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Lope de Vega · 181 pages
Con probabilidad la más conocida y trascendente de las obras teatrales de Lope de Vega, por su explicito contenido social y critico, representado en la rebelión unánime de todo un pueblo contra su comendador. Los hechos se desarrollan a partir del intento del tirano comendador de forzar a Laurencia, hija del alcalde. Una venganza "justa" y una frase para la posteridad ("Fuente Ovejuna lo hizo") ha
William Tell
Friedrich Schiller
William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804. The story focuses on the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. - Wikipedia.
The Crucible
Arthur Miller · 152 pages
Antigone
Sophocles · 80 pages
Publisher's description: Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' play has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. This exciting new translation of the Antigone is both extremely faithful to the Greek and poetically striking
King Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespeare · 148 pages
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Spring's Awakening
Frank Wedekind · 84 pages
A tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized by the world around him, and especially by his teachers, shoots himself. The ending seems likely to be the suicide of Moritz's friend, Melchior, but in a confrontation with a mysterious stranger (the famous Masked Man) he finally manages to shed his illusions and face the
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus · 92 pages
An ancient Greek tragedy attributed to Aeschylus. The play follows the sufferings of the Titan Prometheus who has been fastened to a rock by Zeus as punishment for giving the knowledge of fire to mankind.
Antigone
Jean Anouilh · 74 pages
Apre s Sophocle, J. Anouilh reprend le mythe d'Antigone. Fille d'Oedipe et de Jocaste, la jeune Antigone est en re volte contre la loi humaine qui interdit d'enterrer le corps de son fre re Polynice. Pre sente e sous l'Occupation en 1944, cette pie ce met en sce ne l'absolu d'un personnage en re volte face au pouvoir, a l'injustice et a la me diocrite .
A Bright Room Called Day
Tony Kushner · 195 pages
This play follows a group of political activists and artist who struggle to preserve themselves in 1930s Berlin as the Weimar Republic surrenders to fascism.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson · 111 pages
Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.
The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino
Footsteps
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Amadeus
Peter Shaffer · 128 pages
0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture. Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is avai
Caesar and Cleopatra
George Bernard Shaw · 136 pages
Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.
Fiddler on the Roof
Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick · 116 pages
Translations
Brian Friel · 72 pages
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camp, a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers is making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this opera
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Peter Weiss, Richard Peaslee · 130 pages
For the term of his natural life, a drama adapted from M. Clarke's novel
Marcus Andrew H. Clarke · 374 pages
Henry VI: Parts I, II and III
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen · 428 pages
Rhinoceros and Other Plays
Eugene Ionesco · 141 pages
A collection of three modern plays by the master of the absurd and member of the French Academy.
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
Bertolt Brecht · 124 pages