Drama Books

The Stranger - A Drama, in Five Acts

August von Kotzebue

There seems to be required by a number of well meaning persons of the present day a degree of moral perfection in a play, which few literary works attain; and in which sermons, and other holy producti..

The Sentimentalists

George Meredith

The Sentimentalists is a comedy drama written by George Meredith. One husband! The woman consenting to marriage takes but one. For her there is no widowhood. That punctuation of the sentence called de..

Complete Plays of John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy

First Series: The Silver Box -- Joy -- StrifeSecond Series: The Eldest Son -- The Little Dream -- JusticeThird Series: The Fugitive -- The Pigeon -- The MobFourth Series: A Bit O' Love -- The Foundati..

Betsy Baker!

John Maddison Morton

You can’t deny it. Look at the Railroads—oblige me by looking at the Railroads, with their gigantic viaducts, their stupendous aqueducts—look at the Electric Telegraph over the Straits of Menai—look a..

Seeking His Fortune, and Other Dialogues

Jr. Horatio Alger

Nearly all the dialogues in the present collection were originally contributed to a juvenile magazine in New York. Many of them have been used at exhibitions in different parts of the country, and met..

The Follies of a Day

Thomas Holcroft

Readers are divided into two Classes; the one will allow an Author much more than he merits, and the other much less; but the principal Excellencies of The Follies of a Day are so known to be another’..

The Grand Cham's Diamond - A Play in One Act

Allan Monkhouse

The Grand Cham's Diamond: A Play in One Act by Allan Monkhouse...

Lexington

Sidney Howard

The play demands an almost continual musical accompaniment. This should be composed upon the foundation of period songs, particularly those which are indicated in the text. Also, the various speeches ..