Plays/Films/Dramas

King Lear

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a tragedy that centers on a monarch’s fraught relationship with his…

Burlesque Plays and Poems

This volume is a survey of English burlesque, gathering together poems and stage pieces that lampoon the…

The Cid

Pierre Corneille

The work is a dramatic retelling of the life of the legendary Castilian hero known as the Cid, composed by…

William Wycherley [Four Plays]

William Wycherley

William Wycherley’s Four Plays presents the quintessential Restoration comedy, a genre that blossomed after…

"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)

Dr. Doran

Ubu Roi, ou, les Polonais

Alfred Jarry

Ce texte est une pièce de théâtre absurde du XIXᵉ siècle, signée Alfred Jarry, qui se présente dès le premier…

The Lower Depths: A Drama in Four Acts

Maksim Gorky

The Lower Depths is a four‑act Russian drama by Maksim Gorky, rendered here in an English translation that…

The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy

John Galsworthy

The mediaeval stage, volume 1 (of 2)

E. K. Chambers

The work is a scholarly survey of English theatrical development from the collapse of classical forms through…

Boris Godunov: A Drama in Verse

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

This work is Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin’s dramatic poem about the turbulent reign of Boris Godunov, the…

The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04

John Dryden

The volume presents John Dryden’s heroic drama The Conquest of Granada, a two‑part play that was first staged…

Turkish Literature; Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred Traditions

This volume presents a broad survey of Ottoman literary production, gathered from a range of genres that…

Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair is a seventeenth‑century English comedy that opens not with a conventional…

Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship

William Archer

This work is a practical handbook for aspiring dramatists, presented as a series of numbered chapters that…

Rachel: A Play in Three Acts

Angelina Weld Grimké

Rachel: A Play in Three Acts is an early‑20th‑century American drama that opens in a meticulously described…

Plays

Susan Glaspell

The piece is a stage drama by Susan Glaspell, set in a bleak, untidy farmhouse kitchen where a small group of…

Robert Greene: [Six Plays]

Robert Greene

The volume gathers six of Robert Greene’s early‑modern dramas, presenting the playwright as both a product…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, a drama that weaves together themes of succession, murder, revenge,…

Molière - Œuvres complètes, Tome 3

Molière

Ce volume rassemble les pièces complètes de Molière, et le troisième tome s’ouvre sur une préface dense qui…

Vera; Or, The Nihilists

Oscar Wilde

Vera; Or, The Nihilists is a stage drama that opens in a bleak Russian village inn, where the patriarch Peter…

The Beaux-Stratagem

George Farquhar

The Beaux‑Stratagem is a Restoration comedy by George Farquhar, first staged in March 1707 at the Queen’s…

Contemporary One-Act Plays

The volume is a curated anthology of contemporary one‑act plays, assembled with an explicit educational…

Swan Song

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Chekhov’s “Swan Song” is a short one‑act drama written in 1889, set on the dimly lit stage of a…

The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy

Friedrich Schiller

The work is Friedrich Schiller’s dramatic tragedy “The Maid of Orleans,” a stage‑play that opens in a…