Plays/Films/Dramas

La Cintia

Giambattista della Porta

La Cintia è una drammatizzazione barocca di Giambattista della Porta, ambientata a Napoli e strutturata come…

The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

The volume you hold is the first of a nine‑part Cambridge edition of Shakespeare’s comedies, presenting The…

A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument

Jeremy Collier

Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage is a polemical treatise…

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10

The volume presents a late‑Jacobean revenge tragedy, catalogued as “The Revenger’s Tragedy” and first entered…

The Melting-Pot

Israel Zangwill

The Melting‑Pot is a stage play that opens in the cramped, eclectic living‑room of the Quixano household on a…

長生殿

Sheng Hong

The Miser

Molière

The work is a five‑act comedy by Molière, first performed on 9 September 1668, in which the playwright adapts…

Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman is a 17th‑century English comedy that foregrounds inheritance,…

The Acharnians

Aristophanes

Aristophanes’ The Acharnians is a Greek comedy that opens in the bustling Athenian assembly, where the weary…

The Works of John Marston. Volume 2

John Marston

The volume presents John Marston’s early seventeenth‑century comedy, a full‑length stage play that opens with…

Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

This volume presents William Shakespeare’s early comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona, rendered in a scholarly…

Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker’s “Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving” is a memoir‑style portrait of the celebrated Victorian…

Faust — Part 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This volume presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s first part of Faust, a German drama that draws on the…

The Growth of English Drama

Arnold Wynne

Arnold Wynne’s The Growth of English Drama is a scholarly survey that sets out to fill the gaps left by…

Faust: Der Tragödie zweiter Teil

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Der Text ist ein dramatisches Gedicht, das sich in die Sphären deutscher Sage und Magie einreiht.

Sir Henry Irving—A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum

Percy Fitzgerald

Percle Fitzgerald’s “Sir Henry Irving, A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum” is a detailed,…

西廂記

Shifu Wang

The Master Builder

Henrik Ibsen

The Master Builder is Henrik Ibsen’s late‑stage drama, presented here with an extensive scholarly…

King Richard II

William Shakespeare

The play opens amid a heated accusation in the royal court, where Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray, two…

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah is a sprawling dramatic essay that begins with a self‑referential anecdote…

1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

Mark Twain

The work is a satirical, imagined dialogue set in Queen Elizabeth’s private chambers, where the monarch, Ben…

Four Plays of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Four of Aeschylus’s surviving dramas are gathered here, each a fragment of a larger trilogy that once formed…

La Celestina

Fernando de Rojas

La obra que tienes ante ti es una edición electrónica de La Celestina de Fernando de Rojas, una pieza…

Don Carlos: A Play

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller’s drama “Don Carlos” opens with a tense exchange between the prince and his attendant…