MoliereCritics have heralded Richard Wilbur's translations of Molière's seventeenth-century dramas as masterpieces. In brilliant rhymed couplets Wilbur renders into English not only the form and spirit of Molière's language but...

John Dover WilsonJohn Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has...

Eugene O'NeillThree Plays: Desire Under The Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes ElectraThese three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds...

Jean RacineThe three works in this volume established Racine as a playwright who enjoyed high favour both with the public and at the court of Louis XIV and presented a...

Jean RacineDepicts a princess' absolute submission to her father's will. This title shows a woman's struggle to overcome her overwhelming passion for her stepson - an obsession that brings destruction...

Simon Stone'Well we've got three floors right. Plenty of room... Room for a children's bedroom. Room for two.'London, the present day. A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her...

Ben JonsonThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from...

Author: William Shakespeare Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men, the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio, and the...

George Bernard ShawOne of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the...

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it...

Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu...

Author: William Shakespeare Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of...