketeer
    Emile Blavet / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    Based on the riveting novel by Paul Mahalin, itself a sequel to the bestselling series of Three Musketeer novels by Alexandre Dumas, this play is set in 1678, 17 years after the events in The Last of the Three Musketeers. Joel de Locmaria, unbeknownst to himself, is the illegitimate son of Porthos, one of the three original Musketeers. Suddenly he finds himself drawn into the c...
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    16,44 €

  • The Dream of a Summer Night
    Paul Meurice / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This French adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream focuses on the magical transformation of the would-be actor, Bottom, into a ludicrous ass, who is then pursued by the enchanted fairy queen, Titania. Meurice’s version is a smooth, timeless, humorous, and modern rewrite of the original in prose. ...
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    14,52 €

  • Joan of Arc
    Charles Desnoyer / Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    French writer Charles Desnoyer provides a striking interpretation of the life of Joan of Arc, who singlehandedly saves the French state at the cost of her own life. Joan leaves her native village over the objections of her father to see King Charles VII, who has yet to be crowned. She convinces the monarch to back her God-given visions and, with an army at her side, defeats the...
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    12,93 €

  • Sherlock Holmes
    Frank J. Morlock / Frank JMorlock
    This collection of seven original Holmesian plays, never before published in book form, features the Great Detective’s encounters with none other than Fantômas, the French Lord of Terror, Count Dracula, Father Brown, Theodore Roosevelt and more.Renowned playwright and translator Frank J. Morlock also adapted Lord Ruthven the Vampire, The Return of Lord Ruthven, the Arsène Lupin...
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    23,29 €