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Play Genre
Books in the Play genre:
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Joseph Grimaldi
Thomas Egerton Wilks
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
W. Greatbach
S. Raven
The Children’s Musical Cinderella (1879)
Author(s):
Louis Napoleon Parker
William Routledge
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The First of May: A Fairy Masque (1881)
A tour de force of illustration, the writing not so much. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
John R. Wise
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Echoes of Hellas (1887)
Author(s):
George C. W. Warr
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Tempest (1893)
Eight illustrations to The Tempest. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1894)
Mock heroics from the ancient Greek. The attribution to Homer is doubted by some. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Homer
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona (1894)
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1894)
A collection of eight drawings for the Shakespeare comedy featuring the fat knight, Sir John Falstaff.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Pippa Passes (1898)
A verse drama: “God’s in His heaven, All’s right with the world.” Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Robert Browning
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Tales from Shakespeare (1899)
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
A World in a Garden (1899)
Author(s):
R. Neish
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Macgregor
Arthur Rackham
Et al
The Wild Animal Play (1900)
Author(s):
Daniel Gregory Mason
Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
The “Little Folks” Plays (1903)
Contains plays of Cinderella and Rumplestiltzkin and Dummling.
Author(s):
Maggie Browne
Miranda Hill
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Arthur Rackham
Et al
The Story of the Tempest (1904)
Author(s):
Alice Spencer Hoffman
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Et al
Twenty Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (1907)
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream (1908)
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Tales from Shakespeare (1909)
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods (1911)
The conclusion of “The Ring” cycle. A tale of murder, theft and depravity ends badly for all concerned.
Author(s):
Richard Wagner
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Revolt: A Play in One Act (1912)
The suffragettes prepare to take over the world. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
God's Little Tumbler (1916)
Author(s):
Louise Collier Willcox
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson