Augustus Does His Bit

EBook Description: Augustus Does His Bit was performed for the first time at the Court Theater in London by the Stage Society on the 21st January, 1917, with Lalla Vandervelde as The Lady, F. B.J. Sharp as Lord Augustus Highcastle, and Charles Rock as Horatio Floyd Beamish.

A five-act play that compares how the lives of Caesar and Cleopatra are depicted in the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's play, "Caesar", and the film classic, "Cleopatra" in contrast to the events that actually took place in the lives of Caesar and Cleopatra.

Callipygia

STEPHANIE DANIELS, 28, journalist, asks only for a home, a job, a little fun once in awhile, and someone who truly loves her. Her insensitive boyfriend, Billy, does not. Lately, women have been on her mind, a lot she finally comes to realize. Her editor sends her to the SD Black Hills, where a large number of women have disappeared. Rumor has a lesbian sex slave camp hidden in the forest. After two months, she has no good leads. She's becoming discouraged when future lover Megan appears. Stephanie soon finds herself wondering whether her job still awaits her, as well as being responsible for two pregnant women.

Candida

Set in the northeast suburbs of London, Candida tells the story of the wife who is credited with the success of her popular Christian Socialist Reverend husband, James Mavor Morell.

Cynthia's Revels

A late Elizabethan stage play by English dramatist, Ben Jonson.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Rostand's classic drama, Cyrano de Bergerac presents a complex hero in the tradition of both the swashbuckling adventurer and the sensitive, more modern thinker and self-questioner. Cursed with ugliness but blessed with sublime wit and poetic ability, the gallant Cyrano loves his cousin Roxanne, who loves the handsome but inarticulate Christian.

Dark Lady of the Sonnets

Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw.

Dust Bowl Days

Where was Baby Face Nelson after he escaped from jail in Chicago? In this short novel, he is in Oklahoma looking for the native American that took his loot worth $70,000. Join the search for the twice stolen money in this story of depression era America.

Early Plays

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Egmont

Egmont is a political manifesto in which Egmont's craving for justice and national liberty is opposed to the despotic authority of the Duke of Alva. It is also a drama of destiny in which the Flemish nobleman, with fatalism, accepts the dire consequences of his straightness and honesty.

Every Man In His Humor

Every Man in His Humor is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. It belongs to the sub-genre of the "humours comedy", in which each major character is dominated by an overriding humor or obsession.

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