Found 501 results for "Drama texts: from c 1900 -"
Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.
Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)
by Sophocles
The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
Winter's Tale
by William Shakespeare
Two courtiers exchange compliments, speaking in an elegant, formal prose.
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.
Diary
by Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...