18 books like Elizabethan Drama

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Plays (37) William Shakespeare · 1768 · ★ 4.0 · 828p · ≈ 27h · Demanding Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts with this book. Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts

Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets) William Shakespeare · 1838 · 1353p · ≈ 45h · Demanding Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts with this book. Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts

Works (46) William Shakespeare · 1905 · 3419p · ≈ 113h · Challenging Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts with this book. Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts

Plays (36) William Shakespeare · 1623 · ★ 3.6 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Demanding Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts with this book. Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Shipwrecks, Performing Arts

The Tempest William Shakespeare · 1611 · ★ 3.8 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Challenging The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his… Shares English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents

Cymbeline William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.6 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Cymbeline, King of Britain is one of the best-known works of William Shakespeare. It is a romantic play interwoven with war and tragedy. It revolves around Cymbeline and his daughter, Imogen. Imogen does not abide by her father's wishes and marries a lowborn gentleman, Posthumous. After their marriage, Posthumous is banished from Britain, and Imogen is held as a prisoner in the palace. As the… Shares Tragicomedy, English drama, Kings and rulers, Drama

Pericles William Shakespeare · 1609 · ★ 3.5 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a seperate introduction to Pericles, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. Shares Tragicomedy, Princes, English drama, Drama

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1730 · ★ 3.6 · 2364p · ≈ 78h · Demanding Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama with this book. Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama

Henry IV, Part 2 William Shakespeare · 1600 · ★ 3.8 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Summer festival, June 27th to September 10th, 1932. "The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, containing his death, and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth," by William Shakespeare. The prologue will be spoken by Eugene Wellesley and the epilogue by Hilda Coxhead. Shares Historical drama, English drama, Kings and rulers, Drama

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares Drama

Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding Francis Beaumont · 1634 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Drama with this book.

Sophokles Sophocles · 1851 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Tragedy, Drama with this book.

The tragedies of Sophocles Sophocles · 1729 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Preface signed: Theodore Alois Buckley. Shares Tragedy, Drama

Candida George Bernard Shaw · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Moderate The Reverend James Mavor Morell, a respectable socialist clergyman, spends his days giving lectures and sermons while his wife, Candida, sees to his comfortable London home. That home is disrupted by the arrival of the poet Eugene Marchbanks, who is in love with Candida and determined to rescue her from what he sees as an unromantic life. Shaw wrote Candida as a reaction to Henrik Ibsen’s social… Shares English drama, Drama

Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1797 · 968p · ≈ 32h · Demanding Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama with this book. Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama

Henry VI, Part 1 William Shakespeare · 1735 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Challenging King Henry V has suddenly died, and the kingdom is in chaos. In England, noblemen are fighting amongst themselves. Loyalties are divided into two factions: the White Roses (York) and the Red Roses (Lancaster). The Duke of Gloucester, Henry VI’s Protector, is accused by Cardinal Beaufort of seizing the throne for himself. Meanwhile in France, the Dauphin Charles has been crowned the new king.… Shares Historical drama, Drama

Schweizerische Robinson Johann David Wyss · 1828 · ★ 3.3 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A Swiss family is shipwrecked on a tropical island, and must survive with what they can salvage from their ship, as well as the natural bounty of the island. The father leads his four sons on a series of adventures that teach important lessons in moral values, husbandry and natural history. Shares Shipwrecks, Survival after airplane accidents, Classics

The misfortunes of Arthur Thomas Hughes · 1900 · ★ 3.7 · 49p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares English drama, Drama with this book.

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