Drama & Plays

An instant audio classic! Sir Patrick Stewart draws upon his decades on the Shakespearean stage to bring listeners an all-new, definitive recording of the complete Sonnets—an audio treasury of incandescent performances and insightful personal commentary. Already beloved by audiobook listeners...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time...

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY The World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings Romeo and Juliet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition. In Romeo...

Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play....

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. Now in a new edition from S&S Audio! In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller...

This shattering drama of isolation and loss is one of the greatest tragedies in world literature....

These 36 lectures introduce you to Shakespeare's major plays and explain the achievement that makes him the leading playwright in Western civilization....

Young Claudio has fallen for the lovely heiress Hero, who also loves him. Their path to the altar looks smooth, until the evil Don John intervenes....

Love and wit conquer all in Shakespeare's sparkling comedy of self-delusion and disguise....

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY The World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings Macbeth to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition. Macbeth, one of...

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece....

A collection of BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of Jane Austen's six major novels. Jane Austen is one of the finest writers in the English language, and this volume includes all six of her classic novels. Mansfield Park: on a quest to find a position in society, Fanny Price goes to live...

These guiding principles allow you to follow the narratives of the plays as they unfold, with a clear understanding of how the plays function and fit together....

The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings Julius Caesar to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the...

This collection includes ten plays by Arthur Miller: After the Fall, All My Sons, Broken Glass, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Incident at Vichy, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Price, and more....

Henry V is a study of kingship, patriotism, and heroic determination tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, princess of France....

Eight full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's best loved comedies. Full of merriment, mayhem, mischief and mistaken identity, here are eight iconic radio productions of Shakespeare's most magical comedies, featuring star casts and introduced by Sir Richard Eyre. Much Ado About Nothing...

Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a specter from beyond the grave bearing a grim message....

Sinister supernatural forces are at work in this fast-paced tragedy of guilt and retribution, in which the power of human beings to control their own destiny is called into question....

This great tragedy confronts the mystery at the heart of evil and contains some of Shakespeare's most magnificent dramatic verse....

On the eve of becoming a married man, the Counselor makes a risky entrée into the drug trade - and gambles that the consequences won' t catch up to him....

Chaos and confusion mount to a crescendo in a wild and fast-paced comedy of mistaken identity, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays....

The grandson of a Scottish clan laird, Duncan MacTavish is shocked to learn that his other grandfather was an English marquis....

At the heart of this tragic history is one of Shakespeare's most noble characters, Brutus, who is caught in a devastating conflict between private affection and public duty....

One tragic night. One homemade field. Three generations tied to a fence. When a late-night shooting rips through a small New England town, the cameras leave before the sirens stop. But factory worker Fred Davis refuses to look away. He clears a strip of land by the creek, hammers together a backstop, and builds a fence with a promise no kid in his neighborhood will ever believe life is only what happens on the six o’clock news. Board by board, that patch of dirt becomes a refuge where games last until dark, adults remember who they used to be, and a community fights to protect the one ...

What hope do you have against a psychopath? When Judge Beckert is forced to retire, he takes the law into his own hands and begins killing innocent children. He successfully eludes detectives but is ultimately hunted down by the very people he once imprisoned. There is a smell to it, you know. To death. “Boscutti’s M” is a remarkable crime screenplay. It goes beyond law and order. Can we ever know what compels a man to murder? ‘Disturbing, unsettling exploration into the depths of madness and murder.’ Marcus Hill ‘Boscutti twists morality and legality in this chilling update of ...

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is one of the most powerful plays ever written about fear, power, and mass hysteria. Set during the Salem witch trials of 1692, the story shows how paranoia and accusation can destroy entire communities when truth becomes secondary to reputation and survival. This fast study guide breaks down the play in a clear and practical way so readers can understand the major ideas without getting lost in the language or historical context. Inside you will find a structured explanation of the story, characters, themes, and the deeper meaning behind the events in Salem. ...

A superb selection of Emlyn Williams’ finest plays Emlyn Williams was one of the brightest stars of Welsh stage and screen. An acclaimed playwright, actor and director, he made over 40 film and TV appearances, re-invented the one-man show with his virtuoso portrayals of Charles Dickens and...

This prose adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet includes: Complete retelling of the tragedy as a novel (18,700 words) Original afterword on the art and tradition of adapting Shakespeare Author biography of William Shakespeare Adapter biography with translation credentials A king is murdered by his brother. The dead man's son discovers the truth — and cannot act on it. Between the knowing and the doing, a kingdom falls. Hamlet is the most performed, most studied, and most quoted play in the English language. It is also one of the most difficult to actually read. Shakespeare wrote for actors,...

Known for his novels written after the age of 40, Machado de Assis, in his youth, was involved with the theater, either as a theater critic or as a playwright. One of his plays – written at age 25 (1864), staged in 1865 and published as a book in 1866 – is called “Tailcoat Gods”, a “theatrical comedy” in verse, and presents a reflection on the decadence of the Olympians, that is, the Greco-Roman gods, in the face of Modernity. This text, in a way, engages in an important intertextual dialogue with “Gods in Exile,” by Heinrich Heine, whom the young Machado de Assis greatly ...

A double serving of thrilling vintage spy drama featuring the tenacious Captain Jim Nicholson "These productions are pure ‘Boys Own'-style entertainment...I found them to be thoroughly engrossing, with the actors conveying earnestness throughout." - Entertainment Focus A treat from the archive...

London, 1989. In a quiet theatre audition room, a young actress meets the legendary director Sir Peter Hall. What begins as a simple audition slowly becomes something more—a confrontation between ambition, motherhood, and the expectations placed on women in the theatre. As past and present echo each other, the question lingers: how much has really changed?

Obra de teatro na que, a modo de sátira, se trata unha das tradicións máis galegas, a matanza do porco, pero neste caso, dun xeito singular que virará nunha relación fraternal. Os tempos mudan moi de présa. Mais, as tradicións, co seu paso xeracional, seguen o seu curso con precisa lentitude e fidelidade, algo que vai chocar de fronte coas leis nada subxectivas, máis ben totalmente obxectivas, da Administración.

Diários do infinito é a terceira obra de contos do escritor e dramaturgo Newton Moreno, um dos nomes mais respeitados na dramaturgia brasileira. Ópera e Cidades sensíveis são os primeiros. Os textos que habitam este livro-lar foram textos escritos durante a pandemia, sob o teto da ameaça da doença, em estado de quarentena, ao descobrirmos - todos - termos a mesma vizinha, a peste. Mas de tão caseiros, estes contos falam de uma ideia de casa, lar, família, moradas, árvores genealógicas, pertencimento, território e saudades.