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.
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 ...
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.
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, ...
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.
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...
Scotland, 1648. Sir William Clifford expects to receive the vast Ruthven estates after the death of the old Lord, but a young man suddenly appears, claiming to the be the new Lord Ruthven, and also claiming the hand of the beautiful Anna Clifford in marriage. Only Anna's lover, Dr. Maxwell, knows the handsome stranger's ghastly secret--that he is a vampire returned from the grave The origins of the accursed Lord Ruthven are finally revealed for the first time in Volume 3 of this unique trilogy (LORD RUTHVEN THE VAMPYRE and THE RETURN OF LORD RUTHVEN), which includes Lord Ruthven Begins, an...
Scotland, 1648. Sir William Clifford expects to receive the vast Ruthven estates after the death of the old Lord, but a young man suddenly appears, cl...
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 center of French politics and intrigue under King Louis XIV. The play retains all the flavor and excitement of the Dumas originals, coming to a surprising climax worthy of the Master himself.
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 ...
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 hes arrested for delivering a letter to Elba--a dying request of his former captain. Then three men conspire to send the innocent youth to the notorious island prison, the Chateau dIf. There Dantes meets the Abbe Faria, who gives him an education, and tells him of a fabulous treasure hes discovered. But Faria...
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 Fren...
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 dIf 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. Then he begins his odyssey of revenge, tracking down Caderousse and his wife, La Carconte, and finding the trail of Villefort, another of his betrayers. He also secretly helps his former employer, Mr. Morel. But he has...
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...
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 deaths 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 who has, up to this point, had little worldly success despite his many talents. He pretends to be an English lord, a man of means whos the foundation of the Anglo-American Disinterested Life Insurance Company--which, of...
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 dyi...
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 later a companion to Hercules. Philoctetes returns to Thebes, which is being punished by the gods because King Laius's murderer has not yet been punished--and becomes the chief suspect in the crime. Young King Oedipus is...
Voltaire (1694-1778) was a prolific French philosopher, historian, novelist, poet, essayist--and popular playwright and opera librettist. Oedipus, pro...
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 young nobleman who loves the daughter of a political prisoner that the former Chancellor of Norway has held in thrall for many years. The tension ratchets up, culminating in a conflagration a la Samson that seems to...
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 outla...
