Plays/Films/Dramas

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

The work is a Shakespearean comedy that opens with a raucous backstage scene in which a lord, a pair of…

The Post Office

Rabindranath Tagore

The work is a stage play translated from Bengali, written by Rabindranath Tagore, whose reputation as a poet…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

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

Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood

The volume gathers the surviving dramas of Thomas Heywood, one of the most prolific early‑modern English…

The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare

The Winter’s Tale unfolds as a sprawling tragicomedy that immediately thrusts the reader into a courtly world…

The Beggar's Opera; to Which is Prefixed the Musick to Each Song

John Gay

John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera is a ballad‑opera libretto first published in the eighteenth century, and this…

The Works of John Marston. Volume 3

John Marston

The third volume of John Marston’s collected works presents a full‑length city comedy that opens with a…

Jedermann: Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Das vorliegende Werk ist ein dramatisches Schauspiel von Hugo von Hofmannsthal, das 1911 im S.

One-Act Plays by Modern Authors

The volume is a curated anthology of one‑act dramas by a range of contemporary English‑ and American‑language…

Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning

Robert Browning

The volume gathers selections from Robert Browning’s poetry and drama, opening with an extensive biographical…

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

Dr. Doran

Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 continues the sweeping historical tragedy that dramatizes…

Milton's Comus

John Milton

Milton’s Comus is a short lyrical drama, first performed as a courtly masque at Ludlow Castle in September…

Ludus Coventriæ: A collection of mysteries, formerly represented at Coventry on the feast of Corpus Christi

The volume presents the Coventry Mysteries, a complete set of medieval English miracle‑plays once performed…

The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts

Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Blue Bird” is a six‑act fairy play that begins in a modest wood‑cutter’s cottage,…

Menexenus

Plato

The work is a scholarly discussion of the authenticity of Plato’s shorter dialogues, focusing especially on…

The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood

Frank Wedekind

Frank Wedekind’s The Awakening of Spring is a German drama translated into English that confronts the…

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice is a comedy set in Renaissance Venice that weaves together themes of trade,…

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11

A Woman is a Weather‑cocke is a short early‑seventeenth‑century comedy by Nathaniel Field, first printed in…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15

The volume is a sprawling anthology that gathers a wide variety of literary fragments, essays, poems, and…

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

This volume presents two of Aeschylus’ most celebrated tragedies, “Prometheus Bound” and “The Seven Against…

Justice

John Galsworthy

Justice is a stage‑play by John Galsworthy that opens in the cramped, timber‑lined managing clerk’s room of…

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

Kālidāsa

This volume presents the English translations of Kālidāsa’s Sanskrit drama and poetry, beginning with a…

Nathan the Wise; A Dramatic Poem in Five Acts

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Nathan the Wise is Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s five‑act dramatic poem, a work that blends the structure of a…