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The stage comes alive through timeless dramas, comedies, and theatrical works that capture the full spectrum of human experience. Whether studying performance craft or losing yourself in Shakespeare's soliloquies, these scripts and stagecraft guides reveal the magic that unfolds when the curtain rises.

Plays Book Summaries

Play Summary
Play
How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
by Stuart M. Brown Jr. 2009 240 pages
3.88
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Parenting
Self Help
Free to Learn Summary
Free to Learn
Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
by Peter O. Gray 2013 288 pages
4.27
3k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Childrens
Play Anything Summary
Play Anything
The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
by Ian Bogost 2016 288 pages
3.17
500+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Games
An Actor Prepares Summary
An Actor Prepares
by Constantin Stanislavski 1936 320 pages
4.09
4k+ ratings
Theatre
Film
Drama
Romeo and Juliet Summary
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare 1597 281 pages
3.74
2.7M+ ratings
Plays
Classics
School
Death of a Salesman Summary
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller 1949 144 pages
3.58
200k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
Othello Summary
Othello
by William Shakespeare 1603 319 pages
3.89
400k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
School
Macbeth Summary
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare 1623 249 pages
3.89
900k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
School
Hamlet Summary
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare 1601 289 pages
4.02
900k+ ratings
Plays
School
Literature
Faust, First Part Summary
Faust, First Part
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 327 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Plays
Poetry
German Literature
Faust, Part Two Summary
Faust, Part Two
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832 304 pages
3.66
7k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Poetry
Antigone Summary
Antigone
by Sophocles 80 pages
3.67
100k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
School
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Summary
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Parts One and Two
by John Tiffany 2016 343 pages
3.48
1M+ ratings
Fantasy
Young Adult
Plays
The Cherry Orchard Summary
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov 1903 96 pages
3.68
42k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
The Crucible Summary
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller 1953 143 pages
3.61
400k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Historical Fiction
The Taming of the Shrew Summary
The Taming of the Shrew
By William Shakespeare & Illustrated
by William Shakespeare
3.75
100k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare 1595 298 pages
3.94
500k+ ratings
Plays
Fantasy
School
The Tempest Summary
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare 1611 218 pages
3.78
200k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Fantasy
King Lear Summary
King Lear
by William Shakespeare 1605 339 pages
3.91
200k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
School
Waiting for Godot Summary
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett 1952 109 pages
3.84
200k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Theatre
Four Great Tragedies Summary
Four Great Tragedies
Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth
by William Shakespeare 1606 592 pages
4.42
17k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
Twelfth Night Summary
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare 1602 272 pages
3.96
100k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
School
Bodas de sangre Summary
Bodas de sangre
by Federico García Lorca 1932 167 pages
3.87
30k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Spanish Literature
Six Characters in Search of an Author Summary
Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello 1921 64 pages
3.83
21k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
The Wild Duck Summary
The Wild Duck
by Henrik Ibsen 1884 128 pages
3.80
10k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Theatre
Julius Caesar Summary
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare 1599 175 pages
3.71
200k+ ratings
Plays
Drama
School
The Merchant of Venice Summary
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare 1596 249 pages
3.78
100k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
All My Sons Summary
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller 1947 112 pages
3.91
29k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Pygmalion Summary
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw 1913 82 pages
3.89
100k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
School
Normal People Summary
Normal People
The Scripts
by Sally Rooney 2021 368 pages
4.58
2k+ ratings
Contemporary
Romance
Plays
Oedipus Rex Summary
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles 75 pages
3.72
200k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
School
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Summary
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
The Original Screenplay
by J.K. Rowling 2016 293 pages
4.16
100k+ ratings
Fantasy
Young Adult
Magic
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays Summary
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
by Tennessee Williams 1955 329 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Look Back in Anger Summary
Look Back in Anger
by John Osborne 1956 96 pages
3.54
12k+ ratings
Plays
Drama
Classics
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