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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)
The famous tale told in familiar words to familiar tunes.
Author(s):
Louis Napoleon Parker
William Routledge
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
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)
Henry IV, Part II (1908)
In this comic masterpiece by Shakespeare (or is it the Earl of Oxford?) Prince Hal comes to reject Falstaff the companion of his youth. Frontis by Rackham is included in the one volume Kingsway Shakespeare.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream (1908)
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham