All the many lame excuses for not reading plays, from “Plays are written for the stage” to “I simply don’t have time,” “I don’t read well (I’m not an actor),” “Nobody I know does it,” “I’d rather do a thousand other things,” are posted and debunked in Category: Why Not?
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by John Millington Synge
Here’s a web site with several hundred plays in the public domain, from ancient Greeks to the Complete Works to originals by people nobody knows.
When it happens, this post will be for those who prefer traditional advertising methods.
I’ll update this post as time allows. For now, you’ll find a lot of scripts in the public domain the Gutenberg Project web site. These can be read on line or downloaded—or you can copy the text to an editable document and format it to save ink and paper.
124 random plays in PDF from Aeschylus to John Van Druten under Drama at Fadedpages.com .
Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature (poetry, prose, and drama) by 59 different authors at MIT’s Internet Classics Archives.
249 plays at Read Print (join to download).
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Soon to come. Sorry.
Unfamiliar words that are reiterated.
Unfamiliar character names.
Cold Reads/International 