Drama Books

BRAND- The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 03 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

Brand was written in the summer of 1865, at Ariccia, near Rome. Fifteen months before, Ibsen had left Christiania, a voluntary exile, eager to escape from the narrow Scandinavian world, and burning wi..

EMPEROR AND GALILEAN - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 05 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

Ibsen had been in Rome only two or three months when he wrote to Björnson (September 16, 1864): “I am busied with a long poem, and have in preparation a tragedy, Julianus Apostata, a piece of work whi..

PEER GYNT - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 04 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

The publication of Brand, in March 1866, brought Ibsen fame (in Scandinavia) and relieved him from the immediate pressure of poverty. Two months later the Storthing voted him a yearly “poet-pension” o..

A dramatization of Longfellow's Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Description as nearly as possible to follow description according to the poem. In background, high mountains. In foreground, lower hills, with forest trees and Indian tents in the distance: GITCHE MAN..

THE BEST PLAYS OF THE OLD DRAMATISTS.

Thomas Heywood

The Late Lancashire Witches and the Wise Woman of Hogsdon are comedies of English life, without that element of romantic interest which Heywood usually added to the domestic drama. The plot of the lat..

The Jazz Singer

Samson Raphaelson

American life, in this year 1925, consists essentially of surfaces. You may point out New England communities and say here is depth, and I will answer, true, but New England is dead so far as the Amer..