19 must-read classics books like Dulcitius Abraham by Hrotsvitha

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Dulcitius Abraham

By: Hrotsvitha

2.91

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Dulcitius is a Latin comedy written by Hrosvitha of Gandersheim, a member of the female Abbey of Ga…

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1. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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2. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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3. The Little Clay Cart (Clay Sanskrit Library)

By: Shudraka , Partha Chatterjee , Diwakar Acharya

3.51

Format: 674 pages, Hardcover

The “Little Clay Cart” is, for Sanskrit theatre, atypically romantic, funny, and thrilling. This mo… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
"Clouds, harnessed in the lightening's gleams Like charging elephants dash by. At Indra's bidding, pour their streams Until with silver cords it seems That earth is linked with sky"

-Shudraka, The Little Clay Cart (Clay Sanskrit Library)

Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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5. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Cover of The Escape: A Leaf For Freedom by William Wells Brown, John Ernest

6. The Escape: A Leaf For Freedom

By: William Wells Brown , John Ernest

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A well-known nineteenth-century abolitionist and former slave, William Wells Brown was a prolific w… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Miss Julie by David French, August Strindberg

7. Miss Julie

By: David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

8. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Eunuch by Terence, A.J. Brothers

9. The Eunuch

By: Terence , A.J. Brothers

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

When first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today, with its larger-than-life characters (… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. The York Play of the Crucifixion

By: Stephen Greenblatt , Unknown

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Roberto González Echevarría, John Rutherford

11. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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12. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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13. Harvest

By: Manjula Padmanabhan

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Om, a young man, is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make h… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Mother Courage and Her Children by David Hare, Bertolt Brecht

14. Mother Courage and Her Children

By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Henry V by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

15. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
  • drama
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16. Menaechmi; Or, the Twin-Brothers

By: Plautus , Henry Thomas Riley

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered to be Plautus's greatest play, "Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers" is the story of two tw… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

17. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

18. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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19. Death and the King's Horseman: A Play

By: Wole Soyinka

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's … read more

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20. The Second Shepherd's Play

By: Wakefield Master

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lisl Beer adapted this famous play from the Towley Manuscript of Old English. As observed in FaceBo… read more

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21. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

22. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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23. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

24. Thyestes

By: Seneca , None

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

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25. La vida es sueño

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more

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26. Professor Hieronimus

By: Amalie Skram

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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27. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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28. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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29. Atsumori

By: Zeami

3.26

Format: 40 pages, ebook

The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo about the Buddhist priest Rensei and the warrio… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
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30. Dulcitius Abraham

By: Hrotsvitha

2.91

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Dulcitius is a Latin comedy written by Hrosvitha of Gandersheim, a member of the female Abbey of Ga… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • 10th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Aeneid by Virgil

31. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

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3.95

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