Комическая сценка — свадебный ужин в зале кухмистера Андронова, где встречаются разные персонажи: семья Жигаловых с невестой Дашенькой, жених Апломбов, телеграфист Ять, грек-кондитер Дымба, нанятый «генерал» капитан Ревунов и прочие гости.
Беседы о приданом, залоге билетов, чинах и «электрическом освещении» перемежаются тостами, буффонными репликами и бытовыми конфликтами.
Кульминация — приход Ревунова и обвинение его в получении платы через Нюнина, что оскорбляет старого офицера и заставляет его уйти, а действие заканчивается шумом и нестройным весельем.

Вдова Елена Попова, погружённая в траур, отказывается выплатить долг покойного мужа требовательному кредитору Григорию Смирнову; их спор перерастает в оскорбления и дуэльный вызов. Конфликт внезапно сменяется взаимным влечением: Смирнов признаётся в любви и делает предложение, сцена завершается поцелуем и примирением.

A three-act drama in which Catherine Winter rebels against her husband George, a charismatic but morally corrupt financier whose private affairs and schemes entangle her family and the political establishment.
George’s fraudulent use of company bonds to buy a Central American mine triggers blackmail, financial panic and Catherine’s anguished renunciation of divorce to avert wider ruin.
Despite an election victory and a late seeming turn in the mine’s fortunes, George disappears amid the crisis and is apparently run down on the railway, leaving the household shattered.

Norah Marsh, a long-serving companion left out of her mistress’s will, emigrates to Canada and enters a tense household on her brother’s farm where class friction and domestic rivalries escalate.
Impulsively marrying farmhand Frank Taylor, she endures a violent, coercive beginning to their marriage but gradually adapts and they develop mutual understanding.
When Frank’s crop is condemned, an unexpected legacy from Miss Wickham’s family (converted to dollars) rescues the farm and cements their renewed commitment.

Major John returns from the Front engaged to Sylvia but reveals he has lost his Christian faith, distressing his devout parents and fiancée. When the dying Colonel Wharton seeks spiritual comfort, Sylvia tricks John into receiving Communion to ease the father, with unexpected moral consequences. The Colonel dies at peace after a last sacrament; John’s belief and their engagement collapse, and Sylvia renounces marriage to dedicate herself to God.

Comic three-act domestic play built on misunderstandings: Penelope summons family with mysterious telegrams, provoking rival interpretations and comic scenes.
She confronts husband Dickie’s flirtation with Ada Fergusson, follows her mathematician father’s calculated advice to feign indifference and regain his affections.
Penelope’s stratagems expose the affair, prompt Dickie’s remorse, and the couple reconcile.

A three-act comedy of manners in which impecunious Gerald Halstane unexpectedly inherits a peerage, jeopardising his secret engagement to Nellie Sellenger. Mrs. Worthley (Mrs. Dot) engineers social manoeuvres—special licences, staged flirtations and a sabotaged motor—to unsettle attachments and promote alternative matches. After misunderstandings and an elopement, Freddie and Nellie pair off and Gerald, freed from his promise, and Mrs. Worthley acknowledge mutual love.

Bertha, married to the earnest but dull Edward, becomes disillusioned, flees to Rome and London, and is swept into a brief, passionate affair with the young Gerald. She rejects him, returns to Court Leys; Edward dies in a hunting accident, and she responds with numbness, remorse, and the deliberate destruction of their relics. Gradually she grows resigned to a quieter, solitary life and decides to leave Blackstable to travel and keep her inner world to herself.

At Kenyon‑Fulton Squire Claude rigidly enforces an estate rule and orders the gamekeeper Gann’s daughter Peggy away when she is found “in trouble,” and Peggy kills herself to spare her father. Grace, Claude’s wife, tormented by a past affair with Henry Cobbett and by her failure to intervene, debates confession and repentance amid the family’s petty hypocrisies. Ultimately she suppresses disclosure, resolves to reform for Claude’s sake, and the drama exposes class prejudice, moral rigidity and the fraught possibility of forgiveness.

Lady Wanley and Ambrose Holland trick the snobbish Parker-Jenningses by presenting Jack Straw, a witty Grand Babylon waiter, as the missing Archduke Sebastian.
Jack prolongs the imposture, wins Ethel’s sympathy, baffles the hosts and is unexpectedly confirmed by Count von Bremer and the Emperor.
The household’s pretensions are exposed and Mrs Parker-Jennings is publicly humiliated while Jack secures imperial approbation and the heroine’s favor.

Set in Peking, the play charts Daisy — a Eurasian woman married to Harry Anderson — and her illicit, long‑standing passion for George Conway.
Her amah and Lee Tai clandestinely expose George's letters and abet plots that result in a street attack, George's wounding and eventual suicide, and the collapse of the couple's secrecy.
Confronted with exposure and ruin, Daisy assumes a Chinese guise as Harry returns with the incriminating correspondence, leaving moral and relational consequences unresolved.

Set in Cairo, Sir Arthur Little's marriage to the young Violet is endangered when she and his secretary Ronald Parry fall in love.
Arthur, compelled by official duty, keeps Parry in post despite personal cost; Violet renounces the affair to preserve honour and British interests.
After Parry saves Arthur from assassination the crisis ends in painful reconciliation: duty prevails, hearts remain wounded.

Two bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, maintain invented aliases (Ernest and Bunbury) to escape duties, initiating reciprocal deceptions.
Their false identities produce romantic confusions with Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew and provoke Lady Bracknell’s scrutiny of social origins.
A recovered handbag reveals Jack’s true parentage and name (Ernest), permitting the marriages and delivering Wilde’s satirical indictment of Victorian seriousness and pretension.

Lady Windermere, convinced her husband Arthur is infatuated with the disreputable Mrs Erlynne, is driven to the brink of leaving him and momentarily accepts Lord Darlington’s love.
Mrs Erlynne secretly averts a public scandal—destroying Margaret’s letter and taking the blame—then demands the affair be kept secret.
The play ends with the Windermeres reconciled, Mrs Erlynne withdrawing (soon to marry Lord Augustus), and Wilde exposing society’s hypocrisy, reputation and sacrifice.

Николай Гоголь — «Ревизор» — сатирическая комедия о пороках провинциальной администрации.
По слуху о тайном ревизоре чиновники принимают за него пустого столичного прохожего Хлестакова, осыпают его почестями и взятками, а тот пользуется их доверием.
Разоблачение ложного ревизора и весть о приезде подлинного чиновника оборачивают всю компанию в немую конфузию.

Пьеса Н. В. Гоголя «Женитьба» сатирически изображает брачные торги: сваха Фекла и родственники приводят к Агафье Тихоновне череду комических женихов (Яичница, Жевакин, Анучкин, Подколесин и др.), демонстрируя общественное внимание к чину, приданому и наружности. Подколесин, долго колебавшийся и вконец подталкиваемый приятелем Кочкаревым, кажется готов к немедленному браку, тогда как сцена наполнена нервной суетой, интригами и фарсом. В кульминации, перед венчаньем, под давлением страха и смущения Подколесин в панике убегает — сатирическое разоблачение показной серьезности «взрослой» жизни.