Drama

Film Technique And Film Acting - The Cinema Writings Of V.I. Pudovkin

by V. I. Pudovkin

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

The Plays of Aristophanes, Volume One

by Aristophanes

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

The Seagull

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov's four full-length plays. It explores the romantic and artistic tension in the relationships between a young woman, a fading older lady, her playwright son and a popular...

Household Gods

by Aleister Crowley

Dubbed "The Wickedest Man In the World", Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings and interests, but in a seemingly contradictory and bewildering list he also dabbled as a poet, mountaineer, chess...

Salome

by Oscar Wilde

Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome. Salome dances the Dance of the Seven Veils so well that she receives a boon from her stepfather Herod Antipas. Much to...

King Richard III

by William Shakespeare

Richard III belongs to Shakespeare's folio of King Richard plays, and is the longest of his plays after Hamlet. It is classified variously as a tragedy and a history, showing the reign of Richard III in an unflattering...

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

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 classification...

Inheritance

by Mike Packer

Harry wants to leave an Inheritance for his sons. So, going against life-long political convictions, he joins the property-owning class. Then the economic crisis hits. A timely, comic and poignant exploration...

Beautiful Burnout

by Bryony Lavery

Keep your guard up. Protect yourself at all times. Protect your boy. Keep him safe. Keep him close. That is all that matters. Cameron is going places. He’s going to see lights. He’s going to make the world...

My Romantic History

by D. C. Jackson

Do you know how they get animals to breed in captivity? They put them in the same cage. One moment you’re colleagues, and then Friday night drinks, a quick grope, and you’re an item. When Tom and Amy get...

Polyeucte

by Pierre Corneille

This seventeenth-century drama in five acts was inspired by the tale of Saint Polyeuctus (rendered as 'Polyeucte' in French), a Roman convert to the faith who was martyred in 259 A.D. However, although an imaginatively...

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

Very loosely based on the life of a French duelist and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac is a play in verse that tells the tale of soldier who is gifted with every imaginable positive attribute -- except that of...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

The newly revised signet classic Shakespeare series, these editions are the works of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars. Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's...

Equus

by Peter Shaffer

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Boston Marriage

by David Mamet

One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.

Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together...

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance

by Adam Bertocci

What if . . .  William Shakespeare had written The Big Lebowski?

The Dude has met the Bard—and he doth abide.

Join “The Knave” and Sir Walter on a wild tale of mistaken identity, kidnapping, bowling,...

The Tudors: It's Good to Be King

by Michael Hirst

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Don't Fill Up on the Antipasto: Tony Danza's Father-Son Cookbook

by Tony Danza, Marc Danza & Jennifer Carrillo

In the Danza family, the men did most of the cooking -- great Italian-American food that has remained the favorite cuisine in American households for more than a century.

Now, actor, television personality,...

Defending the Damned

by Kevin Davis

Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten...

Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men

by Scott Wolven

Once or twice a decade, an unknown short-story writer blazes onto the literary scene with work that is thrilling and new. Scott Wolven is such a talent, and his raw, blistering tales of hard-bitten convicts,...