Dramatic Works audiobooks page 7

Mary Stuart
Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her potential claim on the English throne. The action of the play revolves around an attempt to rescue Mary from prison and Elizabeth's indecision over whether or not to have her executed. The 1801 translation is by Joseph Mellish, a friend of Schiller's.
Boss
The Boss centers on the relationship between Michael Regan, an Irish-American businessman, and Emily Griswold, an outspoken American girl bent on saving her father's business. Set during a time when unions fought for wages and bosses fought for more stake in their company, the play's relevance strikes at the heart of economic issues and hardships in modern day America.
Die Räuber - Ein Schauspiel
Die Räuber ist der Titel des ersten veröffentlichten Dramas von Friedrich Schiller. Das Werk, das zunächst nicht als Bühnenstück, sondern als Lesedrama vorgesehen war (siehe unterdrückte Vorrede), sorgte für nationales Aufsehen im Literaturbetrieb und machte Schiller schlagartig berühmt.


Enthält die Besprechung "Die Räuber. Ein Schauspiel von Friedrich Schiller. 1782", und den "Anhang über die Vorstellung der Räuber" im Wirtembergischen Repertorium 1782, beide von Schiller anonym verfaßt.

Der Text folgt der zweiten Auflage von 1782.

Sektion 00 - unterdrueckte Vorrede - Vorrede zur zwoten Auflage - Avertissement zu der ersten Auffuehrung: Text (1)
Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries. Dubbed "a dirty deed done in public" by one of its critics, the play focuses on (among other things) venereal disease, euthanasia, and incest. The original title literally means "the ones who return," and the play is about how we can deal with the awful legacy of the past.
The Lady From the Sea
The title character in Ibsen's drama, Ellida Wangel, is married to a prosperous doctor, but feels stifled by her roles as wife and stepmother to her husband's two daughters by a previous marriage, Hilde and Bolette. Ten years earlier she had promised to marry another man - and on a sultry summer day, he comes back to her. Ellida must decide whether to choose the safety of her life with Wangel, or to yield to the siren song of the sea.
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua - Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua ist das zweite vollendete Drama Friedrich Schillers. Er begann das Stück, das sich an die historische Verschwörung des Giovanni Luigi de Fieschi gegen Andrea Doria in Genua des Frühjahrs 1547 anlehnt, nach der Premiere seines Stücks Die Räuber 1782.
Sektion 00 - Vorrede - Anzeige der Buehnenbearbeitung - Erinnerung an das Publikum: Text 1
Sektionen 01 - 10 - Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel: Text 2
Rosmersholm

Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen’s masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884. As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer, the theme of the play is social and political change, in which the traditional ruling classes relinquish their right to impose their ideals on the rest of society, but the action is entirely personal, resting on the conduct of the immoral, or amoral, “free thinking” heroine, Rebecca, who sets herself to undermine Rosmer’s religious and political beliefs because of his influential position in the community. Rebecca has abandoned not only Christianity but, unlike Rosm...

Wallenstein - Ein dramatisches Gedicht
Wallensteins Lager ist der erste Teil von Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein-Trilogie, dem Drama über den Niedergang des berühmten Feldherren Wallenstein.

Die Piccolomini ist der zweite Teil von Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein-Trilogie.

Wallensteins Tod ist der dritte Teil von Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein-Trilogie.

Das Werk spielt im Winter 1633/1634 (also fast 16 Jahre nach Beginn des Dreißigjährigen Krieges).


Sektionen 01 - 27 - Ein dramatisches Gedicht: Text (1)
Sektion 28 - Über die erste Aufführung der Piccolomini: Text (2)
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck (1884) (original Norwegian title: Vildanden) is by many considered Ibsen's finest work, and it is certainly the most complex. It tells the story of Gregers Werle, a young man who returns to his hometown after an extended exile and is reunited with his boyhood friend Hjalmar Ekdal. Over the course of the play, the many secrets that lie behind the Ekdals' apparently happy home are revealed to Gregers, who insists on pursuing the absolute truth, or the "Summons of the Ideal". Among these truths: Gregers' father impregnated his servant Gina, then married her off to Hjalmar to legitimize the child. Another man has been disgraced and imprisoned for a crime the elder ...
Wilhelm Tell - Schauspiel
Wilhelm Tell ist das letzte fertiggestellte Drama Friedrich von Schillers. Er schloss es 1804 ab. Das Drama nimmt den Stoff des Schweizer Nationalmythos um Wilhelm Tell und den Rütlischwur auf.