Drama Books

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 ..

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Karel Čapek

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue.Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the is..

The Captivi and the Mostellaria

Titus Maccius Plautus

The Captivi and the Mostellaria is a Latin comedy drama translated into English by Titus Maccius Plautus, a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works..

Nero

Stephen Phillips

Nero is a historical fiction drama penned by Stephen Phillips. Nero was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius and became Claudius' ..

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

George Chapman

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois is a tragedy drama written by George Chapman, an English dramatist, translator, and poet.In this volume an attempt is made for the first time to edit B..

The New York Idea

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

The New York Idea, Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911..

The Doctor's Dilemma - Preface on Doctors

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..