French adaptations of William Shakespeare by classic French authors, translated back into English and introduced by Frank Morlock: Hamlet by Alexander Dumas, pre; Ophelia by Arthur Rimbaud; and As You…

This dramatization of the classic novel is the first of four parts. In 1815 Napoleon has fled to Elba, and the Bourbons have been restored to the French throne. Young…

Written in 1837, Caligula is one of the best nineteenth-century plays set in ancient Rome. The story of the mad, tyrannical Emperor Caligula, who reigned four years before being assassinated…

Twenty years after the events of The Three Musketeers, the intrepid quartet–Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan–return in an attempt to save King Charles I from the axe of General Oliver…

Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from a script by Auguste Maquet, BATHILDA tells the story of a woman who’s raped by Marcel, and becomes his lover for a time. After she…

This dramatization of Sir Walter Scott’s The Surgeon’s Daughter tells how an ambitious politician, Richard Darlington, murders his wife to further his political career, becoming the epitome of the saying…

George Sand, the nineteenth-century French feminist and writer (1804-1876), wrote many well-known novels, but her dramatic work, although equally compelling, is much less known to modern audiences. Moliere is one…