Drama Books

The Duchess of Padua

Oscar Wilde

The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris...

Exiles

James Joyce

Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of "The Dead", the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners. The play was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the A..

The Acorn-Planter

Jack London

The Acorn-Planter is a play by Jack London. In the morning of the world, while his tribe makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man of the Nishina..

Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite

Molière

Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite, first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the g..

No Thoroughfare

Charles Dickens

No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867...

All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost - A Tragedy

John Dryden

All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic drama by John Dryden which is now his best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's pa..

A Man of the People - A Drama of Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Dixon

A Man of the People: A Drama of Abraham Lincoln is written by Thomas Dixon. While the popular conception of Lincoln as the Liberator of the Slave is true historically, there is a deeper view of his li..

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1898 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of..