Drama Classics Books

An elegant and touching portrait, the last play written by Greek tragedian, Sophocles, focuses on the challenges faced by the wandering blind king Oedipus, approaching his end with a tranquility earned through a lifetime of suffering for his unwitting sins. Download it now!

Considered to be one of Ibsen`s greatest theatrical successes above all in German theaters, Pillars of Society are said to have been staged at no fewer than 27 theaters in Germany and Austria by the end of 1878! Download it now!

A powerful psychological drama by Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, that exposes the hypocrisy of social conventions through the events in the life of Mrs. Helen Alving--a Captain's widow who is haunted by her husband's infidelities and the disease that he has passed on to their son. Download...

Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw responded to the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia with this grotesque, one-act farce, in which he spoke out very determinedly for the use of violent methods to transform society. Download it today!

When an adulterous father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, tension erupt to a murderous end.

By English Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. It belongs in the sub-genre of "humors comedy", in which all the major characters are dominated by an overriding humor or obsession. Download it today!

A short play by Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, with focus on the mystery surrounding English playwright, William Shakespeare's dark lady character subject in the sonnets that he wrote. Download it now!

By Greek tragedian, Sophocles. Son of Poias in Greek mythology, Philoctetes by gift acquired the bow and arrow of Hercules, by lighting the pyre on which the hero was consumed alive. On his way to the Trojan War, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake; and because the odor from his wound and his cries...

An epic poem penned by the incomparable German Shakespeare--Goethe. Faust is the subject of a bet between God and Mephistopheles. The story is thus set, and Faust and Mephistopheles take to the world on a journey that leads the doctor into lewd affairs, titanic conflicts, and eventually...

First performed in 1593, this Play by English dramatist, Christopher Marlowe, revolves around the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre that occurred in Paris in 1572. Download it today!