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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 Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act (New York and London: S. French, c1923), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• 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, by Aphra Behn (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Taming of the Shrew (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Taming of the Shrew (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1631 Smithwicke edition), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• The Taming of the Shrew (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (searchable HTML with commentary at shakespeare-navigators.com)
• Taming of the Shrew: A Comedy by William Shakspere, As Arranged by Augustin Daly, First Produced at Daly's Theatre, January 18, 1887, Receiving its One Hundredth Representation April 13, 1887, and Here Printed from the Prompter's Copy (Centenary edition; New York: Privately printed for Mr. Daly, 1887), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Augustin Daly, contrib. by William Winter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Candida, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• Munken Vendt (in Norwegian; Copenhagen: Gyldendal (F. Hegel and Son), 1902), by Knut Hamsun
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• All's Well That Ends Well, 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)
• The Merry Wiues of Windsor (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merry Wives of Windsor (New York et al.: American book Co., 1905), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Rolfe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Miss Lulu Bett (stage play, two endings; New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921), by Zona Gale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• 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)

• You Never Can Tell, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• A Doll's House (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1923), by Henrik Ibsen (Gutenberg text)
• A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by William Archer (text at Triton)

• 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 (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)

• Votes for Women: A Play in Three Acts, by Elizabeth Robins (HTML at Indiana)
• How the Vote Was Won: A Play in One Act (1910), by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John (page images at HathiTrust)

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