Dramatic Literature

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Othello William Shakespeare Othello is often called the "simplest and most cruel" of Shakespeare's tragedies: no ghosts, no witches, no struggle for the throne—every disaster is …
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Rating 4.3
Thunderstorm Cao Yu People's Literature Publishing House · 1999 Thunderstorm is a four-act play written by Cao Yu at the age of 23 and published in July 1934 in the journal Literary Quarterly; it is regarded as the…
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Rating 4.5
The Complete Greek Tragedies and Comedies Aeschylus / 索福克勒斯 / Euripides / 阿里斯托芬 / Menander Yilin Press · 2016 The Complete Greek Tragedies and Comedies is a Chinese complete collection translated from the Greek texts of the Cambridge Loeb Classical Library, cr…
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Polyeucte Pierre Corneille Polyeucte is Corneille's most mature tragedy in five acts and verse, regarded by many as his most perfect, standing alongside Le Cid, Horace, and Cinn…
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The Cherry Orchard Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Commercial Press · 2016 The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov's final play, written in 1903 and first performed in 1904. Along with The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters, it is …
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Black Coal, Thin Ice (Screenplay) Diao Yinan This is a film screenplay that can be read as a work of literature. Rather than centering on plot twists, it braids together the coldness of a dismemb…
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Rating 4.2
Harvard Classics, Volume 14: Greek Drama Aeschylus / 索福克勒斯 / Euripides / 阿里斯托芬 / Charles William Eliot Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2013 This is Volume 14 of the Harvard Classics series, corresponding to Volume 14, "Greek Drama," of the original English edition (also known as the "Five-…
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Rating 4.1
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Yilin Press · 2018 Twelfth Night
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All My Sons Arthur Miller Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 All My Sons is Arthur Miller's second play, in three acts. It premiered at the Crown Theatre on Broadway in New York on January 29, 1947, directed by …
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Rating 3.1
Riders to the Sea John Millington Synge CITIC Press · 2015 Riders to the Sea (also translated as Drowned in the Sea and Knights of the Sea) is a one-act tragedy written by the Irish playwright John Millington …
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Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand People's Literature Publishing House · 2009 Cyrano de Bergerac is a five-act heroic comedy written in 1897 by the French playwright Edmond Rostand, originally titled Cyrano de Bergerac and based…
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Rating 3.9
Minna von Barnhelm Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 1980 Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's Fortune, is a five-act comedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the leading dramatist of the German Enlightenment. Fir…
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Rating 4.7
The Complete Tragedies of Shakespeare (Three Volumes) William Shakespeare Writers Publishing House · 2016 The Complete Tragedies of Shakespeare is a three-volume hardcover set released by Writers Publishing House to mark the four hundredth anniversary of S…
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The Contrast Royall Tyler · 1790 The Contrast is a comedy by Royall Tyler, first performed in 1787 at the John Street Theatre in New York. It was the first American play to be publicl…
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Justice John Galsworthy Justice is a four-act tragedy by the English writer John Galsworthy (1867–1933), first performed and published in 1910, and his most famous social-pro…
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Demetrius 弗里德里希·席勒 Demetrius is the last play by the German poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), based on the "False Demetrius" episode in Russian history.…
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Love for Love William Congreve Love for Love is a Restoration comedy of manners written by the English playwright William Congreve in 1695. It was first performed on 30 April 1695 b…
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Catwoman 1994 Edition Vol. 3 Jo Duffy / Jim Balent This volume is the third in the "Catwoman 1994 Edition" series, corresponding to DC's Catwoman Vol. 2 #3, "Life Lines, Chapter Three: Shadow of the Ca…
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Transformers: Dark Cybertron Vol. 11 John Barber / James Roberts This is Vol. 11 of IDW's Transformers: Dark Cybertron series, corresponding to Chapter 11 of the "Dark Cybertron" event (originally More Than Meets th…
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Rating 4.3
Batman: Black and White 1 Dennis O'Neil / 尼尔·盖曼 / Frank Miller / Jim Lee / Bruce Timm / Katsuhiro Otomo / Archie Goodwin World Publishing Corporation · 2017 Batman: Black and White 1 is the Chinese edition collecting the first batch of DC's same-titled black-and-white short-story project, published by Worl…