Drama Books

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..

Evening Dress

William Dean Howells

In the short comic play Evening Dress, William Dean Howells' bumbling recurring character Mr. Roberts finds himself in another ridiculous quandary. This time around, a planned evening out on the town ..

Les alegres comares de Windsor

William Shakespeare

Les alegres comares de Windsor is the Catalan language version of The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or..