Why this topic, why these plays
The plays gathered under "Great Britain" share a recurring thematic preoccupation that, across 27 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 (27)
- Mrs. Warren's Profession — by Bernard Shaw
- Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce — by Bernard Shaw
- Press Cuttings — by Bernard Shaw
- Plays and Puritans — by Charles Kingsley
- Peg Woffington — by Charles Reade
- Edward the Second — by Christopher Marlowe
- The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield — by Edward Robins
- The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections — by Ellen Terry
- Mary Stuart: A Tragedy — by Friedrich Schiller
- The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy) — by John Galsworthy
- 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors — by Mark Twain
- Intentions — by Oscar Wilde
- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829 — by Various
- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 — by Various
- Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk — by Walter Savage Landor
- King Henry VI, Part 1 — by William Shakespeare
- King Henry VI, Part 2 — by William Shakespeare
- King Henry VI, Part 3 — by William Shakespeare
- King Richard III — by William Shakespeare
- King John — by William Shakespeare
- King Richard II — by William Shakespeare
- King Henry IV, Part 1 — by William Shakespeare
- King Henry IV, Part 2 — by William Shakespeare
- King Henry V — by William Shakespeare
- Cymbeline — by William Shakespeare
- King Henry VIII — by William Shakespeare
- King Henry V Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre — by William Shakespeare