Drama category: 27605 books
by Henrik Ibsen, Thornton Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
"In [Wilder's] A Doll's House . . . the relationship of dialogue to action is very special, like nothing that had been heard on stage before."—David Hammond, PlayMakers Repertory CompanyNot staged since its Broadway premiere starring Ruth Gordon in 1937, the first-ever publication of this adaptation...
Antigone
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
Hedda Gabler
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato’s Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system...
The Seagull
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
World Drama, Volume 1
26 Unabridged Plays
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This anthology was designed not only for the serious student of world literature and the drama, but for everyone interested in the stage. It is an unusual collection, containing many great plays which are not ordinarily to be found in anthologies, and several which are not currently to be found in...
The Miser
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
by Kenneth Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Ed has put on the local fireworks display for years. This year is no different and he is busy preparing - all the time knowing that this will be the last for financial reasons.
This year has a little surprise in store for Ed and his worker Nick as the supply of fireworks that he is sending...
by Maxim Gorky
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of th
Imprisoned for his revolutionary activities...
by Dina Yafasova
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
One night in 1974, Archana, her brother’s wife and a family friend who happens to be staying the night at their house, were taken hostage by the police, because Archana’s younger brother, Saumen, was a member of a terrorist underground movement which is at war with the police and preparing for...
National Theatre Connections Monologues
Speeches for Young Actors
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
For the first time, there is an anthology of monologues for young people available, taken from plays commissioned as part of the National Theatre Connections over the past 20 years.
Always drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers –...
Tis Pity She's a Whore
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
Deciphering Shakespeare's Plays
A Practical Guide to the Twenty Best-Known and Enduring Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Deciphering Shakespeare’s Plays: A Practical Guide to the 20 Best-Known and Enduring Works brings William Shakespeare’s 400-year-old dramas alive in a new introduction for students, playgoers, and general readers. This guide doesn’t just dissect great soliloquies on the page—it illuminates...
Brecht Collected Plays: 5
Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
The fifth volume in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's best-known and most...