bookshelf
Step into a stage where everything happens at once: comedy snaps, tragedy strikes, and a single conversation can change a life. This bookshelf gathers one-act plays that move with lightning speed, from sharp farce and biting wit to lyrical dreamscapes and haunting loss. Each curtain rises on a world complete in itself—and drops before you’ve caught your breath.

by Rabindranath Tagore

by Rabindranath Tagore

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Bernard Shaw

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Aristophanes

by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

by Olive Tilford Dargan, Frederick Peterson

by August Strindberg

by Ernest Christopher Dowson

by Molière

by Laurence Housman

by Percival Wilde

by Bernard Shaw

by Bernard Shaw

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

by Susan Glaspell

by Joseph Conrad

by John Galsworthy

by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Harley Granville-Barker

by Bernard Shaw

by Molière

by August Strindberg

by John Galsworthy

by Bernard Shaw

by John Galsworthy

by Aristophanes

by Justus Möser

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Richard Harding Davis

by James Branch Cabell

by Seumas O'Brien

by Alfred Noyes

by August Strindberg

by Lewis Beach, Alice Gerstenberg, Edward Goodman, Philip Moeller

by Lord Dunsany

by Percival Wilde

by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Apthorp) McFadden, Raymond MacDonald Alden

by Lady Gregory

by Marion Craig Wentworth

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Alfred Sutro

by Eugene O'Neill

by Floyd Dell

by Molière

by Bernard Shaw

by Hermann Hagedorn

by John Galsworthy