Drama category: 27605 books

A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016. Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, a comedy of manners about...

Johannes Schlaf: Meister Oelze. Drama in drei Aufzügen Erstdruck: Berlin (Fischer) 1892. Erste öffentliche Aufführung am Ostersonntag 1900 in Magdeburg. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2017. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Naturalismus – Dramen....

Der französische Ich-Erzähler wartet auf dem damaligen Theaterplatz (heutiger Rathenauplatz) von Frankfurt am Main vergeblich auf drei Stadtverordnete, die an seiner Ballonfahrt teilnehmen wollten. Aufgrund der enttäuschten Zuschauer, die dem Start entgegenfiebern, beschließt der Ballonpilot den...

Classic play about Renaissance Italy, 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...

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Aufgeregten. Politisches Drama in fünf Akten Begonnen 1793, unvollendet. Erstdruck in: Werke, Stuttgart u. Tübingen (Cotta) 1817. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Goethes Werke. Hamburger...

"Welcome to Venice Heights where sex, drama, and murder is raised. TJ is a seven-year-old that was raised in a foster home where drama and jealousy made TJ run away to find his mom without knowing where to turn. He is a lost soul trying to find his way in life. In his struggle, he meets Diamond, who...

Escape Route An ironic comedy in which an affluent New York book publisher and her chauffeur companion are stranded overnight in an isolated farmhouse with a French Canadian widow, her schoolteacher son and adolescent grandson. A contest of wills over the grandson's future ensues between his grandmother,...

"It is that joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and deep political purpose that affords nonstop pleasure."-Time Into the Woods brings well-known fairytale characters to musical life, interwoven with the story of a baker and his wife, whose longing for a child...

The Bohannon Brothers - Ireland and America, 1857-1865 A timeless historical novel set in Ireland and the United States during the American Civil War era; this unique story plays out through the lives of immigrant Irish characters from Connemara, in County Galway, Ireland. Ireland, Connemara, 1857-60:...

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Satyros oder der vergötterte Waldteufel. Drama Entstanden 1773. Erstdruck in Werke, Stuttgart und Tübingen (Cotta) 1817. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Berliner...

In your quest for respectability I think we can say you have been talking out of both corners of your mouth. One corner talks to your rich backers, the other to your street-fighters. Hans Litten is one of the most celebrated lawyers in Berlin, famed for his brilliant mind and the rhetorical flair...

Brief Dramas for Worship provides dramas that are suitable for both contemporary and traditional worship services.  They are appropriate for use instead of a sermon, or as the sermon.  Included are questions and comments to use in a discussion following the service so that key insights from the...

Lizzie lives with a man she calls Grandfather in an isolated cottage. For her, home is a single room with bars on the windows and a locked door. This is the only life she has ever known. That has to change. The Goose Maiden has been performed to rave reviews. Newly revised and re-edited,...

Dieses eBook: "Napoleon oder Die hundert Tage" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Napoleon oder Die hundert Tage ist ein Drama in fünf Aufzügen von Christian Dietrich Grabbe. Der Erstdruck erschien 1831 in Frankfurt...