Miss Purdy's Class

Ljubav i sjaj: igrokaz u tri čina

Love and Splendor (1896) by Hermina Tomić is a three-act play published in the Entertainment Library of the Croatian National Library. The work deals with themes of love, social norms, and moral conflicts in bourgeois society at the end of the 19th centur

Čočara

Alberto Moravia

Widow Cesira and her daughter Rosetta flee bombed Rome to their native Ciociaria, where they experience hunger, fear and misery. Liberation brings tragedy: Rosetta is raped by Moroccan soldiers, destroying their faith in God and people.

Slike Marijine

Tirena

Marin Držić

Pastoral drama (comedy) in five acts, written in double-rhymed twelve-line stanzas (with eight-line stanzas in the lyrical parts), the oldest preserved play by Držić (premiered in 1548 in Dubrovnik, printed in 1551 in Venice).

Aretej

Miroslav Krleža

Through the parallel destinies of an ancient and a modern physician, Miroslav Krleža’s late drama dissects the motif of the intellectual caught between political repression, the horrors of war, and his own conscience.

Pokondirena tikva

Pocondirena tikva is a comedy by the famous Jovan Sterija Popović, writer and one of the best Serbian comedy writers of all time, also the founder of Serbian drama.