Plays & playscripts Books

This play was one of the first examples of Indian literature to be seen in Europe; it attracted considerable attention (among others, from Goethe), and indeed pained surprise that such a sophisticated art-form could have developed without the rest of the...

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text...

Its frivolous subject may have been the reason why Malavika and Agni mitra is sometimes considered to be the least significant of the three dramas of Kali dasa, the poet laureate of Indian antiquity who probably lived in the fifth century CE. Yet the...

One of the three surviving plays by Kali dasa (fifth century), universally acknowledged as the supreme poet in classical Sanskrit, How Urvashi Was Won, like the other two, is a masterpiece of lyricism, subtle characterization, and the working through of...

Two tragic plays that break the rules: both show the hero dying on stage, a scenario forbidden in Sanskrit dramaturgy. King Harsha's play, composed in the seventh century, re-examines the Buddhist tale of a magician prince who makes the ultimate...

"Jules Verne", the most translated novelist in the world and best known for books such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" and "Around the World in Eighty Days", was also a prolific playwright. "Journey Through the Impossible", a play of fantasy...

The only extant play by the great Irish novelist, "Exiles" is of interest both for its autobiographical content and for formal reason. In the characters and their circumstances details of Joyce's life are evident. The main character, Richard Rowan, the...

At a time when good editions of drama in English are prohibitively expensive and online texts are unedited and lack the apparatus necessary for students to understand and contextualize the plays, this anthology affordably illustrates every significant...

The Fortune-Teller is Victor Séjour's retelling of Edgardo Mortara's removal from his home by the Bologna inquisitor. In Séjour's rendering, an infant girl Noémi is taken from her Jewish family after being baptized by a wet nurse. Seventeen years later,...

NEW FOR 2025 – Barrington Stoke’s long-awaited first dyslexia-friendly plays The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s renowned tragedy of “two star-crossed lovers” who meet amidst an age-old feud between...

A comprehensive collection of lyrical and comedic works by Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza, complemented by the sacred poem about Mary by Ambrosio Cano. This second impression has been carefully corrected and amended to rectify the numerous errors that marred...

1nb/trans, 5f, 3m, 2 offstage voicesWhen a group of former friends find the same note in their lockers telling them to go to an abandoned house in the middle of the night, they all show up, against their better judgement. Each admits to feeling pulled by...

Hank Carson thrived on danger, freedom, and the thrill of the unknown. During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, he meets Adele Culpepper by chance-and in the heat of passion, they get married. But when life shifts from the wilderness of the Yukon Territory...