Drama category: 27605 books

A playwright and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. George Baker also performed with comedian Henry C. Barnabee, appearing in "lyceum entertainments" in New England. Contents A Tender Attachment (1871) Santa Claus' Frolics (1868) An Old Man's Prayer (1867) Gentlemen...

Plays for Today by Women A wide-ranging collection of plays by women dealing with contemporary subjects such as sexual abuse, recession, war, poverty and the complexity of modern women’s lives. Many roles for women and girls provided. Suitable for study or for performance or as part...

Eine Bauernfamilie kommt durch Kohlenfunde zu Geld. Doch der Alkohol, der "geliebte Fusel", von dem man einfach nicht lassen kann, macht alles zunichte. Die Uraufführung von Hauptmanns sozialem Drama "Vor Sonnenaufgang" am 20. Oktober 1889 setzte das naturalistische Drama endgültig...

Three stories, three lives, three journeys to find a place called home. Cheung Wing is escaping from war, Mei Lan’s had enough of the potato peeler, and Yi Di wants the impossible – her parents’ approval. Award-winning writer Mary Cooper and multilingual collaborator M W Sun have...

You don't want to go to war on this, Tom. I mean, not now. Not after everything. You don't want to lose more than you can afford. Brad Birch (Pinter Commission winner, 2016) takes Ibsen's An Enemy of the People into the centre of a very modern scandal. How does Tom Stockmann keep both people...

The debut novel! A provocative, sexy, sometimes sad, and witty all-night-read about three women and Beau, their gay male roommate. The four friends call themselves Cohorts, and believe their friendship is near perfect...until one of the women betrays beautiful, buff Beau, by cavorting with his man....

Arno Holz, Johannes Schlaf: Die Familie Selicke. Drama in drei Aufzügen Das bahnbrechende Stück für das naturalistische Drama soll den Zuschauer »in ein Stück Leben wie durch ein Fenster« blicken lassen. Arno Holz, der »die Familie Selicke« 1889 gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Johannes Schlaf geschrieben...

The influence of the women’s movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women’s drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years...

Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award. Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks...

Very short verse drama, in the original German. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry,...

"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a playwright, novelist, journalist and writer of screenplays. His most important plays included...

What are you waiting for? The play’s the thing! Aida is planning to go to university and study science to get a practical in-demand job.  However, there is a catch: Aida is a talented actress. When a famous theatre school invites her to audition for a spot, Aida's friends and relatives are...

Los capítulos de Drama sin escenario contienen tres aspectos útiles a los lectores. En primer lugar, presentan los títulos, datos y secuencia de escritura o representación de los textos de cada uno de los dramaturgos estudiados: Galdós, Ganivet, Unamuno, Azorín, los Machado, Valle-Inclán, Gómez...

The 2014 winner of the Yale Drama Series   “The play does not have a tragic ending, though you will be certain that it must. But it is a tragic story. It is the tragedy of lives lived without hope of deliverance. . . .   I will leave you to read the play and determine how on earth we get to a satisfying...