Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Published and premiered at London's Haymarket Theatre in 1893, Oscar Wilde's play A Woman of No Importance focuses on the attitudes of English high society. It further elicits the problems faced by wo...
Author: Madison, D. Soyini Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-d...
Author: Bradley, Lynne Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exploring whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares adaptations of King Lea...
Author: James Chalmers Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adventures in New Guinea was published in 1886 is a narrative about missionary work done on the island. The narrative discusses the exploration of the area, the missionary work and the role New Guinea...
Author: Goldhill, Simon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival and the social and po...
Author: Meyer,Jack Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The handsome Alcibiades was a ward of Pericles, favorite student of Socrates, and also the central player in the demise of the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War.
Author: BARBER, STANLEY Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There is no other book, past or present, that unapologetically explores the depth of the emotional and erotic relationship between Alexander the Great and his lover of 20 years, Hephastian Amyntor, a ...
Author: Lewis Carroll Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alice is a young girl who has numerous adventures after sliding down a rabbit hole. She meets a magical rabbit, has tea with a Mad Hatter and knows a cat only by his face. The Queen of Hearts is her ...
Author: John Dryden Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historica...
Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat class...
Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat class...
Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Sparklesoup Studios, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sparklesoup brings you Shakespeare's classics. This version is printable so you can mark up your script and easy-to-download with links to interesting facts and sites.
Author: Haggard, H. Rider Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Henry Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set is exotic places. His writings are sympathetic to the natives. He often portrayed Africans as heroic in his storie...
Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG --------------------- Enter BER...
Author: Meeker, Frances P. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Pat Meeker gave you poems which were insights of reality. Along the Road to Podunk adds those insights to the journey and the destination. The characters in this drama reveal the varied and intriguing...
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: Moliere Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Amphitryon was played for the first time in Paris, at the Theatre du Palais-Royal, January 13, 1668. It was successfully received, holding the boards until the 18th of March, when Easter intervened. A...
Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882 as a response to the public outrage over his play Ghosts. Part comedy, part serious drama, the play looks at Dr. Thomas Stockmann...
Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882 as a response to the public outrage over his play Ghosts. Part comedy, part serious drama, the play looks at Dr. Thomas Stockmann...
Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ibsen, considered to be the father of modern drama, was a Norwegian playwright. He is responsible for "realistic drama". During the Victorian era Ibsen's writings were considered scandalous. In An Ene...
Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: (SCENE. - DR. STOCKMANN'S sitting-room. It is evening. The room is plainly but neatly appointed and furnished. In the right-hand wall are two doors; the farther leads out to the hall, the nearer to th...
Author: Russell, James Publisher: James Russell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Eleven ten-minute comedy stage plays. Extremely funny, extraordinary low budget with common household props. Mild adult dialog with no offensive language. Each play only costs $3.17 each ($3.177 x ...
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption. The action takes place over three days in London, and it questions ideas of public and private honor. It is a ...
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption. The action takes place over three days in London, and it questions ideas of public and private honor. It is a ...
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Published in 1899, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde was first presented on stage in 1895. It is a social comedy that satirizes the hypocritical attitudes of people. Revolving around corruption and blac...
Author: James, Henry Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A masterful storyteller explores drama, flirtations, tragedy and eventual realization of true feelings in this wonderful tale. Henry James (1843 - 1916) was one of the leaders in the school of realis...
Author: Scodel, Ruth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a brief and accessible introduction to Greek tragedy for students and general readers alike. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply intere...
Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house. A braid of her hair had falle...
Author: George, Bernard Shaw Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasin...
Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly. A jungle path. A lion's roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from ...
Author: Euripides Publisher: Sparklesoup Studios, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sparklesoup brings you Euripide's classic drama. This version is printable so you can mark up your script and easy-to-download with links to interesting facts and sites.
Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Anna Christie is a play in four acts, which won O'Neill the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Anna makes contact with the father she has not seen since her infancy, and he takes her on board his coal barg...
Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Anna Christie is a play in four acts, which won O'Neill the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Anna makes contact with the father she has not seen since her infancy, and he takes her on board his coal barg...
Description: Written around 442 BC, Antigone is one of the tragedies of the Sophocles's Oedipus Trilogy. Oedipus's family is trapped by fate and doomed for three generations. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has de...
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: Guiher, James M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: THE APHRODITE OF MELOS (VENUS DE MILO), THE LARGE MARBLE STATUE OF THE GODDESS OF LOVE, CARVED IN THE 1ST OR 2ND CENTURY B.C., NOW IN THE LOUVRE, HAS BEEN THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD SINCE SHE ...
Author: Arden, John Publisher: Methuen Drama Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Arden is to me a writer a bit like Shakespeare in approach, in that the writing not only has to convey...the dialogue of characters speaking together, but also has to carry the sense of the social env...
Author: Sidwell, Keith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a new interpretation of the nature of Old Comedy and its place at the heart of Athenian democratic politics. Professor Sidwell argues that Aristophanes and his rivals belonged to op...
Author: N/A Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume is an essential reading for all who love literature, especially for those who would like to familiar themselves with the essence of the Armenian literature. Readers familiar with the Armen...
Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the ...
Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the ...
Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: To the irreverent - and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification? - there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward Bernard Shaw. H...
