One Act Plays (Bookshelf)

A One Act Play, or more commonly "one act", is a short play that takes place in one act or scene, as opposed to plays that take place over a number of scenes in one or more acts. They tend to be simpler and have fewer props, scenery and cast members (sometimes only one). Such plays are often showcased in a series. Unlike other plays which usually are published one play per book, one acts are usually published in anthologies or collections.

—Excerpted from One Act Play on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

Contents 1 Collections 2 Aristophanes 3 John Kendrick Bangs 4 J. M. Barrie 5 James Branch Cabell 6 Dion Clayton Calthrop and Harley Granville-Barker 7 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 8 Joseph Conrad 9 Olive Tilford Dargan & Frederick Peterson 10 Richard Harding Davis 11 Floyd Dell 12 Ernest Dowson 13 Lord Dunsany 14 John Galsworthy 15 Susan Glaspell 16 Lady Gregory 17 Hermann Hagedorn 18 Laurence Housman 19 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 20 Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden 21 Edna St. Vincent Millay 22 A. A. Milne 23 Molière 24 Justus Möser 25 Seumas O'Brien 26 Eugene O'Neill 27 Alfred Noyes 28 George Bernard Shaw 29 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 30 August Strindberg 31 Alfred Sutro 32 J. M. Synge 33 Rabindranath Tagore 34 Alfred Lord Tennyson 35 Marion Craig Wentworth 36 Percival Wilde

Collections

• Washington Square Plays  by Various
• The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays  by Various

Aristophanes

• The Birds 
• Peace 

John Kendrick Bangs

• The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces 

J. M. Barrie

• A Well-Remembered Voice  in Echoes of the War

James Branch Cabell

• The Jewel Merchants A Comedy in One Act 

Dion Clayton Calthrop and Harley Granville-Barker

• The Harlequinade An Excursion 

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

• Plays: Second Series 
• Swan Song 

Joseph Conrad

• One Day More: A Play In One Act 

Olive Tilford Dargan & Frederick Peterson

• The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays 

Richard Harding Davis

• Miss Civilization 

Floyd Dell

• King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays 

Ernest Dowson

• The Pierrot of the Minute  in The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

Lord Dunsany

• Plays of Gods and Men 

John Galsworthy

• The First and the Last 
• Four Short Plays 
• The Little Man 
• Six Short Plays 

Susan Glaspell

• Plays 

Lady Gregory

• New Irish Comedies 

Hermann Hagedorn

• Makers of Madness: A Play in One Act and Three Scenes 

Laurence Housman

• Angels & Ministers 

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

• Die Juden  (German)

Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

• Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act 

Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Aria da Capo 

A. A. Milne

• First Plays 
• Second Plays 

Molière

• The Countess of Escarbagnas 
• The Pretentious Young Ladies 
• Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband 

Justus Möser

• Die Tugend auf der Schaubühne  (German)

Seumas O'Brien

• Duty, and other Irish Comedies 

Eugene O'Neill

• The Hairy Ape 

Alfred Noyes

• Rada A Drama of War in One Act 

George Bernard Shaw

• Augustus Does His Bit 
• Dark Lady of the Sonnets 
• How He Lied to Her Husband 
• The Inca of Perusalem 
• Overruled 
• Press Cuttings 

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• St. Patrick's day, or, the scheming lieutenant : a farce in one act 

August Strindberg

• Plays: Creditors. Pariah 
• Plays: Second series 
• Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger 

Alfred Sutro

• Five Little Plays 

J. M. Synge

• Riders to the Sea 
• In Shadow of the Glen 

Rabindranath Tagore

• Chitra, a play in one act 
• The Post Office 

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• The Falcon  in Becket and other plays

Marion Craig Wentworth

• War Brides: A Play in One Act 

Percival Wilde

• The Noble Lord 
• The Reckononing