wired - Plays & Playwrights 3

Contents The Widow Ellis and her son Willie ........ 9 The Magic Lamp 34 Our Robins 40 Old Rover .53 The Chain of Love 69 Mill-hill 78 Mill-hill (Part Second) ' 95 The Bantem 137 ……続きを見る

This play distills the essence of Congreve into one stageworthy play. William Congreve wrote four comedies: The Way of the World is his acknowledged masterpiece; Love for Love is less brilliant but ……続きを見る

Dark chocolate has many health benefits, but how about dark humor? And speaking of health benefits, American workers are getting the shaft in terms of pay and health insurance. This dark little come……続きを見る

Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (A Midsummer Night's Dream) est une comédie de William Shakespeare écrite entre 1594 et 1595. La première inscription de la pièce au registre des Libraires date du 8 octobr……続きを見る

Blood and Revenge-- Titus Andronicus is by far Shakespeare's most violent play. Set in the later days of the Roman empire it follows a fictional succession to the throne. The play follows Titus, a g……続きを見る

Vengeance and War-- Rome is in turmoil, there is rioting in the streets and open warfare between the varying ruling factions. Coriolanus would bring peace and order to Rome, but will Rome let him? Y……続きを見る

Betrayal and Honor-- Fearing that Caesar means to end the Roman republic and make himself the emperor, Brutus, Caesar's closest friend, allows himself to be caught up in a plot to kill Caesar. Once ……続きを見る

Nature or Nurture-- The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of twins accidently separated and mixed at birth. When the four meet, a series of wild mishaps are set into motion by mistaken id……続きを見る

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award. Adapt……続きを見る

In the 1930’s, men carved out their realm on parcels of land on the Alberta frontier. With their wives and families, they coped with poverty, hard work and loneliness. After her mother’s death, Evel……続きを見る

One basic problem facing most rapidly developing countries is the need to preserve good traditions, and at the same time graft upon them. That is why in Africa, for example, there are several cultur……続きを見る

A story is told of a child who confronted her bed wetting mother, after the young girl got fed up with her mother using her as an excuse while airing her (mother’s) wet beddings. The mother had made……続きを見る

Murder, Mayhem, and Madness-- Collected here are five of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear. These are the plays that made Shakespeare……続きを見る

In The Town Where All Things Are Possible, the hopes of an unusual sea-side community rest on the weary shoulders of a love-sick widower. Originally published as a serial on literatipressok.com, thi……続きを見る

Japlo's loving family life is suddenly torn apart by a band of violent rebels in Liberia. Blinded, and homeless, she depends on her small daughter, as they both courageously run for their lives. Acr……続きを見る

Here’s the situation: Neighbour A: Constantly borrows things. Doesn’t return them. Plays loud music. Is uncaring. Uses your electricity. Gives you no peace. Neighbour B: Is always angry with you.……続きを見る

Written in 1883, set in Sixteenth century Italy The Duchess of Padua is a play written by Oscar Wilde. Featuring a self-denying duchess, the play presents deep emotions such as love, revenge, and ha……続きを見る

**The celebrated author of Shadowlands tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again. “A finely p……続きを見る

John Griffith "Jack" London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with his mother Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Cha……続きを見る

Honor and Shame -- One of Shakespeare's very best plays. This hilarious romp is both engaging and entertaining. Hero is engaged to marry Claudio, but Don John plots to make Hero look unfaithful. Cla……続きを見る

Mark and Holly James feel their marriage has endured the worst. They've overcome infidelity and the looming question of their daughter's paternity. Life is almost back to normal until jealousy rears……続きを見る

Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impac……続きを見る

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identit……続きを見る

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play d……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.‘ The Man in the Iron Mask sees D’Artagnan, Athos, Portho……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Novellen + Kurzgeschichten + Dramen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Anton Pawlowitsch……続きを見る

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 q……続きを見る

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit……続きを見る

“Here lies she whom her husband's kindness killed” This is the epitaph, in golden letters, Master John Frankford proposes for the tomb of his wife, Anne, who has just starved herself to death. Frank……続きを見る

One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's plays. Treating political intrigue, financial f……続きを見る