Drama Books

Othello

William Shakespeare

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-marri..

Woyzeck

Georg Büchner

Woyzeck is a drama written by Georg Büchner, a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of ..

A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

Oscar Wilde

Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth of..

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

George Bernard Shaw

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short comedy by George Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending to meet the "Dark Lady", accidentally encounters Queen Elizabeth I and attempts to pe..

Back to Methuselah - A Metabiological Pentateuch

George Bernard Shaw

Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. The five plays are:In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden); The Gospel..

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranea..

Emilia Galotti

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Emilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick. The work is a classic example of German bürgerliches Trauerspiel. Other works in this c..

How He Lied to Her Husband

George Bernard Shaw

How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904.G..