Drama Classics Books

The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (first published 1597) is a play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young star-crossed lovers. Perhaps the most famous of his plays, it is one of his earliest theatrical triumphs and is considered the archetypal love...

I n the English countryside, a poor tinker named Christopher Sly becomes the target of a prank by a local lord. Finding Sly drunk out of his wits in front of an alehouse, the lord has his men take Sly to his manor, dress him in his finery, and treat him as a lord. When Sly recovers, the men tell...

Henry James' celebrated novel about a passionate New England suffragette, her displaced southern gentleman cousin, and a charismatic young woman whose loyalty they both wished to possess goes so directly to the heart of sexual politics that it speaks to us with a voice as fresh and as vital as...

A comedy by Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw. Download it today!

A one-act, true to life farce by Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw. Download it now!

By the father of modern drama, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, this dark, psychological Play follows its reckless, manipulative heroine to her tragic end. Download it now!

After Hamlet's father is killed by his brother, Claudius, Hamlet struggles with his vow to seek revenge by murdering Claudius.

A political manifesto by German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which Egmont's craving for justice and national liberty is opposed to the despotic authority of the Duke of Alva. This literary work is also a drama of destiny in which the Flemish nobleman, with fatalism, accepts the dire...

A collection of early plays by Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen. Download it now!

Set in ancient Egypt, Cleopatra attempts to win back the love of Antony who is torn between his love for Cleopatra and his true wife, Octavia.