Five O’Clock Tea: Farce by William Dean Howells
Story type: Theater I[MRS. SOMERS; MR. WILLIS CAMPBELL][Mrs. Amy Somers, in a lightly floating tea-gown of singularly becoming texture and color, employs the last moments ...
Play
A play is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between characters and intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. The writer of a play is a playwright.
A Likely Story – Farce by William Dean Howells
Story type: TheaterI[MR. AND MRS. WILLIS CAMPBELL] MRS. CAMPBELL:“Now this, I think, is the most exciting part of the whole affair, and the pleasantest.” She is seated at ...
The Sleeping Car: A Farce by William Dean Howells
Story type: TheaterI. SCENE: One side of a sleeping-car on the Boston and Albany Road. The curtains are drawn before most of the berths; from the hooks and rods hang hats ...
The Parlor-Car by William Dean Howells
Story type: Theater[SCENE: A Parlor-Car on the New York Central Railroad. It is late afternoon in the early autumn, with a cloudy sunset threatening rain. The car is unoc ...
The Register by William Dean Howells
Story type: TheaterI.[SCENE: In an upper chamber of a boarding-house in Melanchthon Place, Boston, a mature, plain young lady, with every appearance of establishing herse ...
Evening Dress: Farce by William Dean Howells
Story type: TheaterIMRS. EDWARD ROBERTS. : “Now, my dear, Amy and I will get there early, so as to make up for your coming a little late, but you must be there for the la ...
The Elevator by William Dean Howells
Story type: TheaterI.[SCENE: Through the curtained doorway of MRS. EDWARD ROBERTS’S pretty drawing-room, in Hotel Bellingham, shows the snowy and gleaming array of a tabl ...