Found 1,050 results for "Historical drama, history and criticism"
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...
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...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
King Henry V
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare wrote the draft of Henry V that became the First Folio text in the early summer of 1599.
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...
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...
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.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...
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...
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
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...
Преступление и наказание
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
No início de julho, ao entardecer, sob um calor intenso, um jovem saiu do cubículo que sublocava na travessa S.
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.