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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Agamemnon is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up The Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, followed by “The Libation Bearers” and “The Eumenides”. The trilogy a..

Volpone

Ben Jonson

Volpone is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's mos..

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan and Wendy (1911) is the brainchild of Scottish playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie, who wrote the book after the the success of his play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) Be..

The Alchemist

Ben Jonson

The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ..

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary sch..

The Doctor's Dilemma

George Bernard Shaw

The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. It is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of..

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that child..

King Lear

William Shakespeare

Out of all the tragedies king Lear is the very finest the story of a king brought low and the cruelty and ungratefulness of two of his daughters mirrored with the sardonic wit and irony of his court f..