The Stacks

William Shakespeare, 1600

The Prince of Denmark is visited by his father's ghost and charged with avenging a terrible crime, setting him on a path of feigned madness, moral anguish, and fatal reckoning within a court riddled with treachery.

36 characters · 20 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1597

Two young lovers from warring families in Verona defy an ancient feud to be together, igniting a chain of passion, secrecy, and devastating consequence that will forever alter both houses.

31 characters · 25 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1596

On a moonlit night near Athens, eloping lovers, quarreling fairy monarchs, and a troupe of bumbling tradesmen collide in an enchanted forest where nothing — and no one — is quite what they seem.

21 characters · 8 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1606

A Scottish general, spurred by prophecy and his wife's ruthless ambition, murders his way to the throne — only to discover that the crown brings nothing but paranoia, bloodshed, and ruin.

25 characters · 28 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1604

A Moorish general in the Venetian army is destroyed from within by his ensign's poisonous manipulations, turning love into jealousy and trust into murder.

15 characters · 15 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1611

A sorcerer-duke stranded on a remote island conjures a storm to shipwreck his enemies, orchestrating justice, reconciliation, and one last act of magic before surrendering his power.

15 characters · 10 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1602

A shipwrecked woman disguises herself as a man and enters the service of a lovesick duke, setting off a tangle of mistaken identity, unrequited longing, and comic mayhem.

15 characters · 19 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1599

Two sharp-tongued adversaries are tricked into falling in love, while a darker plot of slander threatens to destroy another couple's wedding — all in a Sicilian household buzzing with wit and intrigue.

18 characters · 17 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1606

An aging king divides his realm among his daughters based on flattery, banishing the one who truly loves him, and descends into madness as betrayal strips away everything he once held.

20 characters · 26 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1593

A brash gentleman wagers he can woo and tame the fiery Katherina, sparking a battle of wills that raises questions about love, power, and who is really outmaneuvering whom.

18 characters · 16 scenes

William Shakespeare, 1599

A banished duke's daughter flees to the Forest of Arden disguised as a young man, where she finds love, loyalty, and a world turned upside down by wit and woodland freedom.

20 characters · 23 scenes

Oscar Wilde, 1895

Two gentlemen of leisure maintain fictitious alter egos to escape social obligation, only to find their elaborate deceptions entangled with courtship, handbags, and the formidable Lady Bracknell.

9 characters · 8 scenes

Oscar Wilde, 1892

A young wife suspects her husband of an affair and is tempted to flee with another man, unaware that the woman she despises holds a secret that could change everything.

12 characters · 8 scenes

Anton Chekhov, 1904

A fading aristocratic family returns to their country estate facing auction, unable to part with the beloved cherry orchard even as the world they knew quietly vanishes around them.

15 characters · 6 scenes

Anton Chekhov, 1896

On a country estate by a lake, a young writer desperate to create new forms of art collides with his mother's famous lover, an established novelist, while unrequited love circles everyone like a wounded bird.

10 characters · 6 scenes

Anton Chekhov, 1899

A man who has spent his life managing a rural estate for his brother-in-law realizes the sacrifice was for nothing, and the bitter revelation threatens to consume everyone around him.

9 characters · 6 scenes

Henrik Ibsen, 1879

Behind the cheerful facade of a respectable home, a wife harbors a desperate secret — and when it surfaces, she is forced to confront what her marriage, her identity, and her freedom truly mean.

6 characters · 11 scenes

Henrik Ibsen, 1882

A small-town doctor discovers the public baths are contaminated and expects gratitude for the warning — instead, the entire town turns against him to protect its livelihood.

12 characters · 14 scenes

Henrik Ibsen, 1881

A widow prepares to dedicate an orphanage in her late husband's memory, but the past refuses to stay buried — the sins she spent a lifetime concealing are already living in her son.

5 characters · 11 scenes

Molière, 1664

A pious fraud insinuates himself into a wealthy household, beguiling the master of the house so completely that family, fortune, and reason itself hang in the balance.

12 characters · 33 scenes

Molière, 1668

A wealthy old man's obsessive grip on his money poisons every relationship in his household, driving his children to schemes and deceptions just to live and love on their own terms.

12 characters · 44 scenes

George Bernard Shaw, 1913

A phonetics professor wagers he can pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess simply by teaching her to speak properly — but the experiment transforms them both in ways neither anticipated.

12 characters · 10 scenes

George Bernard Shaw, 1905

A Salvation Army officer discovers that her millionaire father's arms fortune is funding the very charity she serves, forcing a reckoning between idealism and the machinery of the world.

14 characters · 11 scenes

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1775

A wealthy young captain courts a romantic heiress under a false identity, while a cast of jealous suitors, scheming servants, and the magnificently wrong Mrs. Malaprop spiral toward duels and disaster.

12 characters · 16 scenes

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1777

In a London drawing room thick with gossip, two brothers compete for an heiress and a fortune — one all charm and no substance, the other rough-edged but honest — while a famous screen conceals the truth.

16 characters · 14 scenes

Edmond Rostand, 1897

A brilliant swordsman and poet with an enormous nose secretly writes the love letters that win a beautiful woman's heart — for another man — in a story of wit, sacrifice, and devotion that endures beyond death.

25 characters · 46 scenes

William Congreve, 1700

A clever young couple must navigate a maze of former lovers, scheming relatives, and a formidable aunt's conditions to secure both a fortune and each other.

14 characters · 67 scenes

Maxim Gorky, 1902

In a squalid basement flophouse, a group of destitute outcasts cling to illusions and argue over whether a comforting lie is kinder than the truth — until a stranger arrives offering hope that may be the cruelest lie of all.

16 characters · 12 scenes

J.M. Synge, 1907

A timid young man stumbles into a remote village claiming he killed his father, and the locals are so charmed by the story that they make him a hero — until the truth walks through the door.

12 characters · 6 scenes

J.M. Synge, 1904

On a storm-battered island off the west coast of Ireland, an old woman who has lost five sons to the sea waits for news of the sixth — and the last.

6 characters · 1 scenes

Arthur Wing Pinero, 1893

A gentleman marries a woman with a scandalous past, believing love can overcome society's judgment — but the past arrives in person and proves impossible to outrun.

10 characters · 12 scenes