Plays/Films/Dramas

Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native.

Dinabandhu Mitra

Nil Darpan is a Bengali drama translated into English by Dinabandhu Mitra, offering a stage‑focused critique…

Othello

William Shakespeare

This work is Shakespeare’s tragic drama Othe Othello, set in Venice and revolving around the Moorish general…

Ifigenio en Taŭrido

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work is a dramatic retelling of the myth of Iphigenia, presented as a series of dialogues and monologues…

Arms and the Man

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man is a satirical drama that pits the romantic myths of war against the gritty…

The Bacchae of Euripides

Euripides

The Bacchae is a Greek tragedy that opens on the ramparts of Pentheus’s palace, where the god Dionysus…

Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher

Charles Mills Gayley

The work is a scholarly biography that treats Francis Beaumont not merely as half of the famous…

Henri VI (1/3)

William Shakespeare

Cette première partie de Henri VI s’inscrit dans la trilogie historique qui porte le nom du roi d’Angleterre…

The Seven Plays in English Verse

Sophocles

The volume presents the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles in English verse, rendered from the translator’s…

The Birds

Aristophanes

Aristophanes’ The Birds is a full‑blown comedy that launches with two weary Athenians, Euelpides and…

Henri VI (3/3)

William Shakespeare

Cette pièce, tirée du troisième volet de la trilogie « Henri VI » de William Shakespeare, se déroule au cœur…

The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 1

Winter, William; Winter, William Jefferson

The Chinese theater

A. E. Zucker

The Chinese theater is a scholarly survey of Chinese drama that blends historical overview with the author’s…

Phaedra

Jean Racine

Jean Racine’s Phaedra is a French classical tragedy that re‑imagines the Greek myth of Phaedra, wife of…

The Imaginary Invalid

Molière

The work is a French comedy of the seventeenth‑century stage, known as The Imaginary Invalid, in which…

Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. Unexpurgated Edition

Thomas Dekker

The volume gathers the surviving dramatic works of Thomas Dekker, a playwright whose career first surfaces in…

The Trojan Women of Euripides

Euripides

The Trojan Women is Euripides’ stark, anti‑heroic tragedy that opens on a ruined battlefield just after the…

The Inspector-General

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The Inspector‑General is a comedy of Russian drama that quickly establishes its cultural weight by…

Gli duoi fratelli rivali

Giambattista della Porta

Il volume è una drammatizzazione in più atti di una “favola” ambientata a Salerno, in cui si intrecciano…

A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde

The work is a stage comedy that immediately immerses the reader in a bustling country‑house drawing‑room,…

Henri VI (2/3)

William Shakespeare

Cette pièce de Shakespeare, tirée de la trilogie sur le roi Henri VI, s’ouvre sur une scène de cour où le…

Don Juan Tenorio

José Zorrilla

Don Juan Tenorio opens as a bustling tavern scene in the inn of Cristófano Buttarelli, where masked revelers,…

Every Man in His Humor

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour is a late‑Elizabethan comedy that opens with a brisk exposition of its…

The Robbers

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers is a German tragedy translated into English, centered on the tangled fates…

The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon

Thomas Hardy

The Dynasts is an expansive dramatic reconstruction of the Napoleonic Wars, written by Thomas Hardy and…