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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)

Continuously in print since 1948, Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been established as the most comprehensive and authoritative single–volume collection of Wilde’s works available,...

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Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics)

Three of the greatest plays in American literature collected in one volume This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating foreword by playwright John Guare and an extensive afterword...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare)

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is...

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Much Ado about Nothing (The Pelican Shakespeare)

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is...

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The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations

The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the revolution in Romania. Americans rejoiced at the dramatic...

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Aias (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations...

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Guillaume Tell: Opera in Four Acts by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis (The Critical Edition of the Works of Gioachino Rossini, Section I: Operas)

This critical edition of Rossini's last opera differs substantially from the score that tradition has handed down to us. Based on study of the autograph, of other manuscript sources (particularly...

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The Letters of Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) has been called the patron saint of independent bookstores. Founder of the Left Bank's Shakespeare & Company in 1919 and first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), her...

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Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950: A Critical Anthology

This critical anthology of avant-garde drama offers comprehensive coverage of that distinctively twentieth-century tradition. It includes the full texts of sixteen important plays, each preceded...

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Sean O'Casey: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Modern Dramatists Research and Production Sourcebooks)

As the author of The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars, and Juno and the Paycock, Sean O'Casey is one of the most significant Irish playwrights of the 20th century. He was deeply concerned...

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David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

In the last 30 years, David Hare has written 12 stage plays, seven screenplays and one opera, and has gained international attention as one of Britain's major contemporary playwrights. Hare's...

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And Still I Rise: A Selection of Poems Read by the Author

These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.From the Hardcover edition. Manufacturer: Random House Audio Voices Author: Maya...

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The Laramie Project

For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project-whose previous play, Gross Indecency, was hailed as a work of unsurpassed...

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Four Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

Contains Lysistrata, The Congresswomen, The Acharnians, and The Frogs Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press Author: Aristophanes ISBN: 0472061526 Number Of Pages: 432

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The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)

Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature’s most famous epigrams. Widely considered...

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Don Juan in Hell: From Man and Superman (Thrift Edition)

A dream sequence from the 3rd act of Man and Superman, "Don Juan in Hell" forms a play within the play, consisting of a dramatic reading by 3 characters from the main play in archetypal guises. The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s...

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The Dazzling Dark: New Irish Plays : Danti-Dan, a Picture of Paradise, Good Evening, Mr Collins, Portia Coughlan

A collection of four plays by young Irish playwrights, including Marina Carr, who wrote "The Mai", and Jimmy Murphy, author of "Brothers of the Brush". Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux Author:...

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"Macbeth" (Actors on Shakespeare)

The "Actors on Shakespeare" series draws on the contemporary relevance of, and enjoyment to be found in, Shakespeare. Each book provides an introduction to a particular play from an individual...

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Stuff Happens

How does the world settle its differences, now there is only one superpower? What happens to leaders risking their credibility with sceptical publics? From events which have dominated international...

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Ibsen's Ghosts

Manufacturer: Faber and Faber Author: Frank McGuinness Author: Henrik Ibsen ISBN: 0571260020 Number Of Pages: 112

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No Exit and Three Other Plays

4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American...

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Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape

Customer Review: This edition provides three original plays by Eugene O'Neill, about men at war with themselves and society. In "The Emperor Jones" Brutus Jones is a black man who has escaped the...

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The Libertine (French Surrealist Series)

classic surrealist novel, tr Jo Levy Manufacturer: Calder Publications Author: Louis Aragon Author: Aragon ISBN: 0714541044 Number Of Pages: 185

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The Killer, Improvisation, Maid to Marry, Rhinoceros, the Leader, the Future Is in Eggs (Collected Plays, Vol B)

Manufacturer: Riverrun Pr Author: Eugene Ionesco ISBN: 0714542245

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Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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...

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Christmas Through Our Eyes

When the Senior High Sunday School class at Saint John Center Lutheran Church in East Earl, Pennsylvania, couldn't find a Christmas play to suit their needs, they decided to write and perform their...

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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human...

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Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs

The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an...

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Rhinoceros and Other Plays

In Rhinoceros, as in his earlier plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town,...

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The Threepenny Opera (English Edition)

Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending- Bertolt Brecht's revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded...

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Women of Trachis: A Version by Ezra Pound

Mutability; uncertainty; a universe of precipitous change: these themes are at the heart of Sophocles' tragic vision. But nowhere are they elaborated with more urgency than in Women of Trachis. There...

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The Drama of Gender: Feminist Theater by Women of the Americas (Wor(L)Ds of Change, Vol. 38,)

The Drama of Gender fills the scholarly gap between women's dramaturgy and feminism as women manifest themselves on contemporary stages across the Americas. The plays examined-'Lua nua' by Leilah...

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Hedda Gabler

Manufacturer: Dramatist's Play Service Author: Henrik Ibsen Author: Brian Friel ISBN: 0822223791

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Close to the Bone (PLAYS)

Close to the Bone (PLAYS)

Deals with the forced adoptions of Aboriginal children taken from their families to live as white children. In the 1960s before the referendum on full citizenship rights for Aboriginal people in...

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Kingaroy (PLAYS)

Kingaroy is a fast-paced, light-hearted drama of identity, centred on a rodeo. Religion, Aboriginal mythology and a mechanical bull, all play a role in unravelling the complex relationships of the...

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One Hundred and One Famous Poems (Poetry)

The classic poetry anthology. Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble Books Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Author: George Gordon - Lord Byron Author: Emily Dickinson Author: George Eliot Author: Ralph Waldo...

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I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World

In this daring, provocative, and insightful book, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe....

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Pygmalion (Enriched Classics Series)

Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical ScholarshipAn idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century...

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An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde's classic drama, "An Ideal Husband," is the story of an up-and-coming politician with a secret past and the blackmail scheme to keep that secret quiet. Wilde's play is a first-rate comedy...

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Walking On Electric Air

Walking On Electric Air

When her fourth suicide attempt results in a disabled minivan rather than the peaceful farewell she'd planned in her carbon monoxide-filled garage, Dottie Westbrook, a depressed St. Louis housewife,...

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The Greek Plays

From The Persians"Defeat is impossibleDefeat is unthinkableWe have always been the favorites of fate. Fortune has cupped usIn her golden palms.It has only been a matterOf choosing our desire. Which...

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Four Greek Comedies: The Birds, The Frogs, The Clouds and The Peace (Classic Books on CD Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cds Collection)

These four plays, translated into blank verse by C.A. Wheelwright, exemplify the wide range of this playwright's imagination. From war and peace to politics and society to the relationships between...

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Seagull (Oberon Books)

The Seagull centers on the unsuccessful playwright Konstantin and his actress girlfriend Nina. When Nina falls in love with the successful novelist Trigorin, Konstantin kills a seagull and places it...

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The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Reprint) (Radical Thinkers)

Benjamin’s most sustained and original work, considered to be one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century. “Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician...

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Jerusalem (Royal Court)

"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English country community. Butterworth’s new work was the most talked about new work of the season."—The...

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Bad Girls (Nick Hern Books)

Authorized dramatisations with proven track records on stage. Manufacturer: Nick Hern Books Author: Jacqueline Wilson ISBN: 1854599100 Number Of Pages: 96

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The Fall of the House of Usher and The Phantom Island (Commuters Library - Spencer Audio Theater, Poe & Irving Stories)

Digitally recorded readings of unabridged literature classics, complete with original music & sound effects. Manufacturer: Sound Room Publishers Author: Edgar Allan Poe Author: Washington...

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Audio Drama 101: Verbatim Dramatizations of 101 Familiar & Unfamiliar Short Stories - O'Henry: A Celebration (Audio Drama 101)

Customer Review: Not to be outshined by the bbc, this audiodrama collection gives O Henry's short stories a first- rate treatment. And best of all, they are faithful to the original...

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The Soldier Dreams

The Soldier Dreams

The Soldier Dreams is a play about love, an examination of the effect of death on the living, and a homage to those we love who have left us. A young man lies dying of AIDS, as his family gathers...

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Henry IV, Part One (Arkangel Shakespeare) (Pt. 1)

While England is threatened by rebellion, the king’s scapegrace son Hal haunts the taverns of London, accompanied by the dissolute Falstaff and his band of rogues. The Earl of Northumberland and...

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Julius Caesar (Arkangel Shakespeare)

Julius Caesar is the most powerful man in Rome, but his power threatens the republic’s very existence. A conspiracy is hatched, one that will have fatal consequences not only for Caesar and the...

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YERMA / DO?A ROSITA LA SOLTERA (Biblioteca Edaf) (Spanish Edition)

Manufacturer: EDITORIAL EDAF S.L. Author: Federico Garcia Lorca ISBN: 8441411255 Number Of Pages: 224

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Macabeth, Julio César, Otelo

El clásico de Shakespeare. Manufacturer: EDITORIAL EDAF S.L. Author: William Shakespeare Author: Shakespeare ISBN: 8471666200 Number Of Pages: 272

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Evergreen

Manufacturer: Delacorte Press Author: Belva Plain Number Of Pages: 588

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