Drama Books
La Comédie Humaine - Le Père Goriot
Honore de BalzacLe Père Goriot (English: Father Goriot or Old Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequ..
The Return of Peter Grimm
David BelascoThe present Editor has had many opportunities of studying the theatre side of David Belasco. He has been privileged to hear expressed, by this Edison of our stage, diverse opinions about plays and pla..
The McNaughtens
Jean François RegnardSpruce Oh, if I gamble a little it's only to spend the time while you are spending the night in certain black gambling dens. I hear you swearing right up to the door. I swear, too, when luck is agains..
Moral
Ludwig ThomaDr. Ludwig Thoma, perhaps better known to his Bavarian countrymen as Peter Schlemiehl, was born in Oberammergau on January 21, 1867. After graduating from a gymnasium in Munich, he studied at the Scho..
There Are Crimes and Crimes
August StrindbergStrindberg was fifty years old when he wrote "There Are Crimes and Crimes." In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: "The Saga of the Folkungs," "Gustavus Vasa," and ..
The Lucky Man
Monsieur BaronThe Lucky Man is a French comedy drama by Michel Baron.Olivia: Yes, I ought to, Laura. Don't I have an interest in everything that touches you? Do you imagine I can watch with pleasure as people abuse..
When We Dead Awaken
Henrik IbsenFrom Pillars of Society to John Gabriel Borkman, Ibsen's plays had followed each other at regular intervals of two years, save when his indignation over the abuse heaped upon Ghosts reduced to a singl..
The Merry Devill of Edmonton
William ShakespeareThe Merry Devill of Edmonton is a comedy drama believed to have been written by William Shakespeare and is not attributed to the author as it is spurious and doubtful to attribute to the author...