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Play Genre
Books in the Play genre:
Tales from Shakespeare (1918)
A celebrated collection of prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Snickerty Nick (1919)
Author(s):
Witter Bynner
Julia Ellsworth Ford
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Children’s Stories from Shakespeare (1921)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
J. H. Bacon
Harold Copping
Et al
Comus (1921)
Author(s):
John Milton
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Tales from Shakespeare (1922)
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Shippen Green
Crossings: A Fairy Play (1923)
A rather difficult play for children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
C. Armstrong Gibbs
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Tales from Shakespeare (1923)
Seventeen favorite plays by the Bard of Avon.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Peggy’s Playhouses (1924)
Peggy goes on a ten-week vacation with her Aunt Madge and discovers new playhouses wherever they go.
Author(s):
Clara W. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Knave of Hearts (1925)
A play for children based on the nursery rhyme. Maxfield Parrish’s masterwork. It was also published in a spiral-bound edition in 1935-6.
Author(s):
Louise Saunders
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
The Tempest (1926)
“Full fathom five, thy father lies,
His bones are coral made …”
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Kingsway Shakespeare (1927)
This one-volume edition of the plays and poems includes fourteen illustrations, two by Rackham.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
The Story of Mr. Punch (1929)
A history of the Punch and Judy show.
Author(s):
Octave Feuillet
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Three Comedies (1929)
This volume includes The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest and As You Like It. Some copies have color illustrations as well as black and white.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
U 97 (1931)
At the time of the Cuxhaven mutiny, a German U-boat attempts to attack the British grand fleet at Scapa Flow. A play in three acts.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Charming Sally (1932)
An English theatrical troupe visits the American colonies. Find at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Nurse Cavell (1933)
A play based on the life of Edith Cavell, a British nurse working in Belgium during World War I who was shot by a German military tribunal for assisting allied soldiers to escape to neutral Holland.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Presenting Lily Mars (1933)
The story of a small town Midwestern girl who becomes a Broadway star.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Harve Stein
Payment Deferred (1934)
Author(s):
Jeffrey Dell
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
Snickerty Nick & the Giant (1935)
Author(s):
Julia Ellsworth Ford
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Marionettes at Home (1936)
A writer on his hobby.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Photographs