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Cymbeline (The Pelican Shakespeare, AB28)

Cymbeline (The Pelican Shakespeare, AB28)

by William Shakespeare

The Pelican Shakespeare. No. AB28. Romance, tragic comedy. Edited by Robert B. Heilman. 176 pages.

Prick Up Your Ears The Biography Of Joe OrtonJohn Lahr

Prick Up Your Ears The Biography Of Joe Orton

by John Lahr

Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company, Burn This first appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los angeles in 1987 to near-universal praise. Set in the bohemian art world of downtown New York, this vivid and challenging drama explores the spiritual and emotional isolation of Anna and Pale, two outcasts who meet in the wake of the accidental death by drowning of a mutual friend. Their determined struggle... (more)

Sweet Bird of Youth

by Tennessee Williams

The acclaimed classic in a new edition, now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time , on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based. Sometime actor and full-time male hustler Chance Wayne returns to the Gulf Coast town of St. Cloud in an attempt to retrieve his lost innocence by reuniting with his high school girlfriend, Heavenly Finley. But Chance... (more)

Racing Demon: A Play

by David Hare

In conflict with government, torn with internal dissension on matters of doctrine and practice, the Church of England finds itself enjoying unwelcome publicity. David Hare's play, which details the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission in South London, opened to universal acclaim.

13 By Shanley Cloth (Applause Contemporary Masters Series)

13 By Shanley Cloth (Applause Contemporary Masters Series)

by John Patrick Shanley

Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck. Includes: "The Big Funk," "Savage in Limbo," "Danny and The Deep Blue Sea," "Welcome to the Moon," "The Red Coat," "Down and Out," "Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night," "Out West," "A Lonely Impulse of Delight," "Women of Manhattan," "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow," "Italian-American Reconciliation," and "Beggars in the House of Plenty." Also includes an... (more)

The Histories and Poems of William Shakespeare (Modern Library)

The Histories and Poems of William Shakespeare (Modern Library)

by William Shakespeare

This Modern Library edition presents all ten histories--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are: King John Richard II Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II Henry V Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry VI, Part III Richard III Henry VIII Included also are the Bard's great narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, the two works... (more)

Angels In America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (Angels in America)

Angels In America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (Angels in America)

by Tony Kushner

The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a feverish web of social, political, and sexual revelations.

Joseph A. Walker's "The River Niger": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 12, Chapter 8)

Joseph A. Walker's "The River Niger": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 12, Chapter 8)

Term paper due tomorrow? Need to cram for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work? Turn to "Drama for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: plot summary; character analysis; author biography; an overview of the play's themes, style, and... (more)

Right Before Your Eyes

by Ellen Shanman

Outspoken playwright Liza Weiler left Yale with everything she thought she needed to make her mark on the New York stage. So why, nearly a decade later, is she still waiting for her “real” life to finally begin? But like any great drama, Liza’s life only needs one good twist. And that’s what happens when she turns her ankle on the way out of a downtown nightspot and falls into the arms of a suspiciously gallant... (more)

Sundays at Tiffany's

by Gabrielle Charbonnet, James Patterson

As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend-a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael-but only she can see him. Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason... (more)

5th of July

by Lanford Wilson

Starring: JD Cullum, Michael Gladis, Lola Glaudini, Sarah Hagan, Marin Hinkle, Jay Paulson, and Matt Roth. Directed by: Adam Arkin The complete play on 2 CDs. 110 Minutes Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates selling the farmhouse, old friends and... (more)

August: Osage County

by Tracy Letts

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people."- Time Out New York "Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original."- New York magazine One... (more)

The Tragedy of Richard III

by William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, David Bevington, Peter Alexander, Peter Holland, Andrew Gurr, Roma Gill, A. L. Rowse, John Wilders, Richard Adams, Frances E. Dolan, Kenneth Muir

Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from... (more)

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from... (more)

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an... (more)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare, Arthur Rackham

Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from... (more)

An Unnatural Pursuit and Other PiecesSimon Gray

An Unnatural Pursuit and Other Pieces

by Simon Gray

Rose Tattoo

by Tennessee Williams

Published as a trade paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the acclaimed playwright John Patrick Shanley ( Doubt ) and the one-act on which The Rose Tattoo was based. The Rose Tattoo is larger than life—a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama—it is a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be. Professional widow and dressmaker Serafina... (more)

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an... (more)

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