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A play: in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War, a Swiss mercenary fleeing the rout climbs into the bedroom of Raina, a romantic young Bulgarian engaged to the hero of the hour.
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Pygmalion
A play: Professor Henry Higgins, an expert in phonetics, bets his friend Colonel Pickering that he can pass Eliza Doolittle, a Covent Garden flower girl, off as a duchess within months.
Man and Superman
A play: John Tanner, a radical writer who fears marriage above all things, is made guardian of Ann Whitefield, who has quietly decided to marry him.
The Bonds of Interest
A play in the commedia dell'arte style: two penniless adventurers, the clever Crispín and his master Leandro, arrive in a rich city and talk their way into credit, society and a fortune.
The Lion and the Jewel
In the Yoruba village of Ilujinle, the schoolteacher Lakunle and Baroka, the old chief, both want to marry Sidi, the village beauty, whose photograph has just appeared in a magazine.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack calls himself Ernest in town and Algernon visits an invented invalid friend called Bunbury in the country, and their courtship of Gwendolen and Cecily, who both insist on marrying a man named Ernest, collapses into comic confusion.
The Cocktail Party
A verse play: at a cocktail party Edward Chamberlayne is trying to explain why his wife has left him, and an uninvited guest who will not give his name begins to rearrange several lives.
A Room with a View
A young woman visits Florence and discovers that passion and spontaneity offer more than the propriety she was raised to value.
Charlotte Löwensköld
In 1830s Värmland, the lively Charlotte Löwensköld is engaged to her cousin Karl-Artur, a fiercely pious young clergyman, and one careless remark about money sets both their lives on a different course.
Kornél Esti
Eighteen stories about Kornél Esti, the narrator's double, a Budapest dandy, traveller and trickster whose escapades and confessions light up the Europe between the wars.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Athens's rulers, four confused young lovers, a troupe of amateur actors rehearsing a tragedy, and a wood full of fairies collide over one summer night in the most performed comedy in English.
A Moon for the Misbegotten
A play: on a run-down Connecticut farm, Josie Hogan, a big, bold farm woman, and her scheming father plot to keep their land from Jim Tyrone, the drinking landlord she secretly loves.
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Andy, a stand-up comedian in London on the edge of forty, is dumped by Jen, the love of his life, and sets out to work out what went wrong.