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• A Pageant of Great Women (London: The Suffrage Shop, 1910), by Cicely Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Convent of Pleasure (as first published in 'Plays, never before printed'; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1668), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother (original 1700; modern acting edition edited for the Snarks Ltd., 1999), by Mary Pix, ed. by Sally Scanlon (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• The Creditor: A Play in One Act (London: Hendersons, 1914), by August Strindberg, trans. by Horace B. Samuel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1914), by A. E. W. Mason
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ihminen ja Yli-Ihminen: Komedia ja Filosofia (Man and Superman in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1906), by Bernard Shaw, trans. by Aino Malmberg (Gutenberg text)
• A Kiss for Cinderella: A Comedy (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1920), by J. M. Barrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Kiss for Cinderella: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by J. M. Barrie
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Lost Silk Hat, by Lord Dunsany (PDF at astorialand.com)
• Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, by Bernard Shaw
  • with "Revolutionist" appendices; HTML at Bartleby
  • introduction and play only; Gutenberg text
• The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy (fourth edition; Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Co., ca. 1899), by Samuel Eberly Gross (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Penelope: A Comedy in Three Acts (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
• Pygmalion, by Bernard Shaw
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Sir Patient Fancy: A Comedy As it is Acted at the Dukes Theatre (London: Printed by E. Flesher for R. Tonson, 1678), by Aphra Behn (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act (New York and London: S. French, c1923), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• To See Ourselves: A Domestic Comedy in Three Acts (c1931), by E. M. Delafield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Candida, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
• Candida (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1909), by Bernard Shaw, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• The Cat and the Canary: A Melodrama in Three Acts (London and New York: S. French, ca. 1954), by John Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Reunion In Vienna: A Play in Three Acts (c1932), by Robert E. Sherwood (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Convent of Pleasure (as first published in 'Plays, never before printed'; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1668), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Cat and the Canary: A Melodrama in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1927), by John Willard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• The Country Wife, by William Wycherley (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Country-Wife: A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal (London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1675), by William Wycherley (HTML in Canada)
• The Country-Wife: A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal (London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1688), by William Wycherley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Epicoene, by Ben Jonson (Gutenberg text)
• Lady Audley's Secret: An Original Version of Miss Braddon's Popular Novel (play script in two acts; London and New York: S. French, n.d.), by C. H. Hazlewood, contrib. by M. E. Braddon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miss Lulu Bett: An American Comedy of Manners (stage play, two endings; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1921), by Zona Gale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Quality Street: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1920), by J. M. Barrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Quality Street: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1923), by J. M. Barrie (Gutenberg text)

• Quality Street: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1920), by J. M. Barrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Quality Street: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1923), by J. M. Barrie (Gutenberg text)
• Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1914), by A. E. W. Mason
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• No Name: A Drama in Five Acts, by William Bayle Bernard, contrib. by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
• No Name: A Drama, in Four Acts, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)

• The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• Ei Sitä voi Koskaan Tietää (You Never Can Tell in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1909), by Bernard Shaw, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• You Never Can Tell, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• Isola, or, The Disinherited: A Revolt for Woman and All the Disinherited (London: Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1902), by Florence Dixie, contrib. by George Jacob Holyoake
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• How the Vote Was Won: A Play in One Act (1910), by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• No Name: A Drama in Five Acts, by William Bayle Bernard, contrib. by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
• No Name: A Drama, in Four Acts, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)

• Craig's Wife: A Drama (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1926), by George Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Love and Intrigue: A Bourgeois Tragedy (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Friedrich Schiller, ed. by Flora Kimmich, contrib. by Roger Paulin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy, by Friedrich Schiller (Gutenberg text)

• The Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes, Acted at Athens in the Year B.C. 410: The Greek Text Revised, With a Free Translation into English Verse, Introduction and Commentary (in Greek and English; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1905), by Aristophanes, ed. by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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