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Fragrant Fruit
This book is a collection of campus skits and local publicity pieces. Its appeal lies in its simple writing about Yellow River culture and portraits o…
A New Ballad of Mulan: A Screenplay
This is a new Mulan story written in screenplay format, complete with scenes, dialogue, and songs; it is highly immersive and suited to readers who en…
A Cultural History of Chinese Drama
Starting from the origins of dramatic beauty, this book traces the historical development of Chinese drama from primitive song and dance and the symbo…
Othello
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 …
Thunderstorm
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…
The Complete Greek Tragedies and Comedies
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…
The Cherry Orchard
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 …
Polyeucte
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…
Black Coal, Thin Ice (Screenplay)
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…
Harvard Classics, Volume 14: Greek Drama
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-…
Twelfth Night
Yilin Press · 2018
Twelfth Night
All My Sons
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 …
The Complete Tragedies of Shakespeare (Three Volumes)
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…
The Contrast
· 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…
Riders to the Sea
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 …
Cyrano de Bergerac
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…
Minna von Barnhelm
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…
Love for Love
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…
Justice
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…
Demetrius
Demetrius is the last play by the German poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), based on the "False Demetrius" episode in Russian history.…