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Aeschylus I: Oresteiaby AeschylusISBN 0226307786 (0-226-30778-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus I: Oresteia'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Aeschylus I: Oresteia:
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Aeschylus IIby David Grene, Richmond LattimorISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Aeschylus II:
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Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Boundby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216717 (0-8122-1671-7)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound'Book summary:The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
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This final volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt, because of his demand that they marry his sons, and the well-known tale of the proud and unrepentant Prometheus, who is chained to a massive rock for revealing fire and hope to humankind.
Translations are by David Slavitt (Persians), Stephen Sandy (Seven Against Thebes), Gail Holst-Warhaft (The Suppliants), and William Matthews (Prometheus Bound).More editions of Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound:
Aeschylus Two: Four Tragedies Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians, the Suppliant Maidensby AeschylusISBN 0226307794 (0-226-30779-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Aeschylus, 2: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Boundby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812234650 (0-8122-3465-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Amadeus: A Dramaby Peter ShafferISBN 0573611696 (0-573-61169-6)
Softcover, Samuel French
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Amadeus: A Playby Peter ShafferISBN 0233972722 (0-233-97272-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Antigoneby Jean AnouilhISBN 2710300257 (2-7103-0025-7)
Softcover, Table Ronde
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Bacchaeby Euripides, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566630673 (1-56663-067-3)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae'Book summary:Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently hysterical--celebration of the feast of Dionysus, the God of wine.[via]More editions of Bacchae:
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Bacchaeby Richard SeafordISBN 0856686093 (0-85668-609-3)
Softcover, Aris & Phillips
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Bakkhaiby Euripides, Robert Emmet MeagherISBN 0865162859 (0-86516-285-9)
Softcover, Bolchazy Carducci Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bakkhai'Book summary:Euripides Bakkhai a play about the theater and its god. A tragedy in which the essence of all tragedy is distilled and disclosed. Originally commissioned for a London theater group, Robert Emmet Meagher's translation made its American debut at the Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, MO.
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The Bakkhaiby Robert BaggISBN 0870231901 (0-87023-190-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Becketby Jean AnouilhISBN 0844218421 (0-8442-1842-1)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becket'Book summary:209pages. in12. Broché. [via]
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Becket or the Honor of Godby Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill, Andre AcimanISBN 1573225088 (1-57322-508-8)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Beggar's Operaby John GayISBN 1588277798 (1-58827-779-8)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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The Complete Playsby Oscar WildeISBN 0413187608 (0-413-18760-8)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Plays'Book summary:This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form[via]
Wilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem plays', Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, as well as his once-banned Salome and several other little-known but fascinating dramas. H. Montgomery Hyde, an acknowledged expert on Wilde and author of several books on him, provides an introduction to Wilde's life and work with special attention to the composition and performance of the plays."Wilde is to me our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audiences, with the whole theatre" (George Bernard Shaw)
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Der Besuch Der Alten Dameby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0395040892 (0-395-04089-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Besuch Der Alten Dame'Book summary:The full German text of Dürrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. [via]
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Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigoldsby Paul ZindelISBN 0060757388 (0-06-075738-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds'Book summary:The old, converted vegetable shop where Tillie lives is more like a madhouse than a home. Tillie's mother, Beatrice, is bitter and cruel, yet desperate for her daughters' love. Her sister, Ruth, suffers epileptic fits and sneaks cigarettes every chance she gets. In the midst of chaos, Tillie struggles to keep her focus and dreams alive. Tillie -- keeper of rabbits, dreamer of atoms, true believer in life, hope, and the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds.
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- Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds: ISBN 0822203502 (0-8222-0350-2)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service - Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds: ISBN 0553280287 (0-553-28028-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds: ISBN 0060268298 (0-06-026829-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds: ISBN 0553102680 (0-553-10268-0)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books - Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds: ISBN 0060757388 (0-06-075738-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
- Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds: ISBN 0822203502 (0-8222-0350-2)
Euripides Bacchaeby Euripides, Elizabeth CauseyISBN 0929524853 (0-929524-85-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Euripides' Bacchae: Translation, Introduction and Notesby Steven EspositoISBN 0941051420 (0-941051-42-0)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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Euripides' The Bacchaeby Gita Wolf, Indrapramit Roy, Gita Wolf-Sampath, Sirish RaoISBN 0892367652 (0-89236-765-2)
Hardcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripides' The Bacchae'Book summary:This contemporary retelling of Euripides' The Bacchae-the last extant Greek tragedy-relates the classic myth of the god Dionysus wrecking vengeance on Thebes, the city of his birth and site of his mortal mother Semele's horrible death. Dionysus brings an army of women into the mountains surrounding the city and casts a spell over the city's own female population, leading them to abandon their husbands, sons, and fathers and to follow the god into the countryside and engage in his forbidden revels. Pentheus, king of Thebes, leads an army against the god, only to be defeated in battle and, as he secretly watches the revels, to be torn limb from limb by the frenzied Bacchae.
Original illustrations silk-screened on handmade paper accompany the story. This unique handcrafted book will be a treasured addition to the libraries of those who love the arts of ancient Greece and the art of fine, contemporary bookmaking. [via]More editions of Euripides' The Bacchae:
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Fencesby August WilsonISBN 0452264014 (0-452-26401-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fences'Book summary:Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a Negro from the major leagues during his prime, Troy's bitterness takes it's toll on his relationships with both his wife and son who now wants his own chance to play. "One of the great characters in American drama." - The New York Post "One of the richest experiences I have ever had in the theatre. I wasn't just moved. I was transfixed." - The New York Post "A blockbuster and a major American play." - New York Daily News [via]
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Fencesby Not Available, Samuel G. FreedmanISBN 1559363029 (1-55936-302-9)
Hardcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fences'Book summary:[via]A Pulitzer Prize winner. Garbage collector Troy Maxson clashes with his son over an athletic scholarship.
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicideby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0553273256 (0-553-27325-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide'Book summary:For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf is a celebration of being black and being a woman. From its beginnings in California to its enormous success at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and on Broadway, this unique dramatic prose poem has amazed audiences everywhere with its power and grace, with the freshness of its language, with the fierce beauty of its message to the world. [via]
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoemby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0684843269 (0-684-84326-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem'Book summary:The complete text and stage directions to Shange's 1976 Broadway production is the moving statement of a talented black woman artist who sings the song of her own experience in a way that all can relate to it. [via]
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- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem: ISBN 0020248911 (0-02-024891-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem: ISBN 0026098407 (0-02-609840-7)
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enufby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0915288133 (0-915288-13-3)
Hardcover, Shameless Hussy Press
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Four Plays Of Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Boundby Aeschylus, E. D. A. MorsheadISBN 1419150014 (1-4191-5001-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Plays Of Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Bound'Book summary:This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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Happy Birthday, Wanda Juneby Kurt Vonnegut, Tony JohnstonISBN 0440504848 (0-440-50484-8)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June'Book summary:In his first published play, Kurt Vonnegut finds a powerful vehicle for his tragicomical imagination. When the great hunter Harold Ryan--missing and presumed dead--returns from Africa after eight years, his wife is aghast and his son is enchanted. Vonnegut's attack on phony heroes and male swagger uses some of the funniest dialogue ever created for the stage. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Playsby Oscar Wilde, Richard Allen CaveISBN 0140436065 (0-14-043606-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays'Book summary: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.[via]More editions of The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays:
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An Inspector Callsby J. B. PriestleyISBN 0822205726 (0-8222-0572-6)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inspector Calls'Book summary:An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war. [via]
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Lady Windermere's Fanby Oscar WildeISBN 1420925938 (1-4209-2593-8)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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The Life of Tymon of Athensby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557834350 (1-55783-435-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Tymon of Athens'Book summary:If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
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Night Thoreau Spent in Jailby Robert E. Lee, Jerome LawrenceISBN 0809012235 (0-8090-1223-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Thoreau Spent in Jail'Book summary:A reissue of a now classic American drama.[via]
If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." So wrote the young Henry David Thoreau in 1849. Three years earlier, Thoreau had put his belief into action and refused to pay taxes because of the United States government's involvement in the Mexican War, which Thoreau firmly believed was unjust. For his daring and unprecedented act of protest, he was thrown in jail. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a celebrated dramatic presentation of this famous act of civil disobedience and its consequences. Its poignant, lively, and accessible scenes offer a compelling exploration of Thoreau's philosophy and life. 
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jailby Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. LeeISBN 055327838X (0-553-27838-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Periclesby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714693 (0-14-071469-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Periclesby P. EdwardsISBN 0140707298 (0-14-070729-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare, Roger WarrenISBN 0192814605 (0-19-281460-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'Book summary: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 a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
- Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
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- Pericles, Prince of Tyre: ISBN 0521297109 (0-521-29710-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Pericles, Prince of Tyre: ISBN 074327329X (0-7432-7329-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr - Pericles, Prince of Tyre: ISBN 0140714383 (0-14-071438-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Pericles, Prince of Tyre: ISBN 0174435851 (0-17-443585-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Pericles, Prince of Tyre: ISBN 0415027020 (0-415-02702-0)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold - Pericles, Prince of Tyre: ISBN 0192814605 (0-19-281460-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Cymbeline / the Two Noble Kinsmenby William Shakespeare, Ernest Schanzer, Richard Hosley, John Fletcher, Clifford LeechISBN 0451530357 (0-451-53035-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Cymbeline / the Two Noble Kinsmen'Book summary:The plays collected here follow: the journeys of Pericles, Prince of Tyre; the political and romantic betrayals of Cymbeline - a chieftain of ancient times; and a work based on Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.[via]More editions of Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Cymbeline / the Two Noble Kinsmen:
Pericles, Prince of Tyre ; Cymbeline ; The Two Noble Kinsmen (with John Fletcher)by William ShakespeareISBN 0451520424 (0-451-52042-4)
Hardcover, New American Library
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Peter Shaffer's Amadeusby Peter ShafferISBN 0060935499 (0-06-093549-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Shaffer's Amadeus'Book summary:0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture.
Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available with a new preface by Peter Shaffer and a new introduction by the director of the 1998 Broadway revival, Sir Peter Hall. Amadeus is a must-have for classical music buffs, theatre lovers, and aficionados of historical fiction.
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: ISBN 0451158946 (0-451-15894-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: ISBN 0060140321 (0-06-014032-1)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - Peter Shaffer's Amadeus: ISBN 0060935499 (0-06-093549-9)
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Phaedraby Jean RacineISBN 1419141171 (1-4191-4117-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Phaedraby Oreste F. Pucciani, Jean RacineISBN 088295069X (0-88295-069-X)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Phaedreby Jean RacineISBN 1857544641 (1-85754-464-1)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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Phedraby Jean Racine, Julie RoseISBN 1854590944 (1-85459-094-4)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Phedreby Jean RacineISBN 0844219940 (0-8442-1994-0)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co
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Playsby Oscar WildeISBN 0140480161 (0-14-048016-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Plays of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1853261858 (1-85326-185-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plays of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an inaugurator and a master of modernism. In his best work, the subversive insights embedded in his wit continue to challenge our common assumptions. Wilde's ability to unsettle and startle us anew with his radical vision of the artifice inherent in the self's construction makes him our contemporary.
This edition is introduced by John Lahr, author of Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. The plays included are Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]More editions of The Plays of Oscar Wilde:
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The Plays of Oscar Wildeby Edgar Saltus, Oscar Wilde, Edgar E. SaltusISBN 0394604903 (0-394-60490-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Plays: One/Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Boundby Aeschylus, Kenneth McLeish, Frederic RaphaelISBN 0413651908 (0-413-65190-8)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Prometheus Bound/the Suppliants/Seven Against Thebes/the Persiansby Philip VellacottISBN 0140441123 (0-14-044112-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prometheus Bound/the Suppliants/Seven Against Thebes/the Persians'Book summary:[via]Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.
A god who would not bow to the gods anger you
Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal menAeschylus (525456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes.
Philip Vellacotts evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.
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RhinocErosby Eugene IonescoISBN 0030137314 (0-03-013731-4)
Softcover, Harcourt School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'RhinocEros'Book summary:"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stéréotypé devient aberrant. C'est ce que Ionesco démontre dans Rhinocéros, pièce qui a tout d'abord vu le jour sous la forme d'une nouvelle. Partisan d'un théâtre total, il porte l'absurde à son paroxysme en l'incarnant matériellement.
Allégorie des idéologies de masse, le rhinocéros, cruel et dévastateur, ne se déplace qu'en groupe et gagne du terrain à une vitesse vertigineuse. Seul et sans trop savoir pourquoi, Bérenger résiste à la mutation. Il résiste pour notre plus grande délectation, car sa lutte désespérée donne lieu à des caricatures savoureuses, à des variations de tons et de genres audacieuses et anticonformistes. La sclérose intellectuelle, l'incommunicabilité et la perversion du langage engendrent des situations tellement tragiques qu'elles en deviennent comiques, tellement grotesques qu'elles ne peuvent être que dramatiques.
On a dit du théâtre de Ionesco qu'il était engagé ; il l'est, en faveur de l'individu, menacé de marginalisation quand, malgré ses faiblesses, il parvient à résister aux tentations avilissantes qu'il a lui-même fait naître. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Salomeby Oscar WildeISBN 0828314675 (0-8283-1467-5)
Softcover, Branden Pub Co
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Salome & Under the Hillby Oscar WildeISBN 1871592127 (1-871592-12-7)
Softcover, Creation Pub Group
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Salome: A Tragedy in One Actby Oscar WildeISBN 1419145908 (1-4191-4590-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Six Characters in Search of an Authorby Luigi Pirandello, Joseph Farrell, John LinstrumISBN 0413772683 (0-413-77268-3)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Softcover, Ivan R Dee - Six Characters in Search of an Author: ISBN 0413460304 (0-413-46030-4)
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Playsby Mark Musa, Luigi PirandelloISBN 014018922X (0-14-018922-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Six Characters Looking for an Authorby Luigi PirandelloISBN 0413768104 (0-413-76810-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director and his company of actors listen as the characters begin to describe and argue over the key events of their lives&One of the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, Six Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty: where do we come from, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?Six Characters Looking for an Author premiered at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in February 2000.
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Story Number Twoby Eugene IonescoISBN 0825282829 (0-8252-8282-9)
Softcover, Doubleday
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Suppliants and Other Dramas: Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Fragments With Prometheus Bound Traditionally Ascribed to Aischylosby Aeschylus, Michael LewisISBN 0460877550 (0-460-87755-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Timon of Athensby William ShakespeareISBN 1903436656 (1-903436-65-6)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William S. CarrollISBN 1903436958 (1-903436-95-8)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557834385 (1-55783-438-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Visitby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0802130666 (0-8021-3066-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Phedreby Larousse StaffISBN 203871682X (2-03-871682-X)
Softcover, Larousse, Editions
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Phedreby RacineISBN 2038714088 (2-03-871408-8)
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Besuch Der Alten Dameby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0415051401 (0-415-05140-1)
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LA Muerte Y LA Doncella / Death And The Ladyby Ariel DorfmanISBN 158322078X (1-58322-078-X)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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