Drama Books

Rachel - A Play in Three Acts

Angelina Weld Grimké

Before the sewing-machine, Mrs. Loving is seated. She looks worried. She is sewing swiftly and deftly by hand upon a waist in her lap. It is a white, beautiful thing and she sews upon it delicately. I..

Waiting for an Omnibus in the Lowther Arcade on a Rainy Day

John Maddison Morton

Isn’t it a remarkable fact, that people no sooner get under cover out of the rain than they immediately congregate in a dense mass to prevent other people getting under cover out of the rain—I don’t k..

Borgia - A Period Play

An apartment of the Vatican: at the further end the door of the Treasury by which the Lord Cardinal Casanova is seated. The Lord Alexander VI. and an Envoy from Naples. The Pope is seated; from time t..

Ismael; an oriental tale. With other poems

Edward George Lytton Bulwer

Most of the larger Poems in the Collection express in easy language, and at the same time with all the graces of genuine poetry, every sentiment fitted to the occasion on which they were written. Of t..

The Escape

William Wells Brown

This play was written for my own amusement, and not with the remotest thought that it would ever be seen by the public eye. I read it privately, however, to a circle of my friends, and through them wa..

Two Slatterns and a King - A Moral Interlude

Edna St. Vincent Millay

No amateur or professional use permitted of “Two Slatterns and a King” without written authorization first obtained from Stewart Kidd Company, 121 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati, O., to whom all applic..

The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 01

Henrik Ibsen

The eleven volumes of this edition contain all, save one, of the dramas which Henrik Ibsen himself admitted to the canon of his works. The one exception is his earliest, and very immature, tragedy, Ca..

The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 02 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

Ibsen himself has told us, in his preface to the second edition of The Feast at Solhoug, how the reading of the Icelandic family-sagas suggested to him, in germ, the theme of The Vikings at Helgeland...