About Drama
Plays in the general drama category are the workhorses of the repertoire — pieces that don't sit cleanly in tragedy, comedy, history, or farce, but that share a serious interest in how ordinary speech can be made, scene by scene, to carry an extraordinary weight of feeling.
All dramas in the archive (222)
- Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts — by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
- First Plays — by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
- A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 — by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
- A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 — by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
- A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 — by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
- A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 — by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
- Boris Godunov: a drama in verse — by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
- The Sea-Gull — by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Ivanoff: A Play — by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts — by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series — by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Lucky Pehr — by August Strindberg
- Lovers' Vows — by August von Kotzebue
- Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade — by Augusta Stevenson
- Contemporary One-Act Plays — by B. Roland (Benjamin Roland) Lewis
- Misalliance — by Bernard Shaw
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets — by Bernard Shaw
- Mrs. Warren's Profession — by Bernard Shaw
- You Never Can Tell — by Bernard Shaw
- Caesar and Cleopatra — by Bernard Shaw
- Captain Brassbound's Conversion — by Bernard Shaw
- O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet — by Bernard Shaw
- Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) — by Bernard Shaw
- Heartbreak House — by Bernard Shaw
- How He Lied to Her Husband — by Bernard Shaw
- John Bull's Other Island — by Bernard Shaw
- Arms and the Man — by Bernard Shaw
- The Devil's Disciple — by Bernard Shaw
- Major Barbara — by Bernard Shaw
- Pygmalion — by Bernard Shaw
- Overruled — by Bernard Shaw
- Androcles and the Lion — by Bernard Shaw
- Candida — by Bernard Shaw
- The Man of Destiny — by Bernard Shaw
- The Doctor's Dilemma — by Bernard Shaw
- The Philanderer — by Bernard Shaw
- Getting Married — by Bernard Shaw
- Fanny's First Play — by Bernard Shaw
- The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet — by Bernard Shaw
- Press Cuttings — by Bernard Shaw
- Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch — by Bernard Shaw
- The Miraculous Revenge — by Bernard Shaw
- The Admirable Bashville; Or, Constancy Unrewarded Being the Novel of Cashel Byron's Profession Done into a Stage Play in Three Acts and in Blank Verse, with a Note on Modern Prize Fighting — by Bernard Shaw
- Saint Joan — by Bernard Shaw
- Harlequin and Columbine — by Booth Tarkington
- Writing for Vaudeville — by Brett Page
- Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts — by Charles Gounod
- Plays and Puritans — by Charles Kingsley
- The Servant in the House — by Charles Rann Kennedy
- The Spirit of Contradiction — by Charles Rivière Dufresny
- The Double Widowing — by Charles Rivière Dufresny
- The Village Coquette; Or, The Supposed Lottery — by Charles Rivière Dufresny
- Apu Ollantay: A Drama of the Time of the Incas — by Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir Markham
- Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts — by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
- The Harlequinade: An Excursion — by Dion Clayton Calthrop
- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare — by E. (Edith) Nesbit
- Cyrano de Bergerac — by Edmond Rostand
- Chantecler: Play in Four Acts — by Edmond Rostand
- L'Aiglon — by Edmond Rostand
- The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts — by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Aria da Capo — by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride — by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
- The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield — by Edward Robins
- Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts — by Emlyn Williams
- The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Symons — by Ernest Christopher Dowson
- Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa — by Ernest Fenollosa
- The Hairy Ape — by Eugene O'Neill
- Anna Christie — by Eugene O'Neill
- The First Man — by Eugene O'Neill
- The Straw — by Eugene O'Neill
- Beyond the Horizon — by Eugene O'Neill
- Gold — by Eugene O'Neill
- All God's chillun got wings, and Welded — by Eugene O'Neill
- King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays — by Floyd Dell
- The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes: Volume 01. — by Francis Beaumont
- Wallenstein's Camp: A Play — by Friedrich Schiller
- Demetrius: A Play — by Friedrich Schiller
- Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx — by Friedrich Schiller
- The Grand Inquisitor — by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors — by George Iles
- The Sentimentalists — by George Meredith
- The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness — by Georgette Leblanc
- The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Volume I — by Gerhart Hauptmann
- The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Volume II — by Gerhart Hauptmann
- Hadda Pada — by Guðmundur Kamban
- When We Dead Awaken — by Henrik Ibsen
- Little Eyolf — by Henrik Ibsen
- The Feast at Solhoug — by Henrik Ibsen
- The Vikings of Helgeland — by Henrik Ibsen
- Pamela Giraud: A Play in Five Acts — by Honoré de Balzac
- Charles Frohman: Manager and Man — by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
- The Admirable Crichton — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- Dear Brutus — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- What Every Woman Knows — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- Alice Sit-By-The-Fire — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- Echoes of the War — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- The old lady shows her medals — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- Mary Rose — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- Peter Pan — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- The Tinker's Wedding — by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
- Deirdre of the Sorrows — by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
- Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts — by James Elroy Flecker
- The Hunchback — by James Sheridan Knowles
- The Love-chase — by James Sheridan Knowles
- The Unforseen Return — by Jean-François Regnard
- The McNaughtens — by Jean-François Regnard
- The Follies of Love — by Jean-François Regnard
- Fanny and the Servant Problem — by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
- Iphigenia in Tauris — by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Abraham Lincoln: A Play — by John Drinkwater
- Joy: A Play on the Letter "I — by John Galsworthy
- Strife: A Drama in Three Acts — by John Galsworthy
- The Eldest Son — by John Galsworthy
- The Fugitive: A Play in Four Acts — by John Galsworthy
- The Pigeon: A Fantasy in Three Acts — by John Galsworthy
- The Mob: A Play in Four Acts — by John Galsworthy
- A Bit O' Love — by John Galsworthy
- The Foundations (An Extravagant Play) — by John Galsworthy
- The First and the Last: A Drama in Three Scenes — by John Galsworthy
- Four Short Plays — by John Galsworthy
- Complete Plays of John Galsworthy — by John Galsworthy
- A Family Man : in three acts — by John Galsworthy
- Loyalties — by John Galsworthy
- Windows — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : First Series — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : Second Series — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : Third Series — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : Fourth Series — by John Galsworthy
- Plays : Fifth Series — by John Galsworthy
- Six Short Plays — by John Galsworthy
- The Beggar's Opera — by John Gay
- The Piper: A Play in Four Acts — by Josephine Preston Peabody
- Bluebeard; a musical fantasy — by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. — by Kuno Francke
- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes — by Kuno Francke
- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes — by Kuno Francke
- Sakoontala; Or, The Lost Ring: An Indian Drama — by Kālidāsa
- Angels and Ministers, and Other Victorian Plays — by Laurence Housman
- Washington Square Plays — by Lewis Beach
- If: A Play in Four Acts — by Lord Dunsany
- Plays of Gods and Men — by Lord Dunsany
- Moral — by Ludwig Thoma
- 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors — by Mark Twain
- Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller — by Marvin Dana
- The Shakespeare Story-Book — by Mary Macleod
- Proserpine and Midas — by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts — by Maurice Maeterlinck
- Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home — by Maurice Maeterlinck
- The Betrothal A Sequel to the Blue Bird; A Fairy Play in Five Acts and Eleven Scenes — by Maurice Maeterlinck
- Joyzelle — by Maurice Maeterlinck
- The Burgomaster of Stilemonde: A Play in Three Acts — by Maurice Maeterlinck
- Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts — by Maurice Maeterlinck
- The miracle of Saint Anthony — by Maurice Maeterlinck
- The Lucky Man — by Monsieur (Michel) Baron
- The Triple Marriage — by Néricault Destouches
- Parsifal A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation — by Oliver Huckel
- Lady Windermere's Fan — by Oscar Wilde
- A Woman of No Importance — by Oscar Wilde
- An Ideal Husband — by Oscar Wilde
- Vera; Or, The Nihilists — by Oscar Wilde
- Intentions — by Oscar Wilde
- Miscellanies — by Oscar Wilde
- Life Is a Dream — by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Alias Santa Claus — by Percival Wilde
- Menexenus — by Plato
- Chitra, a Play in One Act — by Rabindranath Tagore
- The King of the Dark Chamber — by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Post Office — by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Duenna: A Comic Opera — by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Classic Traditions; Translated into English for the First Time — by Robert Arnot
- A Blot in the 'Scutcheon — by Robert Browning
- The Contrast — by Royall Tyler
- Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema — by Samuel Vaknin
- The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays — by Sterling Andrus Leonard
- Plays — by Susan Glaspell
- A Gentleman from Mississippi — by Thomas A. (Thomas Alfred) Wise
- Our American Cousin — by Tom Taylor
- The Naturewoman — by Upton Sinclair
- Prince Hagen — by Upton Sinclair
- The Machine — by Upton Sinclair
- The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870 — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 26, September 24, 1870 — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870 — by Various
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917 — by Various
- Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870. — by Various
- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829 — by Various
- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 — by Various
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 — by Various
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890 — by Various
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917 — by Various
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 — by Various
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 7, 1914 — by Various
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 2, 1890 — by Various
- The Countess Cathleen — by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
- Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England — by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg
- Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship — by William Archer
- The Elevator — by William Dean Howells
- The Parlor Car — by William Dean Howells
- The Register — by William Dean Howells
- The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas — by William Henry Frost
- The Wolves and the Lamb — by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona — by William Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — by William Shakespeare
- Twelfth Night — by William Shakespeare
- The Tempest — by William Shakespeare
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre — by William Shakespeare
- Mucedorus — by William Shakespeare
- Sir Thomas More — by William Shakespeare
- Thomas Lord Cromwell — by William Shakespeare
- The London Prodigal — by William Shakespeare
- The Puritan Widow — by William Shakespeare
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton — by William Shakespeare
- Fair Em — by William Shakespeare
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 1 of 9] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising — by William Shakespeare
- The Dramatic Values in Plautus — by Wilton W. (Wilton Wallace) Blancké
- Dr. Jonathan — by Winston Churchill