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Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Uncle Vanya

Originally published in 1898 and performed for the first time in Moscow in 1899, “Uncle Vanya” is widely considered one of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s most important dramas. It is the tale of the visit of Serebryakov, a retired professor and his new, young wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that had belonged to Serebyrakov’s late first wife and that supports the couple in their urban lifestyle. The estate is run by Serebryakov’s adult unmarried daughter, Sonia, and her Uncle Vanya, brother...

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Anton Chekhov

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Karel Čapek

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

We have Czech writer Karel Čapek to thank for the invention of the word robot and generally for the introduction of the idea of artificial intelligence to the world of literature. His play, «R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)» was first performed in 1921 and was an instant success. While the «robots» of the play could be more accurately described as cyborgs, Čapek's influence on the science fiction genre with this play would be profound. «R.U.R.» describes a future where robots have...

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Karel Čapek

Игра любви и случая

Пьер Мариво

Игра любви и случая

« Сильвия. Повторяю: с какой стати вмешиваться в чужие дела? Зачем говорить за меня о моих чувствах? Лизетта. Да ведь я думала, что в этом случае чувства у вас такие же, как и у всех. Батюшка ваш спрашивает меня, склонны ли вы к замужеству, будете ли вы рады, если он выдаст вас замуж. Я отвечаю: «Да». Это вышло как-то само собою. Кроме вас, на всем свете, верно, не найдется девушки, которой это «да» оказалось бы не по душе. Тут «нет» прямо-таки противоестественно…»

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Пьер Мариво

The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

George Chapman

The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

George Chapman's «The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois» is a sequel to his earlier work, «Bussy D'Ambois,» and was first published in 1613. The play is one of Chapman's dramas based on recent political and historical events in France. Specifically the play draws upon Edward Grimeston's «A General Inventory of the History of France» as a primary source and revolves around historical events that occurred in 1588, during the reign of Henri III. The drama concerns the story of...

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George Chapman

The Artist's Impression

Julia Schulz

The Artist's Impression

Georgina Harris, a voracious reader and daughter of a prominent Law Professor at the University of Cambridge, must learn to find her own way in life, after both her parents are killed in a horrific car accident. She moves to Oxford to live with her Aunt Jemima, and accepts a job at Balzac's Bookshop; and at the same time is introduced to Philip Morris: a wealthy liquor merchant, who is completing a Doctorate on the effects of solitude on Swedish citizens, at the University of Oxford. Then,...

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Julia Schulz

Plutus

Aristophanes

Plutus

The story of ‘Plutus’ concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed in injustice and knavery and the other arts whereby worldly men acquire riches. By way of answer the god only tells him that he is to follow whomsoever he first meets upon leaving the temple, who proves to be a blind and ragged old man.

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Aristophanes

The Tower of Death: A Play in Five...

Александр Дюма

The Tower of Death: A Play in Five Acts

Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas's greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain.<P> Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild sexual escapades–all expressly forbidden, of course, by both Church and State. Once satiated, the ladies...

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Александр Дюма

The School for Scandal

Ричард Шеридан

The School for Scandal

"The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upper class society in the late 1700s. Often referred to as a «comedy of manners», «The School for Scandal» is one Sheridan's most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama.

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Ричард Шеридан

Lorenzino

Александр Дюма

Lorenzino

This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion. Dumas's drama is based on an actual event–the assassination of Duke Alexander of Medici in 1537 by his cousin, Lorenzo. Lorenzino lures his relative to a trap under the pretext of providing him with a woman. He gets close to the Duke by pandering to his lusts, just so that he'll have the opportunity to kill him. His plan ultimately works, but results in the suicide of the woman Lorenzino loves, and...

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Александр Дюма

The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Fou...

Александр Дюма

The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Four

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of the nineteenth century. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also converted many of his fictions into riveting dramas, dividing his classic tale of revenge into four plays. In this fourth and final part, Edmond Dantes (the Count of Monte Cristo) sets out to destroy Danglars and Villefort, the other two men who had helped shanghai him to the island prison of Chateau d'If. He uses Danglars's illegitimate child, Benedetto, to...

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Александр Дюма

The School for Scandal

Ричард Шеридан

The School for Scandal

"The School for Scandal" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...

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Ричард Шеридан

Im Sommer geht man raus, sagt Mutte...

Ксюша Ангел

Im Sommer geht man raus, sagt Mutter (Hörspiel)

Sommer in Brandenburg: Das war Jungsein. Das war Rauchen in den leeren Kasernen, nachdem die sowjetischen Soldaten weg waren. Das war Umherstreifen. Das war die lange Dorfstraße und der Bus, der nur dreimal am Tag fuhr. Das war Schwimmen gehen. Das war die Angst vor den Faschos. Das war die Freundschaft zwischen Anne und Bettina. Das war, bevor Bettina sich zurückgezogen hat und als Anne noch dachte, dass alles anders werden könnte. Das waren die 90er in der Provinz. "Im Sommer geht man...

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Ксюша Ангел

Живописец короля

Петер Хакс

Живописец короля

Буше, некогда провозглашённый придворным живописцем Людовика XVI, доживает свой век в глубочайшей бедности, поддерживаемый разве что своей натурщицей, которая позировала для картины, некогда так его прославившей. К ним приходит Фрагонар, знакомый им ещё по временам их взлёта. Все они любимцы предыдущей эпохи, выброшенные за пределы избранного круга в нищету. Они встречаются, говорят о том, кто как живёт, кто пришёл им на смену. Хотя жанр этой пьесы заявлен как комедия, смело можно сказать, что...

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Петер Хакс

Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabler

"Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen (translated by William Archer, Edmund Gosse). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...

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Henrik Ibsen

Athaliah

Jean Racine

Athaliah

The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Molière and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is one of the best examples of such use noted for its harmony, simplicity and elegance. While critics over the centuries have debated the worth of Jean Racine, at present, he is widely considered a...

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Jean Racine

Trout Stanley

Claudia Dey

Trout Stanley

Described by Variety as Yukon Gothic,’ Claudia Dey’s acclaimed play Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are not identical in any way: Sugar, a complicated, insecure waif who still wears the tracksuit her mother died in ten years prior, and Grace, a rough-and-tumble hellcat who owns the local dump. At the...

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Claudia Dey

Drama

Karen Hines

Drama

Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for DramaPenelope Douglas is an exforensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a western boomtown grown three sizes too crazy. But then a television writer offs himself in her sleek bathroom and her oil-wife friend pronounces Penelope her baby's godmother. Will she be able to find heart in this wild and soulless landscape? Will she have to smudge her lipstick to «cowboy up»? Drama, a new play by the master of edgy dark...

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Karen Hines

The Hunchback

Paul Feval

The Hunchback

Henri de Lagardere, the best swordsman in France, suddenly finds himself duty-bound to protect the baby female heir of a murdered friend–a girl who matures into a beautiful woman who will one day inherit a princely fortune–a girl with whom Henri falls madly in love. But his affection is hopeless: the difference in their ages and stations in life precludes any permanent liaison. One by one, over the years, Henri tracks down and kills the assassins of the girl's father, until only the...

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Paul Feval

Трудные люди

Йосеф Бар-Йосеф

Трудные люди

1968 год. Герои пьесы – бежавшие в Англию во время войны евреи, брат и сестра, Саймон и Рахель. Сорокачетырёхлетняя Рахель всю жизнь мечтает о медицине, но в итоге четырнадцать лет своей жизни тратит на сожительство со студентами-медиками. Саймон пытается сосватать её за соломенного вдовца, их очень дальнего родственника по имени Лейзер, которого он встретил в Израиле. Вокруг Рахель вьются два достаточно жалких торгаша – её брат и новоиспечённый жених, пытающиеся один другого обмануть или...

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Йосеф Бар-Йосеф

Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabler

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Henrik Ibsen

Quality Street

J. M. Barrie

Quality Street

"Quality Street" by J. M. Barrie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone...

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J. M. Barrie

The Hour-Glass (verse)

W. B. Yeats

The Hour-Glass (verse)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an instrumental figure in the «Irish Literary Revival» of the 20th Century that redefined Irish writing. His father's love of reading aloud exposed him early on to William Shakespeare, the Romantic poets and the pre-Raphaelites, and developed an interest in Irish myths and folklore. Yeats was a complex man, who struggled between beliefs in the strange and supernatural, and scorn for modern science. He was intrigued by the idea of mysticism, yet had...

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W. B. Yeats

Quality Street

J. M. Barrie

Quality Street

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, was a Scottish author and dramatist whose works have enjoyed frequent revivals in film and on stage. «Quality Street» appeared in 1903, one year before the production of Peter Pan, as Barrie was becoming somewhat of a sensation in the theatrical world. This four-act comedy is an adult fairy tale of sorts, brought to life by Barrie's charming imagination and ability to weave between reality and fantasy. Pheobe...

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J. M. Barrie

Electra

Euripides

Electra

"The Electra of Euripides has the distinction of being, perhaps, the best abused, and, one might add, not the best understood, of ancient tragedies. «A singular monument of poetical, or rather unpoetical perversity;» «the very worst of all his pieces;» are, for instance, the phrases applied to it by Schlegel. Considering that he judged it by the standards of conventional classicism, he could scarcely have arrived at any different conclusion. For it is essentially, and perhaps consciously, a...

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Euripides

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