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  • Ninety-Three
    Paul Meurice / Victor Hugo / Frank J. Morlock
    The year is 1793. The newly-christened French Republic lies in ruins, besieged on all sides. The Royalist Chouans have risen against the Revolution, sparking a brutal war with no quarter offered on either side. Victor Hugo personalizes the struggle with his panoply of memorable characaters, from a peasant woman to a Republic Army Sergeant, who become first-person witnesses to t...
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    15,62 €

  • Urbain Grandier and the Devils of Loudon
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Set in 1634 France, this play tells the story of demonic possession and religious prosecution. Father Urbain Grandier is accused of witchcraft and promiscuous behavior against the nuns. Grandier appears to have genuine psychic powers, but he is innocent of his other supposed crimes. Ultimately, he’s brought to trial. One of Dumas’s most intense psychodramas. 3 ...
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    16,41 €

  • The Whites and the Blues
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    During the French Revolution, young Charles is sent to be tutored by Euloge Schneider. But Schneider has become the Public Prosecutor for the town, and is now known as a bloodthirsty monster. Only Saint Just, the Angel of Death, can save the day. The last of Dumas’s plays to be performed during his lifetime, The Whites and the Blues is an undiscovered masterpiece of suspense. ...
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    16,57 €

  • Lord Byron in Venice
    Jacques Ancelot / Frank J. Morlock
    Lord Byron in Venice reveals all the quirks and nuances of the great poet’s character at the height of his creative powers. Playwright Jacques Ancelot knew Byron personally, and the result is an excellent fictional portrayal of man and writer penned with an engaging eloquence. 3 ...
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    14,52 €

  • Mathias Sandorf
    Jules Verne / William Busnach / Frank J. Morlock
    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. 3 ...
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    16,53 €

  • The Jew of Venice
    Ferdinand Dugue / Frank J. Morlock
    This forgotten masterpiece of French drama is a reworking of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice--from the point-of-view of Shylock. Ferdinand Dugué succeeds in making the Venetian money-lender entirely believable--embittered, mercenary, tragic, and ultimately Jewish. One of the best modern adaptations of the Bard ever written. 3 ...
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    15,60 €

  • A Summer Night’s Dream
    Adolphe de Leuwen / Joseph-Bernard Rosier / Frank J. Morlock
    In this comic opera set in England, Falstaff is a friend and admirer of playwright William Shakespeare--and the same lecherous fellow we saw in Shakespeare’s Henry IV. One summer night, Queen Elizabeth goes incognito to a party given by Falstaff in honor of the Bard, who’s melancholy over a lost love. Things go rapidly downhill from there! One of the best plays ever written by ...
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    16,61 €

  • The Dream of a Summer Night
    Paul Meurice / Frank J. Morlock
    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. 3 ...
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    14,52 €

  • Les Misérables
    Paul Meurice / Victor Hugo / Frank J. Morlock
    Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean, an escaped minor fugitive who is mercilessly tracked through the decades by Police Inspector Javert. This is a careful, loving, and faithful adaptation of a classic work of fiction. 3 ...
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    15,50 €

  • Saul and David
    Voltaire / Frank J. Morlock
    This little-known play by a master storyteller is a deadpan retelling of the Biblical story of King Saul and his son-in-law and successor, King David. Voltaire’s work is an undiscovered masterpiece that deserves a wider audience. 3 ...
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    14,21 €

  • Louis XIV and the Affair of the Poisons
    Victorien Sardou / Frank J. Morlock
    In 1677 the French court was rocked by a plot to assassinate King Louis XIV. Many high-ranking noblemen and -women were implicated, including the monarch’s own mistress, Madame de Montespan, mother of his illegitimate children. 'The Affair of the Poisons,' as it came to be known, was carefully hushed up to avoid public scandal, and the perpetrators quietly disposed of. This dra...
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    16,48 €

  • Outrageous Women
    Frank J. Morlock
    These four short French plays run the gamut from tragedy to satire, from highly artificial comedy to Naturalism, and present Eve, the Eternal Woman, in a variety of poses, none of them very flattering. Contents: Lady MacBeth, by Julius Le Sire; Zubiri, by Georges de Porto Riche, based on a tale by Victor Hugo; A False Conversation, by Théophile Gautier; and Widow!, by Henri Bec...
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    16,56 €

  • The Man Who Saw the Devil
    Gastón Leroux / Frank J. Morlock
    Allan and his companions are stranded at a mountain lodge. He decides to play cards with 'The Man' himself, whose encounter with the Devil has left him with the curse of being unable to lose at gambling. Allan doesn’t believe such nonsense, but has his own strange meeting later that night--with disastrous consequences. A thrilling tale of terror and horror! 3 ...
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    14,47 €

  • The Idiot
    Frank J. Morlock
    Prince Myshkin, a sort of holy fool, stumbles into a sordid love triangle when he returns from exile to Russia. Myskhin means well, but he’s simply too good for this world, and his well-meaning intentions bring disaster on himself and those he loves. Based on the classic novel, The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 3 ...
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    15,54 €

  • Notes from the Underground
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the 1864 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground features a highly charged encounter between the nameless narrator (the 'Underground Man') and a prostitute named Lisa. A classic portrayal of the underbelly of Russian (and modern) society. 3 ...
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    14,35 €

  • Socrates
    Voltaire / Frank J. Morlock
    Voltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), uses the great philosopher Socrates’s crusty persona, trial, and death as a forum to criticize his enemies and restate his Deism. A drama that deserves a modern re-staging. 3 ...
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    14,39 €

  • Don Quixote
    Victorien Sardou / Frank J. Morlock
    In this dramatic version of Miguel de Cervantes’s classic novel, Don Quixote is driven mad by an overindulgence in fantastic romances, puts on the old family armor, grabs his faithful servant, Sancho Panza, and goes a-tilting at windmills across the Spanish landscape. 3 ...
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    16,61 €

  • Richard Darlington
    Alexandre Dumas / Prosper Dinaux / Frank J. Morlock
    This dramatization of Sir Walter Scott’s The Surgeon’s Daughter tells how an ambitious politician, Richard Darlington, murders his wife to further his political career, becoming the epitome of the saying, 'All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.' 3 ...
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    16,61 €

  • The Lily of the Valley
    Arthur de Beauplan / Theodore Barriere / Frank J. Morlock
    Based on an 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac, this play revolves around a platonic love affair between the beautiful Henriette, her much older husband, and the handsome young Félix. But such a relationship cannot be sustained forever. The only question is: who will be the first to crack under the strain? 3 ...
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    15,50 €

  • The Mysteries of Paris
    Eugène Sue / Prosper Dinaux / Frank J. Morlock
    An enormous bestseller in novel form, The Mysteries of Paris is a sprawling melodrama of the Paris underground, full of twists and turns, action and adventure, mystery and romance, and love and death. 3 ...
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    16,57 €

  • The Children of Captain Grant
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock
    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. 3 ...
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    15,53 €

  • 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 €

  • Jesus of Nazareth
    Paul Demasy / Frank J. Morlock
    French writer Paul Demasy’s strikingly modern dramatic interpretation of the life of Jesus of Nazareth focuses on the baptism of the Savior by John the Baptist, the raising of Lazarus from the dead, and the ultimate betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot. First translation into English. 3 ...
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    15,60 €

  • Crime and Punishment
    Frank J. Morlock
    Based on the classic 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, this play focuses on Raskolnikov, the self-proclaimed 'superior being,' who commits a brutal murder to show his contempt for the rest of mankind. 3 ...
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    15,60 €

  • Alexandre Dumas’ the San Felice
    Maurice Drack / Frank J. Morlock
    Adapted from Alexandre Dumas Pere’s novel, 'La San Felice,' this play is set in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies during Napoleonic times, and features tyrants, traitors, and great acts of heroism. First translation into English. 3 ...
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    15,51 €

  • The Voyage Through the Impossible
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock
    The authors combine elements of Jules Verne’s science fiction novels, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, and From the Earth to the Moon into a breathtaking work of imagination. First translation into English. 3 ...
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    17,69 €

  • Michael Strogoff
    Adolphe d'Ennery / Adolphe d’Ennery / Jules Verne / Frank J. Morlock
    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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    11,30 €

  • Falstaff
    Frank J. Morlock / John Dennis / William Shakespeare
    Frank J. Morlock has produced a play based on that great comic character, Falstaff, with scenes taken from William Shakespeare’s Henry IV cycle and The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Kendrick’s Falstaff’s Wedding, and John Dennis’s The Comical Gallant, plus original material by Morlock himself. A dramatic and comedic triumph! 3 ...
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    18,91 €

  • Anthony
    Alexandre Dumas / Frank J. Morlock
    Anthony is injured saving a beautiful girl--but can he win her love? The best-known play by French historical novelist Alexandre Dumas, translated for the first time into English. 3 ...
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    16,46 €

  • Peau de Chagrin; or, The Skin of Pain
    Louis Judicis / Frank J. Morlock
    The ancient talisman, the peau de chagrin or magic skin, has the power to grant great wealth and power to its owner--but always at a terrible cost! A fantasy play by Louis Judicis adapted from the well-known novel by Honore de Balzac. 3 ...
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    16,45 €


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