Read New Historical Fiction Scripts

April 04, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: romance, drama, screen-play

Summary

The journey to sustain peace...

The Peach Magnolia Tree

by nika2020

The Glass Sandcastle House

March 15, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: slavery, new-orleans, free-creoles

Summary

Alternative choices of African American females in pre-Civil War New Orleans.

Following Orders

by Ben Ramsey

January 02, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: following-orders

A Pointed Argument

by Joshua Kepfer

The House of Ghosts House

May 16, 2016

Shelves: 2

Tags: murder, drama, funny, assassin, 1700s

Summary

7 men are in a room. All of them are lords, nobles, generals, and their king. A problem arises when one man accuses the other of treason, and the argument escalates into murder.

Sons of Rome

by Kerfinoctulus

November 23, 2014

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

Tags: war, fight, forgotten, alexandria, epic, ancient, speech, general, battle, rome, roman, sons, kerfinoctulus

Summary

A short speech that a Roman general gave before a forgotten attack on the city of Alexandria in Egypt.

PINOY ASSASSIN

by aichisendou17

June 16, 2014

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

Summary

Set during the Philippine-Spanish Revolutionary War

REFLECTION ON SCIENTIFIC RACISM

by carlsveillard

January 22, 2014

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

Summary

This is a reflection that I wrote after I watched the video of scientific racism. I hope that you will enjoy yourself while you are reading it.

The Fallen Lady

by rcruickshank278

January 21, 2014

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

Tags: romance, drama, irish_history

Summary

A short, one act play, set in Dublin, Ireland about a young man who falls in love with a young woman who has been institutionalised into one of Ireland's Magdalene Asylums.

The foolish girl. A satyr play

by Soul sharer

September 04, 2013

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

Tags: lust, play, classical, based, script, satyr, womanising

Summary

An attempt to womanise a young girl using her life as a bargain. Which turn a little pear shaped

The Bells of Perpignian (Yiddish Holocaust Lit.) - Scene 5: At Mr. Lermann's Saturday Night, Autumn 1942

August 11, 2013

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

Summary

The prey and the temporarily secure ones: Mrs. Kessel, a hunted Jewish woman forces her way into the Mr. Lermann's apartment, a local Jewish community leader, begging him to help her rescue her husband.

The Bells of Perpignian (Yiddish Holocaust Lit.) - Scene 4: In The Prison of Perpignian

August 11, 2013

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Summary

Inside the huge Medieval Perpignian prison a bunch of hunted Jews recount their litanies of persecution in France during the 2nd World War.

The Bells of Perpignian (Yiddish Holocaust Lit.) - Scene 3: At Madame Charpantier's Hotel

August 11, 2013

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Summary

Somewhere in Vichy come together Mrs. and Mr. Krause, illegal, persecuted Jewish refugees, ordinary honest French citizens, a collaborating secret agent who looks like a Hassidic rebbi and a French half-paralyzed collaborting gendarme.

The Bells of Perpignian (Yiddish Holocaust Lit.) - Scene 2:The Border

August 11, 2013

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Summary

Across the South-Eastern French Pyrenees, 2 groups of Jewish illegal refugees attempt and fail to smuggle the border into Spain. Dispute bewteen Nazi sympathizer and French patriotic guides, intertwined with desperate interchange between Reb Dov Berish and his wife Malke.

The Bells of Perpignian (Yiddish Holocaust Lit.) - Scene 1:Drancy

August 11, 2013

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Summary

Surprise encounter between 2 Jewish hostages taken in revenge for Resistance sabotage act and their Nazi captor, World War 1 veteran who owes his life to their father, a Jewish baker from Galicia, then Poland, now Ukrainian provice. Drancy,France, concentration camp. From Wikipedia: "The Drancy internment camp was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German military administration of Occupied France during World War II. It was located in Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, France. Between June 22, 1942, and July 31, 1944, during its use as an internment camp, 67,400 French, Polish, and German Jews were deported from the camp in 64 rail transports, which included 6,000 children. Only 1,542 remained alive at the camp when Allied forces liberated it on 17 August 1944."

The Bells of Perpignian (Holoacaust Lit.) - When The Bells Begin to Ring

August 11, 2013

Shelves: 1

Summary

Opening poem

The Bells of Perpignian (Holocaust Lit.)

August 11, 2013

Shelves: 1

Summary

A suite of scenes, loosely connected, set in Vichy France and Stalag 325, World War 2. Protagonists: illegal Jewish refugees, members of the Resistance Movement, French collaborators, officers of Stalag 325, situated near Rawa Ruska, Galicia, Poland (now in Ukraine) where Russian, Belgian,French and other POW's were kept and exterminated. 1st Post: Title page, Copyright and Contact Editor info., playwright's short biographical outline, Editor's linguistical comments, Script Outline

Lady Macbeth Monologue

by Rachy reg

June 22, 2013

Shelves: 1

Tags: shakespeare, drama, rage, monologue, macbeth, lady

Summary

I wrote this monologue as part of my English coursework and honestly I love it...partly because it got me an A* but then again I love the work of Shakespeare. :) BTW I'm quite proud of the last two paragraphs because they are in iambic pentameter.

Mad as a Hatter

by BestLaidPlanner

May 29, 2013

Shelves: 1

Tags: parody, historical_fiction, industrial_revolution

Summary

An insane reporter interviews a young factory worker. I had to write this for school. It's god-awful, but I'll share it anyway. Supposed to be somewhat funny and stupid.

The Circle of Orpheus

by LexyMaree

May 09, 2013

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