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From Shakepeare to Synge to Wilde to Kleist to Moliere to Ibsen to Goethe to Schiller to Gilbert and Sullivan, this CD, intended for use with Windows PCs, contains 215 plays by 47 playwrights. These plays are in plain-text format, organized for easy access. Highlights from the table of contents: Anonymous -- Everyman Aristophanes -- The Acharnians; The Birds; The Clouds; Peace John Beaumont -- The Theatre of Apollo Georg Buchner -- Dantons Tod, Woyzeck (both in German) Pedro Calderon de la Barca -- Life is a Dream; The Purgatory of St. Patrick; The Wonder-Working Magician Anton Chekhov -- Ivanov; The Sea Gull; The Swan Song; Uncle Vanya William Congreve -- The Double-Dealer; The Judgement of Paris (a masque); Love for Love; The Old Bachelor;Semele; The Way of the World Pierre Corneille -- Polyeucte Thomas Dekker -- The Wonderfull Yeare John Dryden -- All for Love Euripides -- Iphigenia in Tauris John Gay -- The Beggar's Opera Gilbert and Sullivan -- Complete plays Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Egmont (English and German); Faust part 1 (English and German), part 2 (German); Geschwister (German); Goetz von Berlichingen (German); Hermann und Dorothea (English and German); Iphigenie in Tauris (German); Mitschuldigung (German); Reineke Fuchs (German); West-Oestlicher Divan (German) Oliver Goldsmith -- She Stoops to Conquer Wilhelm Hauff -- Othello (German) William Howells -- The Elevator; The Garotters; The Parlor-Car; The Register Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; The Lady from the Sea; The Master Builder; Pillars of Society; Rosmersholm; When We Dead Awaken Ben Jonson -- The Alchemist; Cynthia's Revels; Discoveries Made Upon Man and Matter; Epicoene; Every Man in His Humor; Every Man out of His Humor; Masque of Beauty; Masque of Blacknesse; Poetaster; Sejanus; Volpone Heinrich von Kleist -- Kaethchin von Heilbronn; Pen