DailyLit: Drama Books

Wikipedia Tour: Essential Opera

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Get introduced to the world of opera with our Wikipedia Tour of Opera Essentials: From La Bohème to Madame Butterfly, from Mozart to Wagner, we’ve pulled together all of the key composers, styles, ...

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Book Sampler: Shakespeare

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All the world’s a stage, and nowhere is that truer than in this Shakespeare Sampler. The tragedies, the comedies, and the sonnets are all sampled here, allowing you to discover (or rediscover) what ...

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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe

DRAMATIS PERSONAE. THE POPE. CARDINAL OF LORRAIN. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. DUKE OF VANHOLT. FAUSTUS. VALDES, CORNELIUS, FRIENDS TO FAUSTUS. WAGNER, SERVANT TO FAUSTUS. CLOWN. ROBIN. RALPH. VINTNER. HOR ...

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The House of Atreus

The Complete Oresteia
by Aeschylus

in the battles of Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea. trilogy which has come down to us, consisting of "Agamemnon," "Choephorae" (The Libation-Bearers), and the "Eumenides" ...

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The History of Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

This dark retelling of the events of the Trojan War places desperate lovers at the very heart of the conflict. At the start of the play, the Greeks are disillusioned and pessimistic because their hero ...

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The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

by Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert

Scene.-- the Piazzetta, Venice. The Ducal Palace on the right. tying a bouquet of roses. CHORUS OF CONTADINE. Ere your morning bloom has fled. ...

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Trojan Women of Euripides

by Euripides

THE GOD POSEIDON. THE GODDESS PALLAS ATHENA. HECUBA, _Queen of Troy, wife of Priam, mother of Hector and Paris_. CASSANDRA, _daughter of Hecuba, a prophetess_. ANDROMACHE, _wife of Hector, Prince of T ...

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An Enemy of the People

by Henrik Ibsen

Master playwright Henrik Ibsen delivers another groundbreaking message in his 1882 play An Enemy of the People. A small coastal town is full of anticipation for the grand opening of a new set of baths ...

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Nathan the Wise

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Introite nam et heic Dii sunt!"--APUD GELLIUM. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. SALADIN, the Sultan. SITTAH, his Sister. NATHAN, a rich Jew. RECHA, his adopted Daughter. DAYA, a Christian Woman dwelling with the J ...

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Don Carlos

by Friedrich Schiller

DON CARLOS. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. PHILIP THE SECOND, King of Spain. DON CARLOS, Prince, Son of Philip. ALEXANDER FARNESE, Prince of Parma. MARQUIS DE POSA. DUKE OF ALVA. Grandees of Spain: DOMINGO, Confe ...

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