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Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Bayard Taylor

ISBN 1406807532 (1-4068-0753-2)
Softcover, Echo Library

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Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his struggle against the nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles. Part One presents Faust's pact with the Devil and the harrowing tragedy of his love affair with the young Gretchen. Part Two shows Faust's experience in the world of public affairs, including his encounter with Helen of Troy, the emblem of classical beauty and culture. The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition and on modern European history and civilisation. This new translation of both parts of Faust preserves the poetic character of the original, its tragic pathos and hilarious comedy. In addition, John Williams has translated the Urfaust, a fascinating glimpse into the young Goethe's imagination, and a selection from the draft scenarios for the Walpurgis Night witches' sabbath - material so ribald and blasphemous that Goethe did not dare publish it. [via]
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Faust
by Carl R. Mueller, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 1575253607 (1-57525-360-7)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc

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As much poem as it is play, Goethe's Faust is the spiritual quest of a soul determined to explore the very nature of Reality, a revolutionary work that refuses to accept limitations, but, like Romanticism itself, embraces all, the Natural World of everyday life, as well as the Great World of universal experience, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm. The Faust character, the Faustian soul, has become a universal concern. As multifarious as Hamlet and as mythic as Oedipus, he takes us on a journey to the depths and heights of experience and leaves us not the person we were before we met him. It is in Part One of Goethe's masterpiece that we discover Faust as the hero in whose being two contradictory forces collide. He is self-alienated man struggling to expand beyond the limitations of intellect and the known world, desperate to achieve a state, indeed mystical, where the opposites of Knowledge and Sensuality are One. Part One of Faust records that attempt in the context of earthly existence. Goethe's Faust has rightly been called the most audacious work in Western Civilization. [via]
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Faust
by Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 0300056567 (0-300-05656-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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Perhaps some apology ought to be given to English scholars, that is, those who do not know German, (to those, at least, who do not know what sort of a thing Faust is in the original,) for offering another translation to the public, of a poem which has been already translated, not only in a literal prose form, but also, twenty or thirty times, in metre, and sometimes with great spirit, beauty, and power.
The author of the present version, then, has no knowledge that a rendering of this wonderful poem into the exact and ever-changing metre of the original has, until now, been so much as attempted. To name only one defect, the very best versions which he has seen neglect to follow the exquisite artist in the evidently planned and orderly intermixing of male and female rhymes, i.e. rhymes which fall on the last syllable and those which fall on the last but one. Now, every careful student of the versification of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the vivacity of dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Faust
by Randall Jarrell, Peter Sis, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 0374164770 (0-374-16477-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Randall Jarrell's translation of Goethe's classic, illustrated with extraordinary new drawings by Peter Sis

Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook: "Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest"), and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he died, and the few lines that remained untouched--Gretchen's Spinning Song--were rendered into English by Robert Lowell.

This elegant new edition features numerous beautiful line drawings by the renowned Czech artist, Peter Sis, author of the award-winning books The Starry Messenger and Tibet: Through the Red Box.
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Faust Part 1
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert D. MacDonald

ISBN 1870259114 (1-870259-11-4)
Softcover, Oberon Books, Limited

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This new translation, in rhymed verse, of goethe's faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of european literature--preserves the essence of goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the german ever achieved [via]
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Faust, Part Two
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David Luke

ISBN 0192826166 (0-19-282616-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable and actable translation which includes an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology. [via]
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Faust, Parts One and Two
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 0671478206 (0-671-47820-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, "Faust" has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in "Faust," "Part 1," the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate.
This newly revised edition, which offers Peter Salm's wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us "Faust" in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe's words. [via]
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Faust/Bilingual
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 055321182X (0-553-21182-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Fausto / Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 9583007722 (958-30-0772-2)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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Goethe's Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 0195004108 (0-19-500410-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two. [via]
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Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Version
by C. F. MacIntyre

ISBN 0811200566 (0-8112-0056-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Goethe said that all his works were "one long confession," and certainly into Faust, this greatest masterwork of German literature, on which he worked sixty years, he welded his own search for meaning of existence and of the soul.
From the wager between God and Mephistopheles and the pact Faust makes with the latterthat this genial, urbane devil could have his soul if ever Faust became satisfied with any experience or knowledge Mephistopheles could show himthe drama unfolds in scenes that are human and compelling, that hold the reader by their despair and ecstasy, their tender love, passionate desire and wisdom, but also by their gaiety, humor, and irony. As Faust proceeds with his devilish guide, it is his striving for understanding that becomes important, not the attainment, and in fact this is what saves him in the end.

Part I of Faust, which Goethe published twenty-four years before its sequel, deals with Faust's journey through the everyday world and his love for Gretchen. It is made especially memorable in this translation, which Victor Lange, Chairman of the Department of German at Princeton, has called "certainly the most usable and most appealing Faust translation in English. It is modern without losing the dignity of the original and is perhaps the only translation that conveys something of the freshness and poetic vitality of Goethe's own speech." [via]
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Great Books of the Western World
by Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard Hutchins

ISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica

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The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 1406502448 (1-4065-0244-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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One of the best-loved clasic English comedies
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
by Oscar Wilde, Richard Allen Cave

ISBN 0140436065 (0-14-043606-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are wonderfully displayed in this collection of his essential plays. Known not only for his brilliant, epigrammatic language, but also for his sense of theatrical design, color, and staging, Wilde created an enduring body of finely crafted works, whose delights and ironies still speak to modern audiences. In addition to Lady Windermere's Fan, Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this edition contains an introduction, notes and commentaries, and an excised scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Importance of Being Earnest and Other Writings
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0517626411 (0-517-62641-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Parts 1 and 2
by Victor Lange

ISBN 0826407250 (0-8264-0725-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Goethe's masterpiece translated by the eminent English poet and translator Louis MacNeice. [via]
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Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby

ISBN 0198121679 (0-19-812167-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

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Monarch Notes on Goethe's Faust
by Paul Montgomery

ISBN 0671005219 (0-671-00521-9)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... the proper company for his Cadaverousness. In a letter of 1780, Goethe playfully applies the name £rad)e to his friend Merck, who was also a gaunt man. 5671. iBJnrlcrlol', 'wooden cross'; in sarcastic allusion to the Lean Person's appearance. 5678. bctUCflt, 'excitedly'; adv. with entfctltett. 5681. llmfrfjiipytc = befcfjupte, 'scaly.' 5685-6. J)o6cn... fycrnitiictraticn. The dragons (without hands, hence the marvel) take the box, with Mephistopheles sitting on it, out of the chariot and bring it to (heron) where Faust is standing. 5691. ft!) fief lit, 'motley.' 56g6. jur GtnfomfeU. Cf. the words of the Poet in the Prelude, 11. 59 ff. 5706. ticrrnftjcu. Poetry is self-revelation, i.e., self-betrayal. Cf. the lines in the West-Ostlicher Divan, IX, 19: ®rft ficfi im fflefjetmnifs toteflcn, £mn ter)I(mtetn friif) unb fpatl SUcfjter ift umfonft Berf(6wieflen, Sidjten fel&ft ift fdjott Serratfj. 5712. (loltmcnt SBlitte; figurative for the red-golden liquid which rises in the pots and threatens to dissolve the jewels. 5717. ftJimeljen fid), 'are melting,' i.e.,' are on the point of melting,'--whence the need of seizing them quickly. 5718. ©emiinte SRoHcn, 'minted rolls,' i.e., coins. 5719. $u!aten... gepragt = OotbftiidCe tote getorfigte £ufatcn, 'pieces like genuine ducats.' But Schroer says tote geprtigt = hrie lieu ge« torogt. 573-©olb unb 2Bertfy; i.e., roerthtjolle? (roirfltd)e«) ©olb. 5735-6. The meaning is: What 's the use of truth for such as you, ever the ready victims of stupid illusion?--9ln alien 3tyfeltt patfctl, 'to lay hold of by every tag,' i.e., to lay hold of with all one's might. 5753-Oil' UltS all', 'all together,' 'every one of us.' Cf. Sltt OTe in 1. 8483+. 5761-2. Plutus as magician draws an... [via]
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Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare, Josephine Waters Bennett

ISBN 014071412X (0-14-071412-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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"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 an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts [via]
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Much Ado about Nothing: The Making of the Movie
by Kenneth Branagh

ISBN 0393311112 (0-393-31111-2)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

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Movie, Making, Kenneth Branaugh, Shakespeare, Much ado about nothing [via]
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
by Jean Paul Sartre

ISBN 0679725164 (0-679-72516-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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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 racism. [via]
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Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James Theatre, London, 1895
by Oscar Wilde, Joseph Donohue, Ruth Berggren

ISBN 0861403789 (0-86140-378-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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This unique volume reconstructs the original 1895 production of Wilde's timeless classic. Based upon a new, reconstructive method for the study of theatrical performance that aims to set the play securely in its historical and cultural moment, the edition offers a wealth of detail about the staging and acting and numerous first production and early revival photographs. The reconstructed text itself, differing in important ways from the 1899 first edition, recaptures the essential comic vitality of the play. [via]
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Plays, Prose Writings & Poems
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 1857150422 (1-85715-042-2)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library

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Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Critic as an Artist", Apologia", "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism", "Letter to Robert Ross", "Requiescat" and "The Ballad of Reading Goal". Terry Eagleton is the author of "Criticism and Ideology", "Marxism and Literary Criticsm" and "Literary Theory: An Introduction". [via]
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Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 1594480907 (1-59448-090-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Shakespeare, who clearly preferred his women characters to his men (always excepting Falstaff and Hamlet), enlarges the human from the start, by subtly suggesting that women have the truer sense of reality. [via]
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SparkNotes The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare, Sparknotes, John Crowther

ISBN 141140100X (1-4114-0100-X)
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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Taming of the Shrew on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

Each No Fear Shakespeare contains
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The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman

ISBN 1557833818 (1-55783-381-8)
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The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously 'tames' a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided in their responses. [via]
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The Taming of the Shrew
by Cliff's Notes Editors

ISBN 0822000814 (0-8220-0081-4)
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One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Taming of the Shrew
by Morris, Brian Morris

ISBN 1903436109 (1-903436-10-9)
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Brian Morris was Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University and a general editor of both the Arden Shakespeare and the New Mermaid Dramatists series. His other publications include editions of the plays of John Ford and the poems of John Cleveland.

Morriss introduction begins with a discussion of the text as it first appeared in the First Folio of 1623. In the next section, he analyzes the problematic relationship between The Taming of the Shrew and The Taming of a Shrew, a different play which first appeared in text 29 years before the First Folio, and whose virtually identical name has caused much confusion. Morris then considers the date, sources, and authorship of the play, addressing the question of whether Shakespeare himself wrote it. In the last and most substantial part of the introduction, the editor examines the plays structures, themes (such as education, love, and marriage), and afterlife. Three appendices follow the text of the play: evidence to establish the relationship of The Shrew and A Shrew, from Samuel Hickson; the Sly scenes in A Shrew; and a source (from Gascoignes Supposes) and analogues.

The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee

ISBN 0451158717 (0-451-15871-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Twelve times a week, answered Uta Hagen when asked how often shed like to play Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albees masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evenings end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the plays razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as a brilliantly original work of artan excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.

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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Fausto / Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 8437606772 (84-376-0677-2)
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