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  • Moliere
    George Sand / Frank J. Morlock
    George Sand, the nineteenth-century French feminist and writer (1804-1876), wrote many well-known novels, but her dramatic work, although equally compelling, is much less known to modern audiences. Molière is one of the best plays about a literary figure ever written, and is one of the few dramas about the playwright that isn’t limited to a single incident or aspect of his life...
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    16,58 €

  • Justine
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the Marquis de Sade’s infamous novel of the same name, this new dramatic version of JUSTINE closely follows the original story, both in spirit and in action. De Sade, with his relentless logic, attempts to prove that 'virtue' as practiced by most people actually contradicts nature. The innocent maiden Justine suffers one humiliation and setback after another in her fut...
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    15,66 €

  • Peter and Alexis
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the novel by Russian writer Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1867-1941), Morlock’s dramatic adaptation tells the tragic story of Russian Tsar Peter the Great’s conflict with his only surviving son and heir, Tsarevitch Alexis. Peter, an autocrat who was determined to modernize Russia at all costs, dealt brutally with any opposition--but found his most stubborn and potent resistance...
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    18,91 €

  • Under Western Eyes
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on a novel by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Under Western Eyes tells the story of Razumov, a Russian student indirectly involved in the assassination of a Tsarist minister. Haldin, the man who committed the murder, seeks asylum with Razumov--and his assistance in escaping Russia. Razumov has no sympathy for his friend, and gives him up to the Okhrana (the secret police). Rel...
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    15,64 €

  • Oblomov
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on a novel by the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, this dramatic comedy features his eponymous hero, Oblomov. A young man of considerable decency and kindness (with a 'soul as clear as crystal'), Oblomov has fallen into such a state of lethargy that he resists even getting out of bed, finding every excuse possible to do absolutely nothing. All the efforts of his male and fe...
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    16,45 €

  • The Princess Casamassima
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the 1885 novel by Henry James, this play tells the story of Hyacinth Robinson, the bastard son of a French woman and an English lord. Robinson has become a bookbinder in the London working-class slums. He embraces radicalism, and joins a conspiracy of anarchists plotting to assassinate high-ranking members of the establishment. But when he’s actually given a terrorist ...
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    16,45 €

  • Bohemia; Or, La Boheme
    Henri Murger / Theodore Barriere / Frank J. Morlock
    Henry Murger wrote a series of popular short stories in the late 1840s describing the poverty of the young artists of his generation in Paris, basing them on his personal experiences. These were adapted for the stage by Théodore Barrière in 1857. The play follows the fortunes of several young people, including Marcel (a painter), Musette (his promiscuous lover), Rodolphe (a wri...
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    16,36 €

  • Fathers and Sons
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on Ivan Turgenev’s novel of the same name, Frank J. Morlock’s new play clearly dramatizes the societal divisions in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, deftly contrasting the defenders of the old regime with the younger generation of no-nonsense nihilists who will eventually succeed them. Nicolai and Pavel represent the older values (Nicolai softly, Pavel somewhat rigidly), wh...
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    18,88 €

  • A Fairy Tale
    Adolphe De Leuven / Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    If ever a scorned woman gets her revenge on a man, the Marquise is a model of the type! She cleverly forces him to marry her (for her fortune, of course!), and then gets him framed for murdering her. And, in the end, she comes to his rescue, nimbly extricating him from the trap she’s prepared for him. You don’t want to cross this lady! A Fairy Tale (Un Conte de fées) was one of...
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    16,61 €

  • Faust
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Frank J. Morlock
    French dramatist Adolphe d’Ennery (1811-1899) follows the Faust story originally developed by Goethe, but with a leavening of humor that the German playwright lacked. Especially entertaining is the character of the female demon Sulphurine, who’s created by Faust’s servant Wagner to be his slave. Needless to say, this she-devil is no one’s mistress! Faust initially repels the ad...
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    17,64 €

  • The Red and the Black
    Frank J. Morlock / Stendhal
    Based on the novel by Stendhal (Henri Beyle, 1783-1842), The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a talented and ambitious young peasant. Sorel manages to cynically and hypocritically manipulate those around him to gain a position as a secretary with a prominent Marquis--and to seduce his employer’s beautiful daughter, Mathilde. But he doesn’t love Mathilde--doesn...
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    16,70 €

  • The Death of Caesar
    Voltaire / Frank J. Morlock
    Voltaire’s 'The Death of Caesar' ('Mort de César,' 1735) is often erroneously described as a reworking of the first three acts of William Shakespeare’s 'Julius Caesar.' Instead, Voltaire rewrote the text in its entirety, using a different approach that focuses on the act of tyrannicide, with the complication that Caesar has revealed to Brutus that the latter is actually his son...
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    14,24 €

  • Chuzzlewit
    Frank J. Morlock
    In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge estate to charity, Pecksniff travels from London to America to dissuade the dying man from such a mistake. But Old Martin is far from death’s door, and is planning from pure spite to swindle the relatives he loathes out of all their money. To do this he employs Montague Tigg, a honey-tongued confidence man w...
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    16,61 €

  • The Hunchback
    Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois / Paul Féval / Frank J. Morlock
    Henri de Lagardere, the best swordsman in France, suddenly finds himself duty-bound to protect the baby female heir of a murdered friend--a girl who matures into a beautiful woman who will one day inherit a princely fortune--a girl with whom Henri falls madly in love. But his affection is hopeless: the difference in their ages and stations in life precludes any permanent liaiso...
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    16,61 €

  • The Marquis de Sade
    Charles Mere / Frank J. Morlock
    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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    17,73 €

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Four
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    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
    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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    16,40 €

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Two
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    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
    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
    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 Last of the Three Musketeers; Or, the Prisoner of the Bastille
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    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 Marriage of Hamlet
    Jean Sarment / Frank J. Morlock
    In this fantasy play, the prophet Abraham prevails upon God Almighty to restore Hamlet and his friends to life, seventeen years after the events recorded in William Shakespeare’s classic drama, Hamlet. Thus, the great tragic hero now has a chance to redeem himself, and to find some happiness (perhaps!). Charming, clever, and full of wit, this drama is perhaps the most original ...
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    16,47 €

  • I Never Cheat on My Husband
    Georges Feydeau / Frank J. Morlock
    Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) wrote some 60 comedies, farces, and comic monologues; I Never Cheat on My Husband was one of his last productions (1914). Often considered the greatest French comic genius since Molière, Feydeau wrote frequently about the relations between men and women in modern society. In this play, the professional artist and sexual predator, Saint Franquet, begi...
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    18,74 €

  • Cleopatra
    Victorien Sardou / Frank J. Morlock
    Following the death of Julius Caesar, Egyptian Queen Cleopatra must deal with his successor, Mark Anthony. The two soon fall in love, and establish a great eastern empire to rival that of Rome’s. But Anthony’s partner and Caesar’s heir, Octavian, has other things in mind. When Anthony is defeated by Octavian at Actium, the beautiful Cleopatra must confront her new, younger mast...
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    16,57 €

  • Napoleon Bonaparte
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    One of Alexandre Dumas’s first successful historical plays (1831), Napoleon Bonaparte tells the story of the great Emperor’s rise to power during the French Revolution--and his eventual fall and death--tying his story to the rise and fall of France during the same period. This is the first translation of this major historical work into English. 3 ...
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    17,44 €

  • The Three Musketeers
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    This classic tale of political intrigue, murder, romance, and high drama is set during the weak reign of King Louis XIII of France. Cardinal Richelieu is gathering the reins of power into his cold, ruthless hands, aided by Milady de Winter and Rochefort. Opposing him are Queen Anne and the Three Musketeers--Athos, Porthos, and Aramis--together with the young D’Artagnan. One of ...
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    21,68 €

  • The Boss-Lady
    Paul Féval / Frank J. Morlock
    The French are keeping the son of the King of Poland in protective custody. Czar Peter the Great, who covets Poland, sends agents to France to kill the heir, but the Polish resistance wants Prince Stanislaw to return home and lead the opposition. The Russians need the help of the Boss-Lady, Rosalie, to further their schemes--but the former innkeeper boasts that she only acts in...
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    16,59 €

  • Isis
    Philippe Quinault / Frank J. Morlock
    It’s not often that a classical myth causes a major scandal and lands a librettist in trouble with his royal mistress, but such was the case with this retelling of Jupiter’s love affair with the nymph Io. One of Quinault’s greatest dramas. 3 ...
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    14,39 €

  • Atys
    Philippe Quinault / Frank J. Morlock
    In this play based on Greek mythology, Atys hides his love for the nymph Sangride under a mask of indifference. But the nymph actually dotes on Atys, and tells him so. Atys allows his feelings to override common sense, and seeks the help of the goddess Cybele to assist the lovers, unaware that the goddess also loves him. The result is a classic Greek tragedy. 3 ...
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    14,53 €

  • Alcestis
    Philippe Quinault / Frank J. Morlock
    In this remarkable fantasy play, the great Greek demi-god hero, Hercules (here called Alcidas) must make a journey into the depths of Hell itself in order to rescue Alcestis from death and destruction. French author Philippe Quinault (1635-1688) wrote numerous tragedies, comedies, and opera librettos. First translation into English. 3 ...
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    14,33 €


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