Drama Books

The Electra of Euripides

Euripides

The Electra is a Greek drama based on mythology written by Athens tragedian Euripides and has been translated into English by Murray.Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Cly..

The Clouds

Aristophanes

Athens playwright Aristophanes' comedy play The Clouds is a lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens. The play begins with Strepsiades suddenly sitting up in bed whi..

La Comédie Humaine - Le Père Goriot

Honore de Balzac

Le Père Goriot (English: Father Goriot or Old Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequ..

The Return of Peter Grimm

David Belasco

The present Editor has had many opportunities of studying the theatre side of David Belasco. He has been privileged to hear expressed, by this Edison of our stage, diverse opinions about plays and pla..

The McNaughtens

Jean François Regnard

Spruce Oh, if I gamble a little it's only to spend the time while you are spending the night in certain black gambling dens. I hear you swearing right up to the door. I swear, too, when luck is agains..

Moral

Ludwig Thoma

Dr. Ludwig Thoma, perhaps better known to his Bavarian countrymen as Peter Schlemiehl, was born in Oberammergau on January 21, 1867. After graduating from a gymnasium in Munich, he studied at the Scho..

There Are Crimes and Crimes

August Strindberg

Strindberg was fifty years old when he wrote "There Are Crimes and Crimes." In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: "The Saga of the Folkungs," "Gustavus Vasa," and ..

The Lucky Man

Monsieur Baron

The Lucky Man is a French comedy drama by Michel Baron.Olivia: Yes, I ought to, Laura. Don't I have an interest in everything that touches you? Do you imagine I can watch with pleasure as people abuse..