Eugène Brieux was the leading French playwright of social themes at the turn of the twentieth century, and George Bernard Shaw famously called him the greatest French dramatist since Molière. This volume collects three of his plays in English translation: Woman on Her Own, a study of female economic independence; False Gods, set in ancient Egypt; and The Red Robe, an exposé of the French judicial system.
Brieux’s drama is driven by social conscience and precise observation of human weakness within institutions. Download this public-domain collection as a free EPUB.