Nineteenth Century Theatre

Stage plays written in the 19th century.

Works:

• Arms and the Man
• The Black Crook
• Brand
• Charley's Aunt
• Cox and Box
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• The Devil's Disciple
• A Doll's House
• Emperor and Galilean
• An Enemy of the People
• Faust
  • Faust: First Part of the Tragedy
  • Faust: Second Part of the Tragedy
• The Feast at Solhaug
• Ghosts
• The Gondoliers
• The Grand Duke (the last of the Gilbert and Sullivan collaborations)
• Hedda Gabler
• H.M.S. Pinafore (credited with almost single-handedly laying the groundwork for the 20th Century musical)
• An Ideal Husband
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Inspector General
• Iolanthe
• John Gabriel Borkman
• The King Amuses Himself
• The Lady From the Sea
• Lady Inger at Austraat
• Lady Windermere's Fan
• The League of Youth
• Little Eyolf
• The Mikado
• Miss Julie
• Patience
• Peer Gynt
• The Pirates of Penzance (features the famous Major General Song)
• The Pretenders
• Princess Ida (based on Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, "The Princess")
• La Ronde
• Rosmersholm
• Manfred
• The Master Builder
• The Pillars of Society
• Ruddigore, or, "The Witch's Curse" (parodies a certain early 19th Century melodrama subgenre)
• Salome
• The Seagull
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Sorcerer (features the first of the famous Gilbert & Sullivan patter songs)
• St John's Eve
• Trial by Jury (a one-act curtain raiser, first of the Gilbert and Sullivan "main sequence")
• Ubu Roi
• Uncle Vanya
• The Warriors at Helgeland
• When We Dead Awaken
• The Wild Duck
• The Yeomen of the Guard (the only Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration to end unhappily for the protagonist)

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