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  • The Mad Marquis
    Alexandre Dumas / Emmanuel Theaulon / Frank J. Morlock
    Written in 1836, this collaborative play is based on a real-life incident, using the actual names of the principals involved. The young Marquis de Brunoy is snubbed at the French Royal Court of Versailles because his father, a financier, had been ennobled for his great wealth. After having to fight several duels to defend his honor, the Marquis strikes back by disregarding his ...
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    19,07 €

  • Queen Margot
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre of the French Huguenots--and the subsequent death of King Charles IX. The playwright focuses on the people inadvertently caught up in the slaughter--which, once started, cannot be repressed. By following the fate of two nobles, the Catho...
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    22,05 €

  • Hans of Iceland
    Palmir / Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name (penned when the author was only twenty-one), this macabre play begins in a morgue. The fearsome outlaw, Hans of Iceland, whose face has been seen by no one, determines to kill a regiment of Musketeers that he blames for the death of his son. His revenge intersects in a bloody way with the more conventional romantic plot of a youn...
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    19,06 €

  • The Mohicans of Paris
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Written in 1864 and based on Dumas’s sprawing novel of the same name, this play is a tale of murder and ruthless ambition spread through many levels of French society. As a young girl, Leonie barely escapes being killed by her greedy uncle, though her young brother is not so fortunate. With the two children being so conveniently dead, the uncle inherits his deceased brother’s v...
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    21,05 €

  • L’Assommoir
    Émile Zola / William Busnach / Frank J. Morlock
    Émile Zola (1840-1902) was one of France’s greatest novelists of the nineteenth century, being most famous as a writer for Nana (the story of a courtesan), and in the political world for his role in exposing the frame-up of Captain Dreyfus. However, he had limited success as a dramatist until he partnered with William Busnach, an Algerian Jew. This adaptation of the Zola novel ...
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    18,76 €

  • The Tower of Death
    Alexandre Dumas / Frederic Gaillardet / Frank J. Morlock
    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
    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 €

  • Candide
    Clement Vautel / Frank J. Morlock
    Voltaire’s classic novel CANDIDE has been adapted many times through many different forms of media, but this 20th-century dramatic version is one of the best. Voltaire’s story endures because the character of Candide is capable of being moved to any time or place, and still be understood--and enjoyed--by a brand new audience. In an irrational world where only diehard optimists ...
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    16,58 €

  • The Story of a Flag
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Frank J. Morlock
    This historical play follows a group of young Frenchmen from 1796-1814, as they’re swept up in the Napoleonic Wars. Italy, Egypt, Austria, Russia, and France are mere signposts along the way in this epic drama, with the single unifying element being a flag woven by a group of French women in the mid-1790s, and carried by the soldiers throughout the entire length of their almost...
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    16,44 €

  • Madame Bovary
    Gaston Baty / Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary tells the tale of Emma Bovary, who is romantic by nature, and believes herself the equal of the heroines depicted in the romantic novels she reads. When she moves to a rural town in France, she finds herself utterly bored by country and small-town life. Although her husband is a good man, Emma has no respect for him....
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    19,19 €

  • The Two Dianas; Or, Martin Guerre
    Alexandre Dumas / Paul Meurice / Frank J. Morlock
    In mid-1500s France, Martin Guerre is determined to free his father, the Comte de Montgomery, from an unjust prison sentence. Montgomery had dared to love the King’s mistress, Diana de Poitiers; to prevent King Henry II from discovering her indiscretion, Poitiers had arranged to have Montgomery put away for life, under conditions where no one is allowed to speak to him--and no ...
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    16,49 €

  • The Women’s War
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This forgotten masterpiece, based on the Dumas novel of the same name, is set during the period following The Three Musketeers. The author skillfully depicts the confusion and brutality of the burgeoning civil war between the French Court, represented by Cardinal Mazarin (the Prime Minister) and Queen Anne of Austria (the Regent) on one side, and the wives of the princes revolt...
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    21,53 €

  • The Barricade at Clichy; Or, the Fall of Napoleon
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This powerful play deals with the aftermath of French Emperor Napoleon’s disastrous retreat from Russia in 1812, and the subsequent victory of the allied forces arrayed against him in 1814--a defeat that forced Napoleon into exile on the island of Elba. From Elba he returned to France for 'The Hundred Days' revival of his monarchy in 1815, before finally being exiled to the Sou...
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    18,50 €

  • The Corsican Brothers
    Alexandre Dumas / Eugene Grange / Frank J. Morlock
    This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas tale tells the story of two brothers, born as Siamese twins, but separated not long after birth. They’re raised by two different families, but are still able to 'feel' the emotions of the other, even at a distance. On the island of Corsica they become entwined in the long-running feud between the Orlandi and the Colonnas--a dispute that ha...
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    16,61 €

  • The Kreutzer Sonata
    Fernand Noziere / Frank J. Morlock
    This play, adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s classic 1890 novel of the same name, focuses on the relationship between a husband and wife--Poznichev and his spouse, Laura. Poznichev gradually talks himself into believing that his young wife is having an affair with a friend of the family, in a sinister form of wish fulfillment. His insane jealousy destroys not just their relationship, ...
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    16,48 €

  • Lorenzino
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas’s drama is based on an actual event--the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, Lorenzo. Lorenzino lures his relative to a trap under the pretext of providing him with a woman. He gets close to the Duke by pandering to his lusts, just so that he’ll have the oppo...
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    16,58 €

  • The Venetian
    Alexandre Dumas / Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois / Frank J. Morlock
    To save his father from execution for treason, the Bravo Giovanni agrees to act as an assassin for The Council of Ten, and ruthlessly carries out their orders for targeted killings against real or imagined enemies of the Serene Republic of Venice in Italy. Inevitably, the Council members begin using the Bravo for their own purposes. When the Count de Bellamonte lusts after a he...
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    16,58 €

  • Caligula
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Written in 1837, Caligula is one of the best nineteenth-century plays set in ancient Rome. The story of the mad, tyrannical Emperor Caligula, who reigned four years before being assassinated, is familiar to modern readers and viewers, but this version includes some new twists. Dumas makes Caligula less frightening than in real life, although he certainly qualifies as a villaino...
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    16,53 €

  • The Chevalier d’Eon and Other Short Farces from the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Theatre
    Frank J. Morlock
    Here are five short comedies from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France: The Chevalier d’Eon, by Charles Dupeuty and the Baron de Maldigny, tells of a cross-dresser at the court of King Louis XV who gets mixed up in the King’s scheme to cheat on the royal mistress, Madame Pompadour; Pregnant with Virtue and Chaste Isabelle, both by Thomas Guellette, are parades or skits, sm...
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    16,69 €

  • Sylvandire
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire. A young provincial, Roger Tancred d’Anguilem, arrives in Paris to fight a legal battle for a huge inheritance. His opponent is an Indian called Afghano, who has bribed the judges. The case appears lost unti...
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    16,54 €

  • The Queen’s Necklace
    Pierre Decourcelle / Frank J. Morlock
    While French writer Alexandre Dumas is best-known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, many critics consider his Marie-Antoinette novels to be his greatest achievement. Indeed, he was working on a dramatization of The Queen’s Necklace at the time of his death in 1870. This was never published, but French playwright Pierre Decourcelle then produced his own ver...
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    21,13 €

  • Shadwell’s Restoration Comedy
    Frank J. Morlock / Thomas Shadwell
    Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) wrote a number of comic plays during his life. His drama featured broadly-based, coarse humor, and is filled with crude-but-vibrant characters drawn from the streets of Restoration London, individuals such as sharpers, whores, and eccentrics. His work is essentially plotless, but reeks with the odor of real people. Frank J. Morlock has created a comp...
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    16,37 €

  • The Widow’s Husband and Porthos in Search of an Outfit - Two Alexandre Dumas Comedies
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Here are two short one-act comedies, one written by Alexandre Dumas and one inspired by him. 'The Widow’s Husband' was Dumas’s first venture into comedy. It’s about a woman whose husband hides himself overseas, leading their friends and family to believe that he’s dead. When he returns to France, he finds his 'widow' getting way too much attention from would-be suitors. But thi...
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    16,45 €

  • Congreve’s Comedy of Manners
    Frank J. Morlock / William Congreve
    This play distills the essence of Congreve into one stageworthy play. William Congreve wrote four comedies: 'The Way of the World' is his acknowledged masterpiece; 'Love for Love' is less brilliant but easier to perform; 'TheOld Bachelor' and 'The Double Dealer,' his early dramas, contain very good material but are rarely read let alone performed. Frank Morlock builds his own a...
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    16,40 €

  • Young Louis XIV
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Young Louis XIV (La Jeunesse de Louis XIV) is generally considered by critics to be one of Dumas’s best plays. This joyous romp through history focuses on Louis’s seizure of power in 1658, and his romance with Marie de Mancini under the oak tree. As a portrait of a young king on the verge of greatness, there’s nothing else like it except for Shakespeare’s trilogy about Prince H...
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    18,99 €

  • Cadmus and Hermione; &, Perseus
    Philippe Quinault / Frank J. Morlock
    Philippe Quinault (1635-1688) was the highest paid and most respected French librettist of his day, considered the equal of Racine. His libretti can be read as lyrical dramas without the music. The two plays included in this collection are retellings of the ancient legends of the Gods by the Roman poet Ovid. In Cadmus and Hermione, Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, rescues Hermion...
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    16,65 €

  • The King of Rome
    Charles Desnoyer / Leon Beauvallet / Frank J. Morlock
    Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Léon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. THE KING OF ROME focuses on the Emperor Napoleon’s only son, the Duke of Reichstadt, who was held a captive by his maternal grandfather, the Emperor of Austria. Fearing that he would emulate his father or be used by a Napoleonic conspiracy to capture the French th...
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    17,72 €

  • Jurgen
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the bestselling novel by James Branch Cabell, Jurgen is a philosophical fantasy in the manner of Candide, which strings together the hero’s sexual adventures into an ironic and satirical commentary on life and sex. During his travels through space and time, Jurgen encounters a number of different characters from history, and always manages to escape his follies, relyin...
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    16,57 €

  • Lord Jim
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Lord Jim tells the story of the Third Mate aboard the ship Patna. When the vessel is holed, Jim freezes and abandons his post, leaving the 800 passengers to their fate. But the ship does not sink, and although the ensuing inquest only strips Jim of his license, the imputation of cowardice is more than...
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    16,74 €

  • Oedipus
    Voltaire / Frank J. Morlock
    Voltaire (1694-1778) was a prolific French philosopher, historian, novelist, poet, essayist--and popular playwright and opera librettist. Oedipus, produced in 1718, was his first drama, a recasting of Sophocles’s play of the same name. Voltaire highlights the tension by introducing the character Philoctetes, a suitor of Queen Jocasta before she married Laius or Oedipus, and lat...
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    16,73 €


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