Drama category: 27605 books
Peer Gynt
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
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,...
Tin Soldier and Other Plays for Children
adapted from (The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen) A Tasty Tale (Hansel and Gretel) Hood in the Wood (Little Red Riding Hood)
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
A collection of three enchanting plays adapted from popular fairy tales and suitable for family audiences: Tin Soldier (adapted from The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen), A Tasty Tale (Hansel and Gretel), Hood in the Wood (Little Red Riding Hood).
Acclaimed playwright Noel...
Speaking Out
Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within...
by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus a distinguished scholar turns away from learning and embraces necromancy to satisfy his yearning for knowledge, power and influence. Faustus trades his soul to Lucifer for the secrets of the universe, only to find that satisfaction remains beyond his grasp....
by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine
established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance
drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one
of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and fall of a
Scythian peasant-warrior who conquers...
by Richard Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was made between 1857 and 1859 and premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 June...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
One of the foremost dramatists of the 19th century, Russian author Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) created a body of work noted for its realistic dialogue and keen insights into human relationships. This collection of five one-act plays — in the celebrated Constance Garnett translations — shows Chekhov...
by Anton Chekhov, Tracy Letts
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
"Zestier and more colloquial than most translations . . . Letts' main achievement here is to make Chekhov more emotional, accessible and active."—Chicago Tribune
"I've seen over a dozen Three Sisters, but never has the final scene . . . registered so hard. It's the cumulative...
by Henrik Ibsen, Tom Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
With an Introduction by Ellen Rees, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo.
The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions and created a more realistic form of...
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
A German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and...
by William Wycherley, Dr Tiffany Stern, James Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.'
This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery, whose husband believes she is too naïve to...
Working on the Play and the Role
The Stanislavsky Method for Analyzing the Characters in a Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
In order to create a living character on the stage, the actor needs more than masterful technique. He must work on the play in a way that will enable him to understand the meaning of each of the roles in it, and the nature of the relations between these roles. Stanislavsky developed his method of...
The Rover
Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group of love-struck Englishmen in Naples, Aphra Behn's...
The Hypochondriac
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,...