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Timon of Athens (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Timon of Athens (Folger Shakespeare Library)

by William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine

FOLGER S HAKESPEARE LIBRARY T HE WORLD'S LEADING CENTER FOR S HAKESPEARE 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 ... (more)

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by Archibald MacLeish

The Oxford Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale (The Oxford Shakespeare)

The Oxford Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale (The Oxford Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most fully realized tragicomedy, noted for the richness and complexity of its poetry. Though the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in the play a profoundly realistic psychology and a keen commentary on the violence implicit in family relationships and deep friendships. Orgel traces the changing critical and theatrical attitudes towards the play, and... (more)

With Banners (Emilie Loring #32) (Bantam Books #HL4532)Emilie Loring

With Banners (Emilie Loring #32) (Bantam Books #HL4532)

by Emilie Loring

The Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)

by Sophocles, E.F. Watling

The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle against fate. "King Oedipus" tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he doesn't realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment on himself. It is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down by his own oath. "Oedipus at Colonus" provides a fitting conclusion... (more)

The Tragedies of William Shakespeare (Modern Library)

The Tragedies of William Shakespeare (Modern Library)

by William Shakespeare

An appealing collection of the great tragedies of Shakespeare.

The Real Thing

by Tom Stoppard

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen... (more)

FOOL FOR LOVE AND OTHER PLAYS

by Sam Shepard

Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies. FOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER * ACTION * COWBOY MOUTH * MELODRAMA PLAY * SEDUCED *... (more)

Six Degrees of Separation

by John Guare

The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Shakespeare

by Michael Wood

In this absorbing historical detective story, acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood takes an entirely fresh approach to the Bard's life, vividly re-creating the turbulent times through which he lived and painting a more convincing and complete portrait of the artist than has ever before been thought possible. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, Wood takes us back into the staterooms and back... (more)

American Buffalo: A Play

by David Mamet

"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) A junk shop. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business."This play is a parable about the US - not in the journalistic way but quietly, stealthily, with all the rich interior organisation of a true... (more)

Oleanna

by David Mamet

"An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer the dogmatic, puritannical streak which has become commonplace on and off the campus. With Oleanna he continues an exploration of male-female conflicts begun with Sexual Perversity in Chicago in 1974. Oleanna cogently demonstrates that when free thought and dialogue are imperilled, nobody wins."... (more)

The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays (Vintage International)

The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays (Vintage International)

by Martin McDonagh

These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest complains, God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction there. The Beauty Queen of Leenane portrays ancient, manipulative Mag and her virginal daughter, Maureen, whose mutual loathing may be more durable than any love. In A Skull in Connnemara , Mick Dowd is hired to dig up the bones in the town... (more)

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

by Martin McDonagh

"Come on in ahead for yourselves. I'm just in the middle of shooting me Dad." Who knocked the cat belonging to "Mad Padraic" over on a lonely road on the island of Inishmore and was it an accident? He'll want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves his cat more than life itself. The Lieutenant of Inishmore premiered at the RSC's The... (more)

All My Sons

by Arthur Miller

Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went on to make a lot of money. In a work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Herbert's daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his... (more)

Christopher Durang Explains It All for You: Six Plays

Christopher Durang Explains It All for You: Six Plays

by Christopher Durang

Few playwrights have explored as relentlessly as Christopher Durang the pain and confusion of everyday life-or made us laugh so uproariously at the results.

The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Plays

The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Plays

by Harold Pinter

In The Birthday Party, a musician who escapes to a dilapidated boarding house becomes the victim of a ritual murder in which everyone- assassins, victim, and observers- implacably plays out the role assigned him by fate.The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation of fate when a blind Black man suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message.

A View from the Bridge

by Arthur Miller

This series of plays for the 11-16 age range offers contemporary drama and new editions of classic plays. The series has been developed to support classroom teaching and to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum Key Stages 3 and 4. The plays are ideal for classroom reading and performance; many have large casts and an equal mix of parts for boys and girls. Each play includes strategies and activities to... (more)

After the Fall : A Play in Two Acts

by Arthur Miller

A lost character draws upon events in his past as he searches for life's meaning in Miller's powerful play.

Arcadia: A Play

by Tom Stoppard

Arcadia is a brilliantly inventive play that moves back and forth between centuries, populated by a varied and vastly entertaining cast of characters who discuss such topics as the nature of truth and time, the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life-according to the author, "the attraction which Newton left out.

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