Drama | Database of Canadian Early Women Writers

Label	Drama
Description	This category includes all titles prepared for presentation in a dramatic forum (such as plays, dialogues, and spoken monologues).
Created	2017-09-29 2:56:43 PM
Updated	2017-10-25 12:42:47 PM

Alvina Faris, An Adoption of Tobie Tracy
Sister Maura, Angelus, And the Apostles' Creed: Plays
Sister Mary Agnes, The Bandit’s Son: A One-Act Play for Boys
Alvina Faris, The Beemers of Layton Village
Jessie Louise Beattie, The Call of the Caravan
Sister Mary Agnes, The Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne: Victims of the French Revolution
Alvina Faris, Choosing a Wife
Sister Mary Agnes, A Day in June
Sister Mary Agnes, A Day with Peggy
Alvina Faris, Getting by the Sign
Lereine Ballantyne, Heroes of History
Clara Rothwell Anderson, The Joggsville Convention
The Kaiser's Last Hope
Clara Rothwell Anderson, Let Mary Lou Do It
Sister Mary Agnes, Mabel’s Christmas Party
Alvina Faris, The Making Over of Dad Dennis
Sister Mary Agnes, Making Santa Claus a Missionary
Clara Rothwell Anderson, Marrying Anne?
Florence Bertha Steiner, Mining with Flossie
Sister Mary Agnes, Miracle of Saint Bride
Alvina Faris, Mrs. O'Leary Goes Into Business
Alvina Faris, Oh Me! Oh My!
Sister Mary Agnes, Our Japanese Cousin
Sister Mary Agnes, The Paschal Fire at Tara
Elsa Gidlow, Payatamu and the Corn Maiden
Lily Adams Beck, The Perfume of the Rainbow
Alvina Faris, Reception Day at the Parsonag
Sister Mary Agnes, A Rose from the Little Queen
Sister Mary Agnes, Rose of Canada
Sister Mary Agnes, Saint Teresa’s Roses
Sister Mary Agnes, A Shower of Roses
Sister Mary Agnes, St. Patrick Speaks
Sister Mary Agnes, Sweetness Came to Earth
Sister Mary Agnes, Their Class Motto: Duty First
Sister Mary Agnes, Three Gifts for the Divine Child
Clara Rothwell Anderson, Wanted: A Wife
Frances Brooke, The Siege of Sinope: A Tragedy as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, by Mrs. Brooke, 1781
Frances Brooke, Rosina: A Comic Opera in Two Acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Convent Garden, 1783
Frances Brooke, Marian: A Comic Opera in Two Acts, 1800
Eliza Foster Cushing, Esther, A Sacred Drama, With Judith, A Poem, 1840
Annie Louisa Walker, Plays for Children, 1876
Hariot Georgina Blackwood, Souvenir of Plays at Government House, 1872-1878, 1878
Sarah Anne Curzon, The Sweet Girl Graduate: A Drama in Three Acts, 1882
Elizabeth Jane Thompson, A Double Life, 1884
Sarah Anne Curzon, Laura Secord, The Heroine of 1812: A Drama, And Other Poems, 1887
Annie E. Robinson, Pocahontas: A Libretto of Opera in Five Acts, 1891
Elizabeth S. Tucker, Little Ways and Great Plays, 1892
Clara Louise Burnham, Phyllis, The Farmer's Daughter: An Operatic Cantata, 1892
Peggy Webling, An April Jest, c1895
Peggy Webling, Britannia, c1895
Jean Newton McIlwraith, Ptarmigan: Or, A Canadian Carnival, 1895
Julia Colliton Flewellyn, It Is the Law: A Drama in Five Acts, 1896
Louisa Schubart, Ludwig, The Emigrant: A Comedy in Three Acts, 1896
Eve Brodlique, A Training School for Lovers, 1896
Catharine Nina Merritt, When George III was King: A Drama in Three Acts, 1897
Edith Lelean Groves, Canada: Our Homeland, 1900
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Cousin Charlotte's Visit: A Play in Three Acts for Girls' Schools, 1900
Edith Lelean Groves, Fancy Flag Drill, 1900
Sophie Margaretta Almon Hensley, Princess Mignon: A Musical Play in Three Acts, 1900
Edith Lelean Groves, Grand March with Flags, 1901
Edith Lelean Groves, Patriotic Scarf Drill, 1901
Edith Lelean Groves, Canada: A Patriotic Exercise, 1905
Marie Warman, Kingdom of Kinkapoo: A Play, 1906
Virginia Woodson Frame Church, Commencement Days: A Play in Three Acts of College Girl Life, 1908
Elizabeth Gagnieur, Conflict and Triumph, 1908
Dorothy E. McMurry, Jessie, The Nymph of the Foot-Hills: A Twenty Five Minute Play, 1908
Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night’S Dream, 1909
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, 1909
Emma Carter Seymour, Final Rehearsal: A One Act Musical Sketch, 1910
Josephine Hammond, Everywoman's Road, 1911
Clara Rothwell Anderson, An Old Time Ladies’ Aid Business Meeting at Mohawk Crossroads, 1911
Clara Rothwell Anderson, Afternoon Tea in a Friendly Village, 1862, 1912
Clara Rothwell Anderson, Aunt Mary's Family Album, 1912
Clara Rothwell Anderson, The Minister's Bride, 1913
Sister Mary Agnes, Choosing a Model: A Dialogue for Commencement Day, 1914
Sister Mary Agnes, How St. Nicholas Came to the Academy a Christmas Play for Little Girls, 1914
Sister Mary Agnes, The Last of the Vestals and Other Dramas, 1914
Sister Mary Agnes, The Last of the Vestals: A Historical Drama for Girls, 1914
Sister Mary Agnes, The Queen of Sheba and Other Dramas, 1914
Sister Mary Agnes, Christmas Guests: A Christmas Play for Girls, 1915
Sister Mary Agnes, The Empress Helena: Or, The Victory of the Cross, 1915
Sister Mary Agnes, The Millionaire’s Daughter, 1915
Sister Mary Agnes, Plans for the Holidays: A School Play for Closing Exercises in the Grammar Grades, 1915
Sister Mary Agnes, The Queen of Sheba. A Biblical Drama, 1915
Sister Mary Agnes, A Shakespeare Pageant: Dialogue for Commencement Day, 1915
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act, 1915
Clara Rothwell Anderson, The Young Village Doctor, 1915
Edith Lelean Groves, A Canadian Fairy Tale: A Patriotic Play, 1916
Lucie Vessot Galley, Famous Women Character Representation: An Historic Entertainment, 1916
Edith Lelean Groves, The Key of Jack Canuck's Treasure House, 1916
Edith Lelean Groves, The Making of Canada's Flag: A Patriotic Play, 1916
Clara May Bell, Psyche, 1916
Edith Lelean Groves, The War on the Western Front: A Patriotic Play, 1916
Clara Rothwell Anderson, Aunt Susan's Visit, 1917
Edith Lelean Groves, Britannia: A Play, 1917
Edith Lelean Groves, Fancy Flag Drill:"Rule Britannia", 1917
Edith Lelean Groves, Fancy Flag Drill: "We'll Fight for the Grand Old Flag", 1917
Edith Lelean Groves, Holly Drill, 1917
Blanche Irbé Bremner, The Hut in the Forest: A Dramatic Poem in Three Episodes, 1917
Sister Mary Agnes, An Irish Princess, 1917
Sister Mary Agnes, Old Friends and New, 1917
Edith Lelean Groves, Santa Claus and the Magic Carpet: Or, A Conspiracy Against Santa Claus, A Christmas Comedy, 1917
Sister Mary Agnes, The Step-Sisters, 1917
Edith Lelean Groves, The Wooing of Miss Canada, 1917
Edith Lelean Groves, Canada Calls: A Timely Patriotic Play Dedicated to the Children of Canada, 1918
Elspeth Moray, The Dream of the Months, 1918
Elspeth Moray, The Festival of the Wheat: A Play for the Little Folk, 1918
Agnes Louise Crimmins, The Man Without a Country: A Play in a Prologue, Three Acts and an Epilogue, 1918
Sister Mary Agnes, Mary Magdalen, 1918
Sister Mary Agnes, Mary Stuart and Her Friends, 1918
Edith Lelean Groves, A Patriotic Auction, 1918
Edith Lelean Groves, Primary Pieces, 1918
Sister Mary Agnes, The Red Cross Helpers, 1918
Edith Lelean Groves, The Soldiers of the Soil and the Farmerettes: A Dramatic Drill, 1918
Edith Lelean Groves, A Spring Fantasy, 1918
Sister Mary Agnes, The Taking of the Holy City, 1918
Sister Mary Agnes, The Arch of Success: A Dialogue for Commencement Day, 1919
Edna MacKenzie, That Awful Letter: A Comedy for Girls, 1919
Mary Kinley Ingraham, Acadia: A Play in Five Acts, 1920
Stella M. Bainbridge, Bethlehem, The House of Bread, c1920
Mary Susanne Edgar, The Christmas Tree Bluebird, 1920
Mary Susanne Edgar, The Conspiracy of Spring and the Scarlet Knight, c1920
Clara Rothwell Anderson, Martha Made Over, c1920
Mary Susanne Edgar, The Scarlet Knight: An Autumn Play for Children, c1920
Sister Mary Agnes, Sense and Sentiment, 1920
Clara Rothwell Anderson, The Young Country Schoolma'am, 1920
Amy Redpath Roddick, The Birth of Montreal (A Chronicle Play) And Other Poems, 1921
Mabel B. Stevenson, The Brown Mouse: A Rural Play in Four Acts, Based on the Novel of the Same Name by Herbert Quick, 1921
Sister Maura, Christus Vincit, 1921
Sister Mary Agnes, Mother’s Birthday, 1921
Edna MacKenzie, Snowbound for Christmas, 1921
Sister Mary Agnes, Better Than Gold, 1922
Stella Tiletson Payson, The Christmas Spirit, 1922
Sister Mary Agnes, Cross and Chrysanthemum, 1922
Edna MacKenzie, The Dearest Thing in Boots, 1922
Annie Margaret Angus, The High Priest, A Play in One Scene and One Set, 1922
Mabel Grace Burkholder, A Prince in Egypt, 1922
Amy Redpath Roddick, The Romance of a Princess: A Comedy, And Other Poems, 1922
Sister Mary Agnes, Short Plays and Recitations, 1922
Mabel Grace Burkholder, The Ten Virgins, 1922
Anne Elizabeth Wilson, Young Folks' Dialogues, 1922
Sister Mary Agnes, Zuma, The Peruvian Maid, 1922
V. Fetherstonhaugh, Aunt Anna's Foot: Comedy in Three Acts, 1923
Sister Mary Agnes, The Best Gift and Other Short Plays, 1923
Sister Mary Agnes, Little Saint Teresa, 1923
Sister Mary Agnes, Pearls for the Missions, 1923
Minne Harvey Williams, The Romance of Canada: An Historical Pageant, 1923
Sister Mary Agnes, Schoolgirl Visions, 1923
Sister Maura, Via Vitae: A Morality Play, 1923
Ida Elizabeth Potter, We are Coming: A Five-Act Modern Drama, 1923
Sister Mary Agnes, The Eve of St. Patrick’s, 1924
Sister Mary Agnes, A Happy Mistake, 1924
Sister Mary Agnes, Queen Esther, 1924
Stella Tiletson Payson, Burglar-Proof, 1925
Margaret Beatrice Cropper, The Caravan: A Play About Sunday School Work on the Prairies, 1925
Eva Haswell, The Caravan: A Play About Sunday School Work on the Prairies, 1925
Mazo de la Roche, Low Life: A Comedy in One Act, 1925
Era Betzner, Marenka, 1925
Stella Tiletson Payson, Mechanical Dolls: One-Act Christmas Play for Small Children, 1925
Barna Bidwell, The Mercenary Match, c1925
Mabel Grace Burkholder, A Pageant of Bethlehem in Four Scenes, 1925
Edna MacKenzie, Waking the Christmas Spirit, 1925
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, The Boy who Discovered Easter: A Play in Three Scenes, 1926
Madge Macbeth, Curiosity Rewarded: A Dialogue Between Gilbert Knox and the Curious Public, 1926
Ida Elizabeth Potter, Farmer Maxwell's City Niece: A Three-Act Drama, 1926
Edna MacKenzie, How Bobby Put It Over, 1926
Amy Redpath Roddick, In a Venetian Garden, St. Ursula: Two Plays, 1926
Sister Mary Agnes, Katy Did, 1926
Harriet Ford, Mr. Lazarus, 1926
Abbie Lyon Sharman, A Somersault to Love: A Comedy of Changing Manners in China, 1926
Edna MacKenzie, The Strike of the Ladies' Aid, 1926
Ida Elizabeth Potter, At Hopper's Corner: A Two-Act Drama, 1927
Alice Maud Winlow, The Broken Flower, 1927
Isabel Ecclestone MacKay, The Last Cache, 1927
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, The Product of the Mill, 1927
Ida Emma Fitch Baker, The Story of Canada, 1927
Edith Jessie Archibald, The Token: A Play in Three Acts of the Old Days in Cape Breton, 1927
Isabel Ecclestone MacKay, Treasure: A Play in One Act, 1927
Isabel Ecclestone MacKay, Two Too Many: A Comedy in Three Acts, 1927
Sister Mary Agnes, The Young Professor, 1927
Ida Emma Fitch Baker, Dialogues and Dramas for School and Home, 1928
Lizzie Allen Harker, Marigold, 1928
Mabel Grace Burkholder, Mr. Scrooge on Main Street, 1928
Era Betzner, The Mystic Flower: An Operetta in Three Acts, c1928
Ida Elizabeth Potter, Wanted-A Chauffeur: A One-Act Play, 1928
Edith Lelean Groves, We are Seven: Little Songs for Children and Grown-Ups, 1928
Olive Evitt Muir, Women and War, 1928
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, Knights of the Silver Shield, 1929
Mazo de la Roche, Low Life and Other Plays, 1929
Mabel Grace Burkholder, The Prodigal Son, c1930
Mary Cramp, The Radiant Life: A Memoir of Ruth Marion Shatford-Holmes, c1930
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, The Palace of Knossos: A Play of Theseus and the Minotaur, 1931
Ida Marion Davidson, Alexander MacKenzie, 1932
Lillian Beynon Thomas, Among the Maples, 1932
Ida Marion Davidson, The Capture of Quebec and Madeline De Vercheres, c1932
Ida Marion Davidson, Gentlemen Adventurers, 1932
Ida Marion Davidson, Lord Selkirk, 1932
Jane Van Every, Mary, 1932
Doris Chapman, Midnight and Christmas Eve, c1932
Susan Frances Harrison, Four Ballads and a Play, 1933
Lily Adams Beck, The Ghost Plays of Japan, 1933
Isabel Ecclestone MacKay, Goblin Gold: A Comedy Drama in Three Acts, 1933
Beatrice Shand, Mother's Holiday: A Fairy Fantasy of Mother Love, 1933
Nelda MacKinnon Sage, Souls: A Play in Four Acts, c1933
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, Tidings of Joy, 1933
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, Double Door, 1934
Mildred Goldberg, Eight Men Speak: A Political Play in Six Acts, 1934
Jessie Louise Beattie, The Four Leaf Clover, 1934
Reby Edmond, The Spirit of the Thing, 1934
Claire Harris MacIntosh, Two Plays for Child Actors, 1934
Nellie Medd, The Crowning of Canada, c1935
Lesley Drummond Ross, Don Andondo and the Poppydophilus, 1935
Marjorie Price, Good Caesar: A Comedy in One Act, 1935
Madge Macbeth, The Goose's Sauce: A Comedy in One Act, 1935
Lillian Beynon Thomas, Jim Barber's Spite Fence: A Comedy in One Act, 1935
Mary A. Knight, Plays and Pageants, 1935
Alice Amelia Chown, Poor Penguins: A Satire in One Act on the Stupidity of War, 1935
Martha Allan, Summer Solstice: A Drama in One Act, 1935
Susan Charlotte Grosvenor Buchan, The Wife of Flanders, 1935
Susan Charlotte Grosvenor Buchan, Christmas Time: A One-Act Play for Children, 1936
Susan Charlotte Grosvenor Buchan, Fortune, a play in one act, 1936
Lois Reynolds Kerr, Summer Hotel, 1936
Mazo de la Roche, Whiteoaks: A Play, 1936
Ruth C. Thompson, Beyond the Skyline, 1937
Dora Smith Conover, The Cat and the Mushroom, 1937
Reby Edmond, Guest House: Very Exclusive, 1937
Hermia Harris Fraser, Hob's Heaven, 1937
Lois Reynolds Kerr, Nellie McNab, 1937
Susan Charlotte Grosvenor Buchan, Reindeer at Christmas, 1937
E. Maud Edgarton, Ruby of Melchior, 1937
Kathryn E. Colquhoun, A Run for His Money: A Comedy in One Act for Three Men and Three Women, 1937
Marjorie Price, The Six Queens of Henry, 1937
Amy Redpath Roddick, Tharbis: A Poetic Drama, 1937
Phyllis Coate Stratford, Bright and Glorious, 1938
Minnie Evans Bicknell, Relief, 1938
Amy Redpath Roddick, The Tomahawk: A Playlet, And Other Poems, 1938
Marjory Mary Reynolds, The Bequest, 1939
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, A Salute of the Fourth, 1939
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Still Stands the House, 1939
Gwen Cash, Turkeys Have Charming Faces, c1939
Patricia Card, Life of a Toy, 1940
Elsie Park Gowan, The Shop in Toad Lane, or a Password to Liberty: A Play in Four Scenes, 1940
Mabel Grace Burkholder, Three Comic Sketches, c1940
Ruth Parsons, Sixty Dollars a Month, 1941
Hilda Mary Hooke, A Time of Grace: A Play in Three Acts, 1941
Rachel Reynolds, Until Charlotte Comes Home, 1941
Ella Monckton, The Angry Men, 1942
Frances Wren, Consquamcook to the Micmacs, Saint Andrews to You, 1942
Hilda Mary Hooke, One-Act Plays from Canadian History, 1942
Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, If Liberty Dies Here: A Play in One Act, 1944
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Jack and the Joker, 1944
Elsie Park Gowan, Airman's Forty-Eight, c1945
Elsie Park Gowan, Back to the Kitchen, Woman! A Comedy, c1945
Olive Elsie Knox, How We Hear and Sewing Seams with Steel, 1945
Doris Clute, Life Burns on, 1945
Norma McGougan, Marjorie's Wedding Dress, c1945
Olive Elsie Knox, Penicillin and Fresh Water from the Sea, 1945
Elsie Park Gowan, The Princess Who Dreamed Too Much, c1945
Sara Elizabeth Carsley, Say What You Will, 1945
Olive Elsie Knox, Wheels and Friction and Sulfa Drugs, 1945
Winnifred McLennan, Yea, Though I Walk, 1945
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, The Drowning at Wasyl Nemitchuck (A Fine Coloured Easter Egg), 1946
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Hatfield, the Rainmaker, 1946
Carol Coates, The Jade Heart: A Fantasy in One Act in the Chinese Manner, 1946
Freda Graham Bundy, Kaleidoscope, 1946
Hilda Mary Hooke, The Streamlined Madonna, 1946
Beverley Rowan, Floating Homeland, 1947
Catherine Brickenden, A Pig in a Poke: A Farce-Comedy in Three Acts, 1948
Marguerite Roberts, Tess in the Theatre, 1948
Lynn Grant, Growth, 1949
Ina Williamson, A Christmas Dream, 1950
Rosamund Archibald, During the Tea Hour, c1950
Elsie Park Gowan, Breeches from Bond Street: A Play in One Act, 1952
Valance St. Just Patriarche, Life's a Bubble: The Life of Francis Bacon in Dramatic Form, 1954
Patricia Joudry, Teach Me How to Cry, 1955
Catherine Brickenden, From Wilderness to Wonderland, 1957
Elsie Park Gowan, Maestro, 1958
Catherine Brickenden, Zanorin: A Comedy in One Act, 1958
Audrey McKim, Embark for Tomorrow: A One-Act Play, 1960
Helen Shirley Fowke, A Gift for Benjamin, 1960
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Lament for Harmonica, 1960
Catherine Brickenden, No Red Carpet: A Contemporary Play in Three Acts, 1960
Patricia Joudry, The Song of Louise in the Morning, 1960
Patricia Joudry, Three Rings for Michell, 1960
Clara Bernhardt, Constant Flame, 1961
Ann Henry, Lulu Street: A Play, 1972
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, The Lodge: A Comedy in Four Scenes, 1976
Margerie Bonner, Notes on a Screenplay for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender is the Night”, 1976
Maara Haas, Other Worlds/other Faces, 1976
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Widger’s Way, 1976
Lois Reynolds Kerr, No Reporters Please, 1977
Lois Reynolds Kerr, O Woman!, 1977
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, The Sleeping Beauty: A New Version of the Old Story, and the Golden Goose: Two Plays for Young People, 1979
Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Kid’s Plays: Six Canadian Plays for Children, 1980
Margot Osborn, The Man Who Might Have Been King: A Play on the Life of Moses, 1983
Mavis Gallant, What Is to Be Done?, 1983

Christmas Plays for Children, 1916
Zillah Katherine MacDonald, Morningside Plays, 1917
Mazo de la Roche, Plays for School and Camp, 1922
Sketches and Plays, c1925
Ava Beatrice Knowles, Two One-Act Plays, 1925
One-Act Plays by Canadian Authors, 1926
Isabel Ecclestone MacKay, One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, Series 3, 1927
Mary Susanne Edgar, Plays for Our American Holidays, 1929
Six Canadian Plays, 1930
Reby Edmond, Two by Two: A Collection of Plays and Sketches, 1934
A Book of Plays for Schools and Community Drama Groups in Canada, 1935
Three Prize One Act Plays and Two Others, 1937
Best One-Act Plays of 1942, 1943
International Folk Plays, 1949