Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888):

  Annotated List of Plays

Year Compiled: 1997

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Also, you will notice that a few of the plays listed here are accompanied by notes with question marks. Those are unconfirmed facts which I have inferred from the sources I have so far consulted. I am conducting ongoing research to locate concrete evidence for these particular assertions. If you can confirm or refute any of the facts that I have listed with a question mark, please contact me. Thank you for your patience and your assistance with this work in progress.  --Susan L. Tolbert, M.S.L.I.S.

Louisa May Alcott's Plays

1. Bandit's Bride. (Unpublished)
   • Year(s) Written: 1848?/1850?
2. Bianca. (1893)
   • Subtitle:  An Operatic Tragedy.
   • Published posthumously
   • First Published By:  Roberts Brothers (Boston)
   • Year(s) Written: 1848-49?
   • A play containing six scenes.
   • In Comic Tragedies
3. The Captive of Castile. (1893)
   • Alternate Title:  The Moorish Maiden's Vow.
   • Published posthumously
   • First Published By:  Roberts Brothers (Boston)
   • Year(s) Written: 1847-49?
   • A play containing nine scenes.
   • In Comic Tragedies
4. The Greek Slave. (1893)
   • Published posthumously
   • First Published By:  Roberts Brothers (Boston)
   • Year(s) Written: 1848-49?
   • A play containing thirteen scenes.
   • In Comic Tragedies
5. Ion. (1893)
   • Published posthumously
   • First Published By:  Roberts Brothers (Boston)
   • Year(s) Written: 1848?
   • An unfinished play containing five scenes.
   • In Comic Tragedies
6. The Long Lost Cousin. (Unpublished)
   • Year(s) Written: 1858?
   • About Llewellyn Willis, a family friend and distant "cousin-in-law".
7. Nat Bachelor's Pleasure Trip.  (produced: 1860)
   • Alternate Title:  The Trials of a Good-natured Man.
   • Presented on May 4, 1860, at the Howard Athenaeum (Boston)
   • Year(s) Written: 1855
   • A farcical play.
8. Norna. (1893)
   • Alternate Title:  The Witch's Curse.
   • Published posthumously
   • First Published By:  Roberts Brothers (Boston)
   • Year(s) Written: 1847-49?
   • A play containing fourteen scenes.
   • In Comic Tragedies
9. The Prince and the Peasant. (Unpublished)
   • Year(s) Written: 1848-49?
10. The Rival Prima Donnas. (Unpublished?)
    • Accepted by the manager of the Boston Theatre, but never performed.
    • Rewritten from her short story by the same title, in 1855.
11. The Unloved Wife. (1893)
    • Alternate Title:  Woman's Faith.
    • Published posthumously
    • First Published By:  Roberts Brothers (Boston)
    • Year(s) Written: 1848-49?
    • A play containing ten scenes.
    • In Comic Tragedies

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