Drama category: 27605 books

Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta (1734 - 1787) fue un poeta y dramaturgo español, hermano del sacerdote y también escritor Pedro García de la Huerta. En Madrid, dirigió la Biblioteca Nacional, pero lo despidieron porque sus enemigos levantaron sospechas sobre él. La publicación de su colección...

En Estudio de Panic de Alfonso Vallejo, la reconocida profesora y escritora brasileña, Ester Abreu Vieira de Oliveira (Muqui, 1933), realiza un acucioso análisis de esa obra dramática de Alfonso Vallejo, cuya génesis estuvo en la investigación "Lo tragicómico del ser humano en PANIC", que desarrolló...

The perfect balance of fast-paced comedy and poignant drama: Angelo, at the prompting of his equally repressed sister Anna, tells his very traditionally Italian immigrant parents, Maria and Gino, that he is gay. Nino, Angelo’s lover, is betrayed and mortified by Angelo’s coming out – but is not unprepared for his own mother’s melodramatic reaction. Cast: 4 women, 3 men.

The second Theban play written by Sophocles, “Oedipus Rex,” or “Oedipus the King,” is the drama which chronologically begins the Oedipus cycle. After Laius, King of Thebes, learns from an oracle that he is doomed to perish by the hand of his own son, he binds the feet of his newborn child...

François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public....

Intrigue and Love , sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics or Luise Miller  is a five-act drama, written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805). It was his third play and shows how cabals and their intrigue destroy the love between Ferdinand von Walter, a nobleman's...

T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature   The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in...

Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably...

Highlighting the social problem of date rape between friends, You Be the Judge offers a stage play by author A.M. Nesia. Through a female and male character, this drama depicts the reality of what it is like to be preyed upon by a sexual predator. You Be the Judge offers a visual representation of...

The tragic story of Queen Mary Stuart comes to the stage in this compelling period drama focusing on her life, loves, and reign. Perfect for community theatre and educational settings. Includes timeline and bibliography. Run time: 60-80 minutes.

Torquemada, a drama about the Spanish inquisition, is one of the greatest masterpieces of the master poet of the 19th century. The construction of this tragedy is absolutely original and unique: free and full of change as the wildest and loosest and roughest of dramatic structures ever flung together,...

'Oliver Cromwell' was written in 1827, but was not performed until 1956. The reasons were its length of almost 7000 verses and Hugo's gigantic list of characters. The drama tells the story of Oliver Cromwell's internal conflicts in being offered the crown of England. The preface is nowadays considered as one of the manifestos of the Romantic movement.

The drama 'Hernani' tells the story of Doña Sol, the sun of Madrid, who is loved by Don Carlos, king of Spain, by the old duke, Ruy Gomez, and by Hernani, leader of the revolutionists, upon whose head a price is set. Doña Sol loves only Hernani; she receives him secretly at night in the house of...

Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding three new chapters. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of the Bard, revealing the man and his plays for what they really are:...