Drama History category: 1664 books

Cover of Liars, Thieves and Other Sinners on the Bench
by Jo Carson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009

“Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unfl inching honesty.”—Publishers Weekly, on the work of Jo Carson “She is a quintessential community artist with a true ear for the way people talk and what they really mean to say. Her work has inspired innumerable young artists to take...
Cover of Boston Marriage
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010

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 on the fringes of society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man,...
Cover of My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition)
by Athol Fugard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993

The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher.
Cover of Complete Works of Meta Davis Cumberbatch
by Peter Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Mrs. Cumberbatch was a classical pianist, writer, composer, actress, and teacher who had been born in Trinidad and Tobago to Vincentian parents. She studied medicine in Britain before she transferred to the Royal Academy of Music to train as a concert pianist, and she played on the stages of Wigmore...
Cover of Vivir loco y morir más
by José Zorrilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Vivir loco y morir más es la primera obra teatral de Zorrilla, escrita cuando apenas tenía veinte años. Tuvo notorio éxito entre la crítica y el público. Es una obra romántica que relata las penurias de unos jóvenes apasionados y ávidos de vivir con intensidad. El artista entregado y hastiado...
Cover of Mudarse por mejorarse
by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Cover of La manganilla de Melilla
by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

En La manganilla de Melilla cristianos y musulmanes «conviven» en el Norte de África. Esta obra relata un episodio sucedido en la ciudad española de Melilla en el siglo XVII. Un lider morisco convence a los suyos de que tiene poderes sobrenaturales para adormecer a los cristianos defensores del...
Cover of Langbourne's Empire
by Alan P Landau
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017

Based on a true story. (Part 3 of the Langbourne Trilogy.) It is 1894 in the remote settlement of Bulawayo, in what later became Southern Rhodesia. Recent immigrants from Ireland, Morris and David Langbourne, throw body and soul into rebuilding their previously devastated business. Between Morris’...
Cover of The Mill
by Daryl Cloran, Matthew MacFadzean, Hannah Moscovitch
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

It’s 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill threatens to unearth its secret. In The Huron Bride it is 1834 and Hazel Sheehan has braved the perilous journey...
Cover of A buen juez mejor testigo
by José Zorrilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

A buen juez mejor testigo empieza en las afueras de Toledo. Ante un Cristo enclavado en un madero, la bella Inés de Vargas hace jurar a Diego Martínez, que a su vuelta de Flandes, la desposará. Pasan tres años y Diego no vuelve. Regresan varios hombres de Flandes, y entre ellos Inés cree avistar...
Cover of Álbum de un loco
by José Zorrilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Álbum de un loco es un itinerario por una serie de temas que interesan a Zorrilla y que son expuestos a largo del libro con un orden secreto:La raza humanaLos egipciosLos feniciosGreciaRomaMonasteriosArabiaLa lengua árabeMahomaEstos se intercalan con poemas dedicados a mujeres de sociedad o, incluso,...
Cover of Apoteosis de don Pedro Calderón de la Barca
by José Zorrilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

La Apoteosis de don Pedro... es una apología a la hispanidad y al orgullo herido de un imperio que dio sus últimos estertores en el siglo XIX. El texto resulta interesante, incluso desde su idea épica de una estructura nacional, y merece un análisis más centrado en lo político que en la noción...
Cover of Cada cual con su razón
by José Zorrilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

José Zorrilla (Valladolid, 1817-Madrid, 1893). España.Tras estudiar en el Seminario de Nobles de Madrid, fue a las universidades de Toledo y Valladolid a estudiar leyes y poco después abandonó los estudios y se fue a Madrid. Las penurias económicas le hicieron a vender a perpetuidad los derechos...
Cover of Don Juan Tenorio
by José Zorrilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

En Don Juan Tenorio José Zorrilla recogió toda la tradición aderezándola con elementos religiosos y románticos. Consigue hacer de su personaje un arquetipo humano cuyas características difícilmente pueden ser imitables sin caer en la versión o el plagio. Don Juan Tenorio se convierte en referencia...
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