Why this topic, why these plays
The plays gathered under "England" share a recurring thematic preoccupation that, across 14 different scripts in our archive, has produced a remarkable variety of theatrical solutions. Reading them in proximity to one another is one of the more useful comparative exercises a student of dramatic writing can do, because the contrasts in tone, structure, and resolution show how much choice a playwright really has, even when the underlying subject is the same. The list below collects the works in our library that catalogue indexers identified with this subject; in some cases the connection is overt and in others oblique, but in every case the thematic affinity is real and worth pursuing.
All plays on this topic (14)
- Misalliance — by Bernard Shaw
- You Never Can Tell — by Bernard Shaw
- Heartbreak House — by Bernard Shaw
- The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy — by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
- Plays : First Series — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : Second Series — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : Third Series — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : Fourth Series — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : Fifth Series — by John Galsworthy
- Six Short Plays — by John Galsworthy
- The Disguising at Hertford — by John Lydgate
- The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — by Oscar Wilde
- The School for Scandal — by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Our American Cousin — by Tom Taylor