Found 791 results for "English literature: drama texts"
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...
Συμπόσιον
by Πλάτων
Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...
Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)
by Sophocles
OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...
Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
Medea
by Euripides
For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.
Aeneis
by Publius Vergilius Maro
I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce, James Joyce
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Enter Leonato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger.
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]