Plays/Films/Dramas

King Henry V

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s historical drama about Henry V, the English monarch who ruled from 1413 to 1422.

Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections

Clara Morris

Life on the Stage is Clara Morris’s autobiographical memoir, a chronicle of a nineteenth‑century actress’s…

A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character

Dutton Cook

This work is a nineteenth‑century compendium of anecdotes, statistics and curiosities about British theatre,…

Chitra, a Play in One Act

Rabindranath Tagore

The work is a one‑act dramatic poem by Rabindranath Tagore that retells the mythic episode of Chitrangada,…

Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays

Sir Sidney Lee

The work is a collection of eleven essays by Sir Sidney Lee, written between 1899 and 1905 and first…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that centers on the royal family of Denmark, exploring themes of…

The Shakespeare Story-Book

Macleod, Mary; Shakespeare, William

The Shakespeare Story‑Book is a nineteenth‑century adaptation that retells the plots of twenty of…

Tales from Shakespeare

Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Mary

The volume is a collection of simplified retellings of Shakespeare’s plays, intended for very young readers.

The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

This volume gathers Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s most celebrated German dramas in English translation,…

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Xianzu Tang

Sejanus: His Fall

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Sejanus: His Fall is a dramatic work that sits at the intersection of tragedy and Roman history,…

Ivanoff: A Play

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ivanoff is a Russian drama translated into English, set in the evening garden of a country estate.

Los Sueños, Volume I

Francisco de Quevedo

Este libro es la primera parte de Los Sueños, la obra satírica principal que Francisco de Quevedo compuso…

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Macbeth is a dramatic work that belongs to the Shakespearean canon of tragedies, focusing on…

King Richard III

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a historical drama that dramatizes the final years of the…

The wild duck: A drama in five acts

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen’s five‑act drama, The Wild Duck, presents a densely populated Norwegian household where…

The Art of the Moving Picture

Vachel Lindsay

The work is a scholarly manifesto for the emerging medium of motion pictures, written by Vachel Lindsay, a…

Shakespeare and music: With Illustrations From the Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries

Edward W. Naylor

This work is a scholarly survey that brings together what is already familiar to Shakespeare specialists and…

Misalliance

Bernard Shaw

Misalliance is a late‑Victorian English drama that opens in the spacious, glass‑enclosed pavilion of Johnny…

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays

Lamb, Charles; Lamb, Mary

This volume gathers the poetry and drama of Charles and Mary Lamb, presenting the full range of their…

Candida

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Candida opens on an October morning in a sprawling, middle‑class suburb of London, where the…

The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 07 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

This volume gathers the later Norwegian dramas of Henrik Ibsen, presented here in English translation.

Arden of Feversham

Arden of Feversham is an Elizabethan domestic tragedy, first entered in the Stationers’ Registers in 1592 and…