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Cover of Plays (37)

Plays (37) William Shakespeare · 1768 · ★ 4.0 · 828p · ≈ 27h · Demanding Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents

Cover of Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets)

Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets) William Shakespeare · 1838 · 1353p · ≈ 45h · Demanding Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents

Cover of Works (46)

Works (46) William Shakespeare · 1905 · 3419p · ≈ 113h · Challenging Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents

Cover of Elizabethan Drama

Elizabethan Drama Christopher Marlowe · 1910 · 466p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents

Cover of Plays (36)

Plays (36) William Shakespeare · 1623 · ★ 3.6 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Demanding Shares: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Tragicomedy, Performing Arts, Survival after airplane accidents

Cover of Love for Love

Love for Love William Congreve · 1695 · ★ 3.3 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to give in to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances of his bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine's own chances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. To… Shares: Play, English drama, Drama

Cover of Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding

Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding Francis Beaumont · 1634 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, Literary Criticism, Drama

Cover of Cymbeline

Cymbeline William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.6 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Demanding 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, Drama

Cover of The Transatlantic Zombie

The Transatlantic Zombie Sarah J. Lauro · 2015 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told, explaining how the myth’s migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade, and reveals the real-world import of… Shares: Performing Arts, Literary Criticism

Cover of Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets] William Shakespeare · 1730 · ★ 3.5 · 2364p · ≈ 78h · Demanding Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama

Cover of Pericles

Pericles William Shakespeare · 1609 · ★ 3.5 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Demanding 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, English drama, Drama

Cover of Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore Luigi Pirandello · 1900 · ★ 3.8 · 82p · ≈ 2h · Challenging On the stage, a rehearsal is in progress when actors and director are interrupted by six mysterious figures who demand to be put into a play. Shares: Teatro, English drama, Drama

Cover of Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]

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

Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee · 1962 · ★ 3.4 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in… Shares: Play, English drama, Drama

Cover of A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller · 1955 · ★ 3.7 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Moderate In A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller explores the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate. Eddie Carbone is a Brooklyn longshoreman, a hard-working man whose life has been soothingly predictable. He hasn't counted on the arrival of two of his wife's relatives, illegal immigrants from Italy; nor has he recognized his true feelings for his beautiful niece,… Shares: Play, English drama, Drama

Cover of Salomé

Salomé Oscar Wilde · 1893 · ★ 3.7 · 65p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a… Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, Drama

Cover of Plays (43)

Plays (43) William Shakespeare · 1663 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Demanding Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama Shares: Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama

Cover of Candida

Candida George Bernard Shaw · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Challenging 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

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