Stage plays from the classics
Subtitle: one-act adaptations from famous short stories, novels, and plays
By: by Joellen Bland.
Publisher: Plays, Inc.
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Children's plays, American.; Stage adaptations.; Plays.; Stage adaptations.
Description: One-act stage adaptations of famous short stories, novels, and plays. Includes "The Prince and the Pauper," "Nicholas Nickleby," and "Frankenstein."
Table of contents: title: The prince and the pauper / Mark Twain -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- Dracula / Bram Stoker -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- The miraculous eclipse (from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court) / Mark Twain -- The sacrifice (from Les misérables) / Victor Hugo -- Nicholas Nickleby / Charles Dickens -- The imaginary invalid / Molière -- The one million pound bank note / Mark Twain -- The fall of Uriah Heep (from David Copperfield) / Charles Dickens.  Round-the-table reading plays:  The hound of the Baskervilles / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand -- 20,000 leagues under the sea / Jules Verne -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley.