Plays/Films/Dramas

The Greek theater and its drama

Roy C. Flickinger

The work is a scholarly study of ancient Greek theater, written by Roy C.

Volpone; Or, The Fox

Ben Jonson

Volpone; Or, The Fox is a 17th‑century English comedy that blends sharp satire with the conventions of…

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

The play opens with the melancholy Duke Orsino, who muses that music might be “the food of love,” then…

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband opens in a glittering London drawing‑room where society’s glitterati mingle…

Woyzeck

Georg Büchner

Der Text ist ein fragmentarisches Drama, das die Figuren des Hauptmanns, des einfachen Soldaten Woyzeck und…

Mrs. Warren's Profession

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession is a stage drama that confronts the gritty realities of working‑class…

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta is a Jacobean tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, first performed before the king and queen at…

Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

Charles S. Brooks

The work is a stage comedy that lampoons the conventions of pirate drama while indulging in the theatrical…

Petronio Peça livremente extrahida do romance Quo Vadis de Henryk Sienkiewicz

Marcelino Mesquita

Esta obra, extraída livremente do romance Quo Vadis de Henryk Sienkiewicz, apresenta‑se como um drama…

Folk-lore of Shakespeare

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

This work is a scholarly survey of the folklore that underlies Shakespeare’s drama.

Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes

Michael Strange

Clair de Lune is a full‑length drama in two acts and six scenes, written by Michael Strange.

Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

The work is Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, a domestic tragedy that foregrounds the tangled relations of a Norwegian…

Faust: A Tragedy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This edition presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust as a dramatic tragedy, first performed in the…

She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night” opens with a self‑referential…

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman opens with a sprawling, self‑referential address that frames the play as a…

The Power of Darkness

Leo Tolstoy

The work is a Russian drama rendered into English, attributed to Leo Tolstoy, graf.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 1, January 1810

The Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor opens as a manifesto for a new kind of periodical, arguing that…

The Straw

Eugene O'Neill

The Straw is a three‑act American drama set in a modest Connecticut town in the early 1910s.

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal is an 18th‑century English comedy that opens with a…

King Lear

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a tragedy that opens amid the political machinations of Britain’s noble…

Life Is a Dream

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life Is a Dream is a seventeenth‑century Spanish drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, whose prolific career…

Medea of Euripides

Euripides

The play Medea by Euripides is a Greek tragedy that opens not with the heroic exploits of the Argonauts but…

Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite

Molière

Molière’s Tartuffe, The Hypocrite is a French comedy of the seventeenth century, rendered here in an English…

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives

Titus Maccius Plautus

The volume gathers six of Plautus’s most celebrated New‑Comedy adaptations, Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia,…