Drama category: 27605 books

Ángel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas (1791-1865) tuvo una vida turbulenta, apasionada, romántica y contradictoria como la época en que le tocó vivir. Luchó en la guerra de la Independencia y tras ésta se exilió por sus ideas liberales en 1823. Vivió en Londres, Italia y Malta, y en ese momento...

10 male, 5 female, 5 either cast! Free Royalty offer exended! There is no royalty fee for this play to be produced as a community theater or student production by a public or charter school before January 1, 2014. After January 1, 2014 – community theaters and school royalties are only $5 per performance....

"The most complete collection of the Russian playwright's repertoire."—Vogue This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and...

Thomas Kyd was a prominent English playwright who played a pivotal role in the development of drama during the Elizabethan Era.  Kyd is most famous today for writing The Spanish Tragedy, a very influential play that helped establish the revenge play genre. The Spanish Tragedy was written in...

“Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English.” – James Wood, New Yorker * * Best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov had a knack for political allegory. Both Molière, or the Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote...

Pontiac, or Ponteach, was a Native American leader who made war upon the British in what became known as Pontiac's Rebellion (1763 to 1766). One of the earliest accounts of Pontiac is a play, written in 1766 by the famous frontier soldier Robert Rogers, of the Rangers. Ponteach, or the Savages of...

'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, poetry, and critical writings, we get an unsurpassed...

Five-act play. According to Wikipedia: "George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism,...

Classic Schiller drama in English translation. . According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with...

Four classic Russian plays. According to the introduction, "ALEXANDER NIKOLAYEVICH Ostrovsky (1823-86) is the great Russian dramatist of the central decades of the nineteenth century, of the years when the realistic school was all-powerful in Russian literature, of the period when Turgenev, Dostoyevsky,...

Classic Schiller drama in English translation. . According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with...

With an historical sketch of the origin and growth of drama in England. First published in 1872. According to Wikipedia: William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos Edición de José María Díez Borque, Catedrático de Literatura Española de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña reúne todas las cualidades que hicieron de Lope de Vega una de las grandes figuras de la literatura...