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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Bernard Shaw

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Aristophanes

by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

by August Strindberg

by Molière

by Olive Tilford Dargan, Frederick Peterson

by Ernest Christopher Dowson

by Laurence Housman

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

by Susan Glaspell

by Bernard Shaw

by Percival Wilde

by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Harley Granville-Barker

by Bernard Shaw

by John Galsworthy

by Molière

by John Galsworthy

by Justus Möser

by Aristophanes

by Joseph Conrad

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

by Bernard Shaw

by Bernard Shaw

by John Galsworthy

by James Branch Cabell

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by August Strindberg

by Alfred Noyes

by Seumas O'Brien

by August Strindberg

by Richard Harding Davis

by Lord Dunsany

by Lady Gregory

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

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Eugene O'Neill

by Alfred Sutro

by Marion Craig Wentworth

by Molière

by Percival Wilde

by Floyd Dell

by Bernard Shaw

by John Galsworthy

by Hermann Hagedorn