52 Ebooks by Frank J. Morlock
Frank J. Morlock: Chuzzlewit
In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge fortune to charity, Pecksniff travels from London to America to dissuade the dying man from such a mistake. But Old Martin is …
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Alexandre Dumas & Frank J. Morlock: Count of Monte Cristo, Part One
This dramatization of the classic novel is the first of four parts. In 1815 Napoleon has fled to Elba, and the Bourbons have been restored to the French throne. Young Edmond Dantes is First Mate and …
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Alexandre Dumas & Frank J. Morlock: Count of Monte Cristo, Part Two: The Resurrection of Edmond Dantes
The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, has been converted by the author into a series of four plays. In PART TWO, Edmond Dantes has escaped from the dreaded …
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Alexandre Dumas & Frank J. Morlock: Count of Monte Cristo, Part Three
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of all time. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also adapted his novel into four riveting plays. Part Three: The Rise of Monte Cristo is …
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Alexandre Dumas: Count of Monte Cristo, Part Four
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of the nineteenth century. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also converted many of his fictions into riveting dramas, dividing his …
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Voltaire: Candide: A Play in Five Acts
Voltaire’s classic novel CANDIDE has been adapted many times through many different forms of media, but this 20th-century dramatic version is one of the best. Voltaire’s story endures because the …
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Alexandre Dumas: Bathilda: A Play in Three Acts
Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from a script by Auguste Maquet, BATHILDA tells the story of a woman who’s raped by Marcel, and becomes his lover for a time. After she leaves him and moves to Paris, she …
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Alexandre Dumas: Sylvandire: A Play in Four Acts
In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire. A young provincial, Roger …
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Frank J. Morlock & Thomas Shadwell: Shadwell’s Restoration Comedy: A Play in Three Acts
Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) wrote a number of comic plays during his life. His drama featured broadly-based, coarse humor, and is filled with crude-but-vibrant characters drawn from the streets of …
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Alexandre Dumas: Queen’s Necklace
While French writer Alexandre Dumas is best-known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, many critics consider his Marie-Antoinette novels to be his greatest achievement. Indeed, he …
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James Branch Cabell & Frank J. Morlock: Jurgen: A Play in Three Acts
Based on the bestselling novel by James Branch Cabell, Jurgen is a philosophical fantasy in the manner of Candide, which strings together the hero’s sexual adventures into an ironic and satirical …
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William Congreve & Frank J. Morlock: Congreve’s Comedy of Manners
This play distills the essence of Congreve into one stageworthy play. William Congreve wrote four comedies: The Way of the World is his acknowledged masterpiece; Love for Love is less brilliant but …
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Philippe Quinault: "Cadmus and Hermione" and "Perseus"
Philippe Quinault (1635-1688) was the highest paid and most respected French librettist of his day, considered the equal of Racine. His libretti can be read as lyrical dramas without the music. The …
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€4.33
Charles Desnoyer: King of Rome
Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Leon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. THE KING OF ROME focuses on the Emperor Napoleon’s only son, the Duke of …
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Alexandre Dumas & Eugene Grange: Corsican Brothers: A Play in Three Acts
This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas tale tells the story of two brothers, born as Siamese twins, but separated not long after birth. They’re raised by two different families, but are still able to …
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Philippe Quinault: Armida & Amadis & Roland
In these three librettos, Philippe Quinault turns from classical opera to medieval legends–Renaud and Armida, Amadis and Oriana, and Angelica and Roland–exploring the tensions between love and …
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Alexandre Dumas: Lorenzino
This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas’s drama is based on an actual event–the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, …
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Frank J. Morlock & The Marquis de Sade: Justine
Based on the Marquis de Sade’s infamous novel of the same name, this new dramatic version of JUSTINE closely follows the original story, both in spirit and in action. De Sade, with his relentless …
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Stendhal & Frank J. Morlock: Red and the Black
Based on the novel by Stendhal (Henri Beyle, 1783-1842), The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a talented and ambitious young peasant. Sorel manages to cynically and hypocritically …
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Joseph Conrad & Frank J. Morlock: Under Western Eyes
Based on a novel by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), "Under Western Eyes" tells the story of Razumov, a Russian student indirectly involved in the assassination of a Tsarist minister. Haldin, the …
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Frank J. Morlock & Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
Based on Ivan Turgenev’s novel of the same name, Frank J. Morlock’s new play clearly dramatizes the societal divisions in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, deftly contrasting the defenders of the old …
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€4.38
Ivan Goncharov & Frank J. Morlock: Oblomov
Based on a novel by the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, this dramatic comedy features his eponymous hero, Oblomov. A young man of considerable decency and kindness (with a "soul as clear as …
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Frank J. Morlock: Princess Casamassima
Based on the 1885 novel by Henry James, this play tells the story of Hyacinth Robinson, the bastard son of a French woman and an English lord. Robinson has become a bookbinder in the London …
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Noel le Breton: Doctor Scratch and Other Plays
Three French comedies revolving around marriage, misidentification, medicine–and money!DOCTOR SCRATCH, by Nol le Breton, is a clever and hilarious farce, in which love becomes hopelessly entangled …
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Georges Feydeau: I Never Cheat on My Husband
Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) wrote some 60 comedies, farces, and comic monologues; I Never Cheat on My Husband was one of his last productions (1914). Often considered the greatest French comic genius …
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Alexandre Dumas & Frederic Gaillardet: Tower of Death: A Play in Five Acts
Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas’s greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain.Queen Marguerite …
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Emile Augier: Sappho: An Opera Libretto
Emile Augier presents the story of SAPPHO, another tragedy set in classical times, full of betrayal and self-sacrifice. Ancient Greek drama had much in common with modern opera, emphasizing story …
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Jean-Francois Marmontel: Penelope: An Opera Libretto
PENELOPE, by Jean-Francois Marmontel, tells the story of Ulysses’ return to Ithaca after his long journey home from Troy, and how he takes revenge on the boorish suitors of his wife, Penelope, who …
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Pierre Bernard: Castor and Pollux: An Opera Libretto
In CASTOR AND POLLUX, by Pierre Bernard, one of the twins from ancient myth attempts to rescue his brother from the underworld. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is …
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Alexandre Dumas & Emmanuel Theaulon: Mad Marquis
Written in 1836, this collaborative play is based on a real-life incident, using the actual names of the principals involved. The young Marquis de Brunoy is snubbed at the French Royal Court of …
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Ferdinand Dugue: Tiberius Caesar — A Play in Five Acts
Frank J. Morlock’s English-language translation and adaptation of Ferdinand Dugue’s 1881 play "Tibere: drame en cinq actes (huit tableaux)" chronicles the events in the life of Roman …
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Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois: Casper Hauser
In 1828 a young man in rags appeared in the German city of Nurnberg, saying that he’d been kept isolated in a dungeon all of his life. Was he the bastard offshoot of some noble or royal family, …
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Voltaire & Louis Lurine: Two Voltairean Plays: The Triumvirate and Comedy at Ferney
Set in Roman times, Voltaire’s play THE TRIUMVIRATE details a meeting on an island between Anthony and Octavian, in which the two main players in the post-Caesar Roman world decide how to divide up …
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Olympias; and, The Temple of Glory: Two Plays
OLYMPIAS is one of Voltaire’s most powerful tragedies. It’s based on the suspicion that King Alexander the Great was poisoned, and left an infant daughter, Olympias, by his Persian wife Statira, …
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Frank J. Morlock: Old Creole Days
The nineteenth-century Southern writer (George Washington Cable) who wrote the stories on which this play is based was born in New Orleans, and the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of that …
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Theophile Gautier & Bernard Lopez: Saving the Queen
Well-known French writer Theophile Gautier and Bernard Lopez combine their talents in this send-up of the cloak-and-sword dramas so popular with the Romantics. When the Spanish Queen’s horse runs …
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Emile Zola: L’Assommoir: A Play in Five Acts
Emile Zola (1840-1902) was one of France’s greatest novelists of the nineteenth century, being most famous as a writer for Nana (the story of a courtesan), and in the political world for his role in …
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Pierrie de Marivaux: Isle of Slaves and Other Plays
Here are three French plays from the Enlightenment Period dealing with the subject of slavery. ISLE OF SLAVES, by Pierre de Marivaux, is the longest and most challenging of the three. It postulates …
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Robert Hichens & Frank J. Morlock: Prophet of Berkeley Square: A Play in Five Acts
Based on the novel of the same title by the British writer, Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950), THE PROPHET OF BERKELEY SQUARE is a send-up of the astrology and psychic reading craze that so permeated …
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Voltaire: Agathocles
In AGATHOCLES the two sons of the King of Syracuse (Agathocles) strive for the hand of the same girl, and the elder is killed by the younger. The ruler can only avenge his loss by sacrificing his …
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Voltaire: Two Wine Casks
In THE TWO WINE CASKS, a spurned priest of Bacchus switches the wine cups at a wedding to avenge himself on the woman he loves, who’s marrying another. The enchanted vintage makes her hate her …
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Victor Hugo: Hans of Iceland: A Play in Three Acts
Based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name (penned when the author was only twenty-one), this macabre play begins in a morgue. The fearsome outlaw, Hans of Iceland, whose face has been seen by …
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Alexandre Dumas: Gold Thieves
Dr. Ivans, unable to make a living in London, migrates with his two daughters to Australia, where he hopes to make his fortune; one of his girls, Melida, is forced to leave her suitor, Williams, …
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Frank J. Morlock: Venetian
To save his father from execution for treason, the Bravo Giovanni agrees to act as an assassin for The Council of Ten, and ruthlessly carries out their orders for targeted killings against real or …
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky & Frank J. Morlock: Peter and Alexis
Based on the novel by Russian writer Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1867-1941), Morlock’s dramatic adaptation tells the tragic story of Russian Tsar Peter the Great’s conflict with his only surviving son and …
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Voltaire: Death of Caesar
Voltaire’s The Death of Caesar (Mort de Cesar, 1735) is often erroneously described as a reworking of the first three acts of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Instead, Voltaire rewrote the text …
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Adolphe d’Ennery: Faust
French dramatist Adolphe d’Ennery (1811-1899) follows the Faust story originally developed by Goethe, but with a leavening of humor that the German playwright lacked. Especially entertaining is the …
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Joseph Mery: Herculaneum & Sardanapalus: Two Opera Libretti
Two opera libretti focusing on the theme of the fiery sacrifice of the protagonists. HERCULANEUM, by Joseph Mery, a friend of Alexandre Dumas, is set in 79 A.D. in the doomed city of Herculaneum. …
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Alexandre Dumas: Queen Margot: A Play in Five Acts
Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre of the French Huguenots–and the subsequent death of …
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Moliere: Cyrano and Moliere
After his death, Moliere was gradually recognized in France as that country’s most important dramatist. Along with this realization came a desire to write plays ABOUT the writer, his life on the …
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Voltaire: The Duke of Alençon
THE DUKE OF ALENÇON tells a tale of medieval France. Two princely brothers, Alençon and Nemours, both love Adelaide; their murderous rage for each other threatens to tear the country apart. Tragedy …
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