About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 225. Not illustrated. Chapters: 1900 Plays, 1901 Plays, 1902 Plays, 1903 Plays, 1904 Plays, 1905 Plays, 1906 Plays, 1907 Plays, 1908 Plays, 1909 Plays, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Three Sisters, Caesar and Cleopatra, Uncle Vanya, the House of Mirth, the Fairy's Dilemma, Liliom, a Flea in Her Ear, the Playboy of the Western World, Major Barbara, Kuolema, La Ronde, the Admirable Crichton, the Squaw Man, a Dream Play, Quality Street, the Blue Bird, the Living Corpse, Mrs Dane's Defence, the Lower Depths, Anne Pedersdotter, What Every Woman Knows, How He Lied to Her Husband, the Ghost Sonata, Riders to the Sea, Spreading the News, Diarmuid and Grania, the Man From Blankley's, the Doctor's Dilemma, Beau Brocade, the Scarecrow, Gertrud, the Wedding, Farces et Moralites, John Bull's Other Island, Man and Superman, the Melting Pot, the Dance of Death, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Summerfolk, Waste, Children of the Sun, the Dynasts, in the Shadow of the Glen, the Well of the Saints, the Whip, the Tinker's Wedding, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, the Immortal Hour, Pandora's Box, Diana of Dobson's, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, the Good Hope, Getting Married, the Voysey Inheritance, the Truth, the New York Idea, Sag Harbor, the Great Highway, the Pretty Sister of Jose, 'op O' Me Thumb, The-Merry-Go-Round. Excerpt: The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorro or Batman. The play was produced and adapted by Julia Neilson and Fred Terry. It first opened on 15 October 1903 at Nottinghams Theatre Royal; it was not a success. Terry, however, had confidence in the play and, with a rewritten last act, took it to London where it opened at ...
