Drama Books

Sappho

  [german | 1818]  

Franz Grillparzer

Excerpts: [... Volke. Willkommen auf der Heimat altem Boden, Willkommen in der Deinen frohem Kreis. Sappho. Umsonst sollt ihr die Brgerin nicht gren, Sie fhrt zum ...... Schwester, Die Rolle von dem schwarzen Simse holte Ein Lied von dir, von Sappho uns zu sagen, Wie schwiegen da die lauten Jnglinge, Wie rckten da die ...... das Herz von sehnendem Verlangen Und meine Renner sanken tot am Wege Eh' ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 273

Scnes De Mer Tome I

  [french | 1835]  

Edouard Corbire

Summary: [Scenes De Mer Tome I Dodo Press French Edition by Edouard Corbiere. Jean-Antoine-Ren e- Edouard Corbi ere dit Edouard Corbi ere n e a Brest Finist ere 1793-1875 . Marin ecrivain journaliste et armateur Edouard Corbi ere p ere du po ete Tristan Corbi ere est aujourd hui consid er e comme le p ere du roman maritime en France . Orphelin de p ere en 1802 le jeune Edouard n a alors d autre choix que d ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 212

Seitsemn Veljest Kertomus

  [english | 1870]  

Aleksis Kivi

Summary: [Aleksis Kivi born Alexis Stenvall (10 October 1834 ? 31 December 1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language Seven Brothers. Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language he is still considered one of the greatest of them all. Aleksis Kivi was born at Nurmijrvi Finland to a tailors family. In 1846 he left for ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 43

Sejanus His Fall

  [english | 1603]  

Ben Jonson

Summary: [Dedicated To the Right Honourable John Earl of Bute.]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 2

Sherlock Holmes

  [french | 1899]  

Arthur Conan Doyle

Summary: [The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes is a short story collection written by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr]
Genres: [fiction | drama | mystery detective] Downloads: 242

Six Personnages En Quete Dauteur

  [french | 1921]  

Luigi Pirandello

Summary: [Six personnages surgissent sur un plateau troublant une rptition en cours et prtendant avoir t abandonns par leur auteur... La scne devient un espace o ils veulent pouvoir revivre leurs drames intrieurs sous les yeux dun directeur de thtre partag entre le dsir de suivre ces personnages insolites jusquau bout de leur douloureuse folie et la volont de marquer le pouvoir et de dicter les rgles. Ils ...]
Genres: [fiction | drama] Downloads: 341

The Acharnians

  [english | 425]  

Aristophanes

Summary: [Aristophanes (??????????? ca. 446 ? ca. 386 BC) son of Philippus of the deme Cydathenaus was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These together with fragments of some of his other plays provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also ...]
Genres: [drama | classic] Downloads: 258

The Admirable Bashville

  [english | 1913]  

George Bernard Shaw

Summary: [George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism his main talent was for drama and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | drama] Downloads: 8

The Albany Depot

  [english | 1892]  

William Dean Howells

Summary: [William Dean Howells (March 1 1837 ? May 11 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He was known for the Christmas story Christmas Every Day and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham.]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 331

The Alchemist

  [english | 1610]  

Ben Jonson

Summary: [Bibliography: p. 392-398.]
Genres: [drama | humor] Downloads: 82

The Battle Of Bunkers Hill

  [english | 1776]  

Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Summary: [Evans]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 283

The Beaux Stratagem

  [english | 1707]  

George Farquhar

Excerpts: [... scene-which affords a curious view of the marriage tie and on which Leigh Hunt has founded an argument for divorce. This play contains several examples ...... them and turns them into respectable and adoring husbands. Though rattle-brained, much given to gallantry, and somewhat lax in morality, they are ...... Theatre at the Westminster Aquarium. Lastly, William Farren, as Archer, ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 370

The Belles Of Canterbury

  [english | 1912]  

Anna Bird Stewart

Excerpts: [... 25 CENTS=. NEW YORK LONDON SAMUEL FRENCH SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. PUBLISHER 26 SOUTHAMPTON STREET 28-30 WEST 38TH STREET STRAND. =THE BELLES OF CANTERBURY=. PERSONS ...... gray and lavender, with a tall headdress of wire covered with white gauze and tinsel. The WIFE OF BATH wears a short skirted costume of very bright ...... that last Thanksgiving I would have eaten twice as much. I ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 41

The Big Drum

  [english | 1915]  

Arthur Wing Pinero

Excerpts: [... upon which are dishes of fruit, an array of ice-plates and finger-bowls, liqueurs in decanters, glasses, silver, etc. The pictures, the ornaments upon ...... you were talking of Ottoline and her people. [Dropping his voice.] The Big Drum.. ROOPE. [Thoughtfully.] C-c-capital. PHILIP. Titterton, ...... at the side table. NOYES. [To ROOPE.] Lunch is served, sir. ROOPE. [To everybody.] ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 444

The Birds

  [english | ]  

Aristophanes

Summary: [The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a book published as no.155 in the zoological monograph series Bulletins of the United States National Museum. It was authored by Alexander Wetmore with the assistance of Bradshaw H. Swales and was published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC in 1931. It is in octavo format (248 x 156 mm) and contains iv + 484 pages bound in a grey ...]
Genres: [drama | classic] Downloads: 133

The Bride Of Messina

  [english | 1803]  

Friedrich Von Schiller

Summary: [Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 - 9 May 1805) was a German poet philosopher historian and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788?1805) Schiller struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 453

The Cabinet Minister

  [english | 1892]  

Arthur Wing Pinero

Excerpts: [... gave place to very enthusiastic receptions on succeeding nights, and, in spite of the perplexity confessed in many of the criticisms of the play, ...... WHITE. [Looking about him.] Phew. the atmosphere's charged with it. That fellow with his hair powdered nearly sent me running down the street ...... as children. He will be too delighted. VALENTINE WHITE. I recollect Lord Vibart, ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 231

The Climbers

  [english | 1901]  

Clyde Fitch

Excerpts: [... the table and put back the ornaments upon it._] Poor Mr. Hunter, and him so fond of mince pie. I shall never forget how that man ate mince pie. [_She ...... letter._. [Enter MISS RUTH HUNTER. _She is an unmarried woman between thirty and forty years of age, handsome, distinguished an aristocrat, without ...... HUNTER. I suppose you've come about all the horrid business. Why not ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 186

The Clouds

  [english | ]  

Aristophanes

Summary: [White Fluffy Clouds is a book by Brandon Boyd lead singer of the rock group Incubus. The book is compiled with artwork poetry insights reflections and ramblings and candid portraits. It also contains some of Boyds drawings and artworks pictures poems lyrics and other material.]
Genres: [drama | classic] Downloads: 358

The Comedies Of Carlo Goldoni

  [english | 1892]  

Carlo Goldoni

Excerpts: [... property had to be sold, and when all debts were paid there remained only the mother's dowry for the maintenance of the whole family. However, there ...... for the term of his days. The proposed gift came too late, but it honours those who voted it and him who pleaded for it, no less a person than Joseph-Marie ...... trista memoria ormai si taccia E pognansi in oblio le andate cose,...]
Genres: [drama | humor] Downloads: 147