Classic and pre-20th century plays Books

Le livre ""Le Theatre Anglois V5 (1747)"" est une collection d'�����uvres de th����������tre de l'auteur William Shakespeare. Il s'agit du cinqui�����me volume de la s�����rie ""Le Theatre Anglois"" et a �����t����� publi����� en 1747. Le livre contient...

L'Impresario In Angustie, Ou Le Directeur Dans Lembarras, Opera Bouffon (1792) est un livre �����crit par Pierre Ulric Dubuisson. Il s'agit d'un op�����ra bouffon qui raconte l'histoire d'un directeur de th����������tre en difficult�����. Le personnage...

Extraits D'Aristophane (1873) est un livre qui contient des extraits de pi�����ces de th����������tre �����crites par Aristophane, un c�����l�����bre dramaturge grec antique. Les extraits comprennent des passages de pi�����ces telles que Les Oiseaux, Les...

'Asinaria' reveals the play as a key to Roman social relations centered on many kinds of slavery: to sex, money, and family structure; to masculinity and social standing; to senility and partying; and to jokes, lies, and idiocy. This work includes...

Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy family. It dramatizes the mysterious death of Oedipus, by which he is transformed into an immortal hero protecting Athens. This was Sophocles'...

The Troades Of Euripides is a play written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, first performed in 415 BC. The play is a tragedy that follows the story of the Trojan women, who are taken as captives by the Greeks after the fall of Troy. The play...

The Tragedy of King Richard II is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1595 and first published in 1597. The play is set in England and tells the story of King Richard II, who is deposed by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, who becomes King Henry IV. The...

The Elder Brother Or Love Makes A Man: A Comedy, In Five Acts (1848) is a play written by John Fletcher. The story revolves around the character of Don Frederick, the elder brother who is in love with Leonora, a woman who is already engaged to his...

The Choephorce of Aeschylus and Scholia is a book written by Aeschylus, a Greek tragedian, and published in 1862. It is a collection of poems and commentaries on the play, The Choephorce, which is the second part of the Oresteia trilogy. The play tells...

""Marcus Manlius: A Tragedy, In Five Acts"" is a play written by David Elwin Colombine and published in 1837. The play is set in ancient Rome and centers around the story of Marcus Manlius, a Roman general who saved the city from an invasion by the Gauls...

""L'Ecole Du Scandale, Ou Les Moeurs Du Jour: Comedie"" is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1789. The play is set in London and revolves around the scandalous behavior of the upper class. The main character, Sir Peter Teazle, is a wealthy...

""Iphigenie in Taurien"" ist ein Drama des antiken griechischen Autors Euripides aus dem 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Es handelt von der griechischen Prinzessin Iphigenie, die von ihrem Vater Agamemnon geopfert werden sollte, aber von der G������ttin Artemis...

""History of William Shakespeare, Player and Poet: With New Facts and Traditions"" is a book written by Stephen Watson Fullom in 1864. The book provides a comprehensive account of the life and works of the famous playwright and poet, William Shakespeare...

""Hermon Prince of Choraea, or The Extravagant Zealot: A Tragedy"" is a play written by Michael Clancy in 1746. The story follows the titular character, Hermon, who is a prince of Choraea and a devout follower of a religious sect. Hermon's zealousness...

Acting and Directing Shakespeare's Comedies: Key Lessons is an accessible book for actors, directors, students of Shakespeare, and those who want a fuller, richer awareness of the possibilities within Shakespeare's comedies and a clear, pragmatic process...

This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship...

""Aristoteles �����ber Kunst, besonders �����ber Trag������die"" (1870) von Joseph Hubert Reinkens ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber die aristotelische �����sthetik, insbesondere �����ber die Trag������die. Das Buch untersucht die verschiedenen...

An Actor's Tour: Or Seventy Thousand Miles With Shakespeare is a memoir written by Daniel Edward Bandmann, a renowned actor who toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Australia in the late 19th century. The book provides a detailed...

Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare's readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare's Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory,...

What's the worst thing you've ever done? Imagine having to reenact it night after night in front of a voracious audience.Impresario Randall "Rhadamanthus" Flynn has made this hellish punishment a reality at the Mountebank Theater. In a city descending...

Prior to the publication of his first collection of poetry, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems (1955), Beat poet Gregory Corso wrote three plays while living as a "stowaway" on the campus of Harvard University. The first...

In recent decades literary approaches to drama have multiplied: new historical, intertextual, political, performative and metatheatrical, socio-linguistic, gender-driven, transgenre-driven. New information has been amassed, sometimes by re-examination of...

Euripidis Ion est fabula tragica scripta ab Euripide, poeta Graeco, anno 1827. Fabula narrat de Ion, filio Apollinis et Creusae, qui vivit in Delphis, oraculi Apollinis loco. Ion crevit in templo Apollinis et servit deo, donec invenitur ab matre sua,...

Caswallon Or The Briton Chief: A Tragedy, In Five Acts is a play written by C. E. Walker in 1829. The story is set in ancient Britain and follows the titular character, Caswallon, a powerful and respected chief of the Britons. The play explores themes of...

This fascinating title, first published in 1922, presents a detailed overview of the life and works of Shakespeare. Alden first considers Shakespeare's Elizabethan context, alongside exploring the Classical and Italian foundations, political theories,...

Othello and Desdemona: Their Characters, and the Manner of Desdemona's Death is a book written by Alfred Ellits in 1886. The book is a critical analysis of William Shakespeare's play Othello, focusing on the characters of Othello and Desdemona, as well...

Drama For The Drawing Room: A Gift Book For The Season (1885) is a collection of short plays written by L. Debenham. The book is intended for the holiday season and features five plays that are suitable for performance in a drawing room setting. The...

Double Falsehood or The Distressed Lovers is a play that was first published in 1728, and is attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The play is believed to be a revised version of a lost play by Shakespeare and Fletcher called Cardenio. The...

Falstaff and His Companions is a book written by William Shakespeare and published in 1872. The book is a collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays that feature Sir John Falstaff, a beloved character known for his wit, humor, and larger-than-life...

Euripidis Alcestis est fabula tragica, scripta ab Euripide, poeta Graeco antiquo, anno 438 a.C. Fabula narrat de Alcestide, uxor Admeti regis Thessaliae, qui moritur, sed Alcestis, propter amorem suum, voluntarie mortem subit, ut maritum salvum servet...

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of thanking as a significant speech act in Shakespearean plays.

Shakespeare in Singapore provides the first detailed and sustained study of the role of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education, and culture.This book tracks the role and development of Shakespeare in education from the founding of modern Singapore...

Starting from the early modern presumption of the incorporation of role with authority, Jean Lambert explores male teachers as representing and engaging with types of authority in English plays and dramatic entertainments by Shakespeare and his...

A modern-day　Taming of the Shrew　that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from　Twelfth Night　sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance in the house of Capulet. Shakespeare and Girls' Studies...

An Athenian Farmer - fed up with the unending war against the Spartans - feeds so much of the shit the war has brought him to a dung-beetle that he is able to saddle it up and ride it - flying to the house of Zeus - there to plead the case for Peace.....

Falls Ende - Quintus is book five in this fast-paced medieval series.Haunted by his father's troubled past, Odo's life is in imminent danger when he journeys to Dover Castle to attend to the king and queen. Shaken by revelations shared with him by...

La Po�����tique d'Aristote (1692) est un livre �����crit par Aristoteles, un philosophe grec ancien. Ce livre est consid�����r����� comme l'un des textes les plus importants de la th�����orie de la litt�����rature et de l'art. Dans La Po�����tique,...

The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander's own plays were thought to...

Le livre ""Oedipe, Trag�����die de Sophocle: et Les Oiseaux, Com�����die d'Aristophane (1729)"" de Sophocle est une compilation de deux �����uvres classiques de la litt�����rature grecque antique. La premi�����re partie du livre est la trag�����die...

Ignoramus est comoedia scripta a Georgio Ruggle, quae anno 1787 publicata est. Fabula narrat de vitis et moribus hominum saeculi decimotertii, cum personis fictis et historicis. Personae principes sunt Ignoramus, unius iurisconsultus stultus, et...

The Phormio of Terence is a play written by the ancient Roman playwright Terence. This 1879 edition of the play is edited and translated by John Bond. The play follows the story of a young man named Antipho who falls in love with a woman named Phanium,...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle,...

Shakespeare’s Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The...

A modern edition of two of Ben Jonson's Masques.