Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nora Helmer, the naive and pretty wife of Torvald, has no opinions or talents of her own in male-dominated 19th-Century Norwegian society. Their life is comfortable and respectable, and their ideals a...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well...
Author: Rosier, Joseph-Bernard / de Leuwen, Adolphe Publisher: Borgo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this comic opera set in England, Falstaff is a friend and admirer of playwright William Shakespeare--and the same lecherous fellow we saw in Shakespeare's Henry IV. One summer night, Queen Elizabet...
Author: Tasso, Torquato Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tasso's masterpiece "Aminta" is perhaps the most famous pastoral play ever. It is also the work that launched the reputation of the author of the famed Italian epic poem of the First Crusade, "Gerusal...
Author: Whyman, Rose Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this major playwright. Rose Whyman provides an insightful assessment of Chekhov's life and work and places his innovative t...
Author: Graver, Lawrence Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot, which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and influential p...
Author: Rostand, Edmond Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This French play written entirely in verse is based on the life of Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano is known for being a poet, musician and a soldier with skill at dueling. He is in love with Roxane, but hi...
Author: Rostand, Edmond Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Very loosely based on the life of a French duelist and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac is a play in verse that tells the tale of soldier who is gifted with every imaginable positive attribute -- except...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centrepiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has ...
Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote to the Swedish poet, Count Carl Soilsky: "Our intention has all along been to spend the summer in the Tyrol again. But circumstances are against our doing s...
Author: Plunka, Gene A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka'...
Author: Checkov,Anton Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Chekhov was a Russian who wrote short stories and plays. Chekhov was a doctor during most of his life. He was said to say, "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress".
Author: Chekhov, Anton Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The garden of IVANOFF'S country place. On the left is a terrace and the facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad semicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left...
Author: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate. A king imprisons his son who, it is prophesied, will destroy the kingdom. The people believe the son to be dead, but when he is a grown man the king...
Author: London, Rudi Publisher: Amazing Road Format: Adobe PDF
Description: P-51 Pilot Alex Highland was the only Norwegian in the famous 332nd Fighter Group... but that was all right with him. Now, the truth must be told... he wasn't really born in Norway, but his grandmothe...
Description: P-51 Pilot Alex Highland was the only Norwegian in the famous 332nd Fighter Group... but that was all right with him. Now, the truth must be told... he wasn't really born in Norway, but his grandmothe...
Author: Cilinca, Victor Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: First performed in Galati, Romania, in 1996, Victor Cilinca's Polonius is a play of political machination, social aspiration, treachery, and self-deception, set during the events of Hamlet. The play's...
Author: Corneille, Pierre Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This seventeenth-century drama in five acts was inspired by the tale of Saint Polyeuctus (rendered as 'Polyeucte' in French), a Roman convert to the faith who was martyred in 259 A.D. However, althoug...
Author: de Vigny, Alfred Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As with many of his French contemporaries, Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) enjoyed the challenge of reworking William Shakespeare's classic plays for a modern audience. "Shylock" (1830) eliminates many of...
Author: Pirandello, Luigi Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Luigi Pirandello [28 June 1867 - 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of t...
Author: Crabbe, George Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: George Crabbe was an English naturalist and poet. His first major work, a poem entitled "Inebriety", was self-published in 1775. He completed medical training and then moved with his wife to London....
Author: Féval, Paul Publisher: Borgo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The French are keeping the son of the King of Poland in protective custody. Czar Peter the Great, who covets Poland, sends agents to France to kill the heir, but the Polish resistance wants Prince Sta...
Author: Copeau, Jacques / Croue, Jean / Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Adapted from the riveting novel of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov was the first great theatrical success of the well-known French playwright, Jacques Copeau (1879-1949). Cop...
Author: Palescandolo, Frank Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ferdinando Russo, the premier dialect poet of Naples, invites Roger Morris, an American jounralist with Pulitzer, to the annual song festival at Piedigrotta. Morris arrives from Capri where he has res...
Author: Dumas, Alexandre / Morlock, Frank J. Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of the nineteenth century. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also converted many of his fictions into riveting dramas, dividing his classi...
Author: Dumas, Alexandre / Morlock, Frank J. Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This dramatization of the classic novel is the first of four parts. In 1815 Napoleon has fled to Elba, and the Bourbons have been restored to the French throne. Young Edmond Dantes is First Mate and A...
Author: Dumas, Alexandre / Morlock, Frank J. Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of all time. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also adapted his novel into four riveting plays. Part Three: The Rise of Monte Cristo is se...
Author: Dumas, Alexandre / Morlock, Frank J. Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, has been converted by the author into a series of four plays. In PART TWO, Edmond Dantes has escaped from the dreaded priso...
Author: Anicet-Bourgeois, Auguste / Feval, Paul Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Henri de Lagardere, the best swordsman in France, suddenly finds himself duty-bound to protect the baby female heir of a murdered friend--a girl who matures into a beautiful woman who will one day inh...
Author: Chekhov, Anton Publisher: Digireads.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Swan Song, Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, On the High Road, The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear, A Tragedian in Spite of Himself, The Aniversary, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard
Author: Peterson, Doug Publisher: Kingstone Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Cold War, Cold Case How Do You Complete a 600-Million-Piece Puzzle And Solve Two Murders? The year is 1989, and the Berlin Wall is coming down. The East German secret police, the Stasi, are shredding ...
Author: Peterson, Doug Publisher: Kingstone Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cold War, Cold Case How Do You Complete a 600-Million-Piece Puzzle And Solve Two Murders? The year is 1989, and the Berlin Wall is coming down. The East German secret police, the Stasi, are shredding ...
Author: Chekhov, Anton Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The highroad was dry, a lovely April sun was shining warmly, but the snow was still lying in the ditches and in the woods. Winter, dark, long, and spiteful, was hardly over; spring had come all of a s...
Author: Chekhov, Anton Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of trees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in the depths of the park. The avenue is obstructed by a rough stage...
Author: Chekhov, Anton Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of trees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in the depths of the park. The avenue is obstructed by a rough stage...
Author: Dumas, Alexandre Publisher: Borgo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This classic tale of political intrigue, murder, romance, and high drama is set during the weak reign of King Louis XIII of France. Cardinal Richelieu is gathering the reins of power into his cold, ru...
Author: Lotman, Chester Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Persuasively argues for including the original, 1825 version of the play Boris Godunov (later eclipsed by the “politically correct” edition) in the canon of Pushkin’s works. Includes the 1825 Russi...
Author: Chekhov, Anton Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A country house on a terrace. In front of it a garden. In an avenue of trees, under an old poplar, stands a table set for tea, with a samovar, etc. Some benches and chairs stand near the table. On one...
Author: Dumas, Alexandre Publisher: Borgo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Set in 1634 France, this play tells the story of demonic possession and religious prosecution. Father Urbain Grandier is accused of witchcraft and promiscuous behavior against the nuns. Grandier appea...
Author: Wladimir, Bienstock, J. / Martel, Charles Publisher: Borgo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, War and Peace tells the story of Count Pierre Bezhoukov, as he's buffeted by the fortunes of war, love, and a cruel f...
