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The Adventures of Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie

ISBN 1421806363 (1-4218-0636-3)
Hardcover, 1st World Library

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end. Of course they lived at 14 [their house number on their street], and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there is was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner. [via]
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Aristophanes Five Comedies
by L. Matulay

ISBN 0819628638 (0-8196-2863-8)
Softcover, Biblo-Moser

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Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan

ISBN 0786239212 (0-7862-3921-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think, and experiment.
We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren't up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady's son, Robbie Turner, appears to be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army Ammo" chocolate bar; and upstairs, Briony's migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon, secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present....
The interwar, upper-middle-class setting of the book's long, masterfully sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we move forward--eventually to the turn of the 21st century--the novel's central concerns emerge, and McEwan's voice becomes clear, even personal. For at heart, Atonement is about the pleasures, pains, and dangers of writing, and perhaps even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing. McEwan shouldn't have any doubts about readers of Atonement: this is a thoughtful, provocative, and at times moving book that will have readers applauding. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
by David Ball

ISBN 0809311100 (0-8093-1110-0)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.
Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play's most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.
Using Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) Backwards and Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.
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Birds
by Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein

ISBN 0856682888 (0-85668-288-8)
Softcover, Aris & Phillips

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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791040925 (0-7910-4092-5)
Softcover, Facts on File

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The Day Room
by Don Delillo

ISBN 0822202786 (0-8222-0278-6)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

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Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land
by Tom Stoppard

ISBN 0802101305 (0-8021-0130-5)
Hardcover

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Draussen Vor Der Tur
by Borchert

ISBN 0844228273 (0-8442-2827-3)
Hardcover, Ntc Pub Group

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Exit the King, the Killer, and Macbett: Three Plays by Eugene Ionesco
by Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson, Charles Marowitz

ISBN 0802151108 (0-8021-5110-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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The Garden Party and Other Plays
by Vaclav Havel

ISBN 080213307X (0-8021-3307-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Giraudoux: Four Plays - Ondine, the Enchanted, the Madwoman of Chaillot, the Apollo of Bellac
by Jean Giraudoux, Maurice Valency

ISBN 0809007126 (0-8090-0712-6)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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Four Plays, Vol 1: Ondine, The Enchanted, The madwoman of Chaillo, by Giraudoux, Jean; ed. by Maurice Valency. 4 1/4 x 7. 32d ptg. [via]
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Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
by Moises Kaufman, Stephen Wangh

ISBN 0822216493 (0-8222-1649-3)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

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In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself.
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: JB Blanc, Dakin Matthews, Ian Ogilvy, Peter Paige, Julian Sands, Simon Templeman, John Vickery, Douglas Weston, Matthew Wolf [via]
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Homer's The Odyssey: A Play with Music
by Elliot Sokolov, Amie Brockway-Henson, Richard Henson

ISBN 0871298619 (0-87129-861-9)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub

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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 1416500243 (1-4165-0024-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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"Jane Eyre" is the story of its title character, a poor orphaned girl who comes to live with her aunt where she endures poor treatment from her aunt and cousins. Jane subsequently ships off to Lowood, a Christian boarding school where she endures more horrible conditions. After some time, life becomes more bearable at Lowood for Jane and she eventually finishes her coursework and spends a period of time as a teacher at the school. After leaving Lowood she comes into the employment of Mr. Rochester as a governess at Thornfield Hall. "Jane Eyre" is the story of one woman's struggle to overcome adversity and a classic love story. [via]
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Jane Eyre
by Diana Stewart

ISBN 0817216618 (0-8172-1661-8)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Raintree

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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester. [via]
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Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Peter Fish, Ken Kesey

ISBN 0812034333 (0-8120-3433-3)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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A guide to reading "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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The Kentucky Cycle
by Robert Schenkkan

ISBN 0822213095 (0-8222-1309-5)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

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Learned Ladies
by Moliere, Richard Wilbur

ISBN 082220648X (0-8222-0648-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

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Les Femmes Savantes
by Moliere

ISBN 0781803985 (0-7818-0398-5)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books

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The Madwoman of Chaillot
by Jean Giraudoux, Maurice Valency

ISBN 0822207141 (0-8222-0714-1)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

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The Man Outside
by Wolfgang Borchert

ISBN 0811200116 (0-8112-0011-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides

ISBN 0786257008 (0-7862-5700-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.
Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:

Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." & I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you'll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing it--putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnight--just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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The Odyssey
by Homer

ISBN 1416500367 (1-4165-0036-7)
Softcover, Pocket Classics

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Odyssey which in Greek literally means "the tale of Odysseus," has becomes synonymous with a great journey. "The Odyssey" follows Homer's "The Iliad" where we find all the surviving warriors of the great Trojan War have returned home except for Odysseus, who has been detained by the nymph Calypso for her sexual pleasure. Odysseus however wishes to return to his family and loved ones who await his return at home. The Gods send the fleet-footed Hermes to order Calypso to free him and in doing so Odysseus begins his journey. Along the way Odysseus must overcome many obstacles and battle mythical creatures. Contained in this volume is the prose translation of Samuel Butcher and Andrew Lang. [via]
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The Odyssey
by Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. Ambrus

ISBN 1562884336 (1-56288-433-6)
Hardcover, Checkerboard Pr Inc

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The Odyssey
by Richard P. Martin, Homer

ISBN 0801868548 (0-8018-6854-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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"Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place:
when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom
and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea,
only this man longed for his wife and a way home."
Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style.
Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century.
To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey, its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniques, and his cast of characters. In addition, Martin provides detailed notesfar more extensive than those in other editionsaddressing key themes and concepts; the histories of persons, gods, events, and myths; literary motifs and devices; and plot development. Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.
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The Odyssey of Homer
by Homer

ISBN 0835902323 (0-8359-0232-3)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey

ISBN 0786201118 (0-7862-0111-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse. [via]
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Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie

ISBN 1561563056 (1-56156-305-6)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks

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"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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Peter Pan
by Anne McCaffrey, J. M. Barrie, Francis D. Bedford

ISBN 081297297X (0-8129-7297-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day, have long been out of print, and have never been equaled.

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Peter Pan
by Greg Hildebrandt

ISBN 0881011118 (0-88101-111-8)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House

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Peter Pan
by Moose Charlap

ISBN 0881881058 (0-88188-105-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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8 vocal selections from the 1954 Broadway version of the beloved story starring Mary Martin. Includes

Songs: I Won't Grow Up : I'm Flying : Tender Shepherd (count Your Sheep) : I've Gotta Crow : Distant Melody : Never Never Land : Captain Hook [via]
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Peter Pan or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts
by John Caird, Trevor Nunn, J. M. Barrie

ISBN 0822213451 (0-8222-1345-1)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

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Ever since Peter Pan flew in through Wendy Darling's nursery window and took her off to Never Land, Barrie's classic adventure story has thrilled and delighted generations of theatre-goers. J M Barrie wrote Peter Pan first as a work of prose and then adapted it for the stage. John Caird and Trevor Nunn first adapted Barrie's book and play in the 1980s for the Royal Shakespeare Company and then in 1997 for the Royal National Theatre.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 1406502472 (1-4065-0247-2)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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R. U. R.
by Karel Capek

ISBN 1419143751 (1-4191-4375-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters

ISBN 1420925970 (1-4209-2597-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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Such is the lament of George Trimble, just one of the many good folk of Spoon River--late of the grave and raised from the dead to bear witness to life. Whether minister or judge, housewife or mayor, clerk or carpenter, banker, lawyer, or town drunk, these monologues form an unforgettable legacy of the private hopes, the dreams, and the aspirations, the successes and the failures, the jealousies and the betrayals, the prejudices and the disillusionments of the people of spoon river.
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Spoon River Anthology
by Spoon River Anthology

ISBN 1414236824 (1-4142-3682-4)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

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The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
by Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 0880013591 (0-88001-359-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers

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A Tempest
by Aime Cesaire

ISBN 0913745405 (0-913745-40-5)
Softcover, Ubu Repertory Theater Pubns

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A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's the Tempest Adaptation for a Black Theatre
by William Shakespeare, Richard Miller, Aime Cesaire

ISBN 1559362103 (1-55936-210-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group

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One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Trial of God
by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel, Arthur Samuelson

ISBN 0805210539 (0-8052-1053-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
by Anna Deavere Smith

ISBN 0822218410 (0-8222-1841-0)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

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Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event. [via]
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Venus
by Suzan-Lori Parks

ISBN 1559361352 (1-55936-135-2)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group

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Parks' latest and most controversial work.
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White Devil
by Mulryne

ISBN 0803252889 (0-8032-5288-9)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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