The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late...
English Drama
- Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
A foggy night ... a lonely country house ... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge...
- Author:Etherege, GeorgeSummary:
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
In Wilde’s masterful farce, two aristocratic young Londoners create a great deal of confusion when they independently fabricate intricate double lives in order to escape oppressive social obligations.
- Author:Coburn, D. L.Summary:
The quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. Fonsia is drawn to Weller, but she just can't stop winning at cards, while Weller...
- Author:MILTON, JohnSummary:
Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time, Place and Action. Nevertheless it “never was intended for the stage” and is here declaimed by a single reader....
- Author:SHAKESPEARE, WilliamSummary:
Brings together the most famous and personable pain ever invented for the theatre - Beatrice and Benedick.
- Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
ruel Angelo is left in charge of Vienna when the Duke pretends to leave town. He revives an old law against fornication and sentences Claudio to death for seducing Juliet, Claudio's betrothed. Claudio's sister, Isabella,...
- Author:George Bernard ShawSummary:
- Author:SHAKESPEARE, WilliamSummary:
Richard II is the poet's play, full of great speeches and fine writing, rather than subtle character and keen insight.
- Author:SHAKESPEARE, WilliamSummary:
This dramatised audio version of the play continues the description of the reign of Henry IV up to his death and the acceptance of the throne by Prince Hal.
- Author:SHAKESPEARE, WilliamSummary:
Coriolanus is a most powerful but uncomfortable play. Wherein the quality of mercy is subdued by impartial justice.
- Author:SHAKESPEARE, WilliamSummary:
On the surface, an idyllic romance, full of happy love and optimistic philosophy of goodness...but perhaps Shakespeare had a private wink for the more sophisticated.
- Author:SHAKESPEARE, WilliamSummary:
Shakespeare was fascinated but not deceived by `the laughing queen that caught the world's great hands' for the theme of the tragedy is the downfall of the triple pillar of the world (Antony) through his love for her.
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in the present, and takes place over the...
- Author:SHAKESPEARE, WilliamSummary:
The main theme comes from a tale in Boccaccio's `Decameron'; a complex plot at the conclusion of which all does indeed end well.