Drama Books

The Two Noble Kinsmen

William Shakespeare

The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, first published in 1634. Set in ancient Greece during a war between Athens and Thebes, the narrativ..

Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (Play)

Octave Feuillet

Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre is a French drama writen by Octave Feuillet, a French novelist and dramatist...

Miss Sara Sampson

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Miss Sara Sampson is a play by the Enlightenment philosopher, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Written in 1755 while the author was living in Potsdam, it is seen by many scholars to be one of the first bourg..

Aili

Matti Kurikka

Aili is a Finnish drama by Matti Kurikka, a Finnish journalist, theosophist, and utopian socialist. Kurikka was the editor of the Työmies newspaper from 1897–1899. In 1908 Kurikka purchased the Wiipur..

The Hairy Ape

Eugene O'Neill

The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It is about a beastly, unthinking laborer known as Yank, the protagonist of the play, as he searches for a sense of be..

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

George Bernard Shaw

Captain Brassbound's Conversion is a play by G. Bernard Shaw. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans. The first American production of the play starred Ellen Terry in 1907..

The Death of Balder

Johannes Ewald

The Death of Balder is Danish drama -- Translatedin to English by Johannes Ewald. Johannes Ewald was a Danish national dramatist and poet. The lyrics of a song from one of his plays are used for one o..

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

George Bernard Shaw

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress: A Revolutionary Romancelet is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1917. The play is obviously influenced by the Russian Revolution that year. It takes ..