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After the Fall
by Arthur Miller

ISBN 0822200104 (0-8222-0010-4)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service

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After the Fall, a Play
by Arthur Miller

ISBN 0140481621 (0-14-048162-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems
by Mark Thornton Burnett

ISBN 0460879952 (0-460-87995-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Sensuous, passionate, disturbing, this is a collection of poems of love, violence and heroic deeds by arguably Shakspeare's greatest and most fascinating predecessor. [via]
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The Complete Plays
by Christopher Marlowe

ISBN 0460879871 (0-460-87987-1)
Softcover, Everyman

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Their texts fully restored by recent scholarship, Marlowe's astonishing works can now be appreciated as originally written. This edition includes all of Marlowe's plays, including two versions of Doctor Faustus. [via]
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- The Complete Plays: ISBN 0140430377 (0-14-043037-7)
  Softcover, Penguin USA
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  Softcover, Everyman
The Complete Plays
by Robert Lindsey, Christopher Marlowe, Frank Romany

ISBN 0140436332 (0-14-043633-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe
by Christopher Marlowe, Irving Ribner

ISBN 082900162X (0-8290-0162-X)
Hardcover, Irvington Pub

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Cymbeline
by William Shakespeare, Robert H. Heilman

ISBN 0140714286 (0-14-071428-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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One of Shakespeare's most perplexing and unclassifiable late plays, Cymbeline is often labelled a "Romance", due to its themes of pastoralism, exile and familial reconciliation which critics notice recur throughout Shakespeare's last plays, from Pericles to The Tempest. Set in ancient Roman Britain at the court of the British king Cymbeline, the main action of the play revolves around the relationship between Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, and Posthumous Leonatus. Attempting to marry Imogen off to Cloten, the grotesque son of Cymbeline's second wife, the king banishes Posthumous in a rage when he discovers he has secretly married Imogen. As the personal relationships in the play deteriorate, on the public stage Rome prepares to invade Britain due to Cymbeline's failure to pay tribute to his imperial master. As the play builds to its militaristic climax, Posthumous returns to Britain, where he eventually contrives a reunion with Imogen and Cymbeline's long-lost sons, who unite in their attempt to resist the might of Rome.
The ending of the play, with its series of mystical riddles, unlikely coincidences and extraordinary reunions has baffled critics for centuries. Some read it as a heavy-handed political allegory of Jacobean national union under the new sovereign of the time, King James I, whilst others see in it Shakespeare pushing theatrical realism to its furthermost limits, with its decapitated bodies, complex staging and unlikely mistaken identities. Cymbeline remains a puzzling, enigmatic play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Die Physiker
by Friedrich Durrenmatt

ISBN 0195009088 (0-19-500908-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Contains the complete text of a new satire written in the form of a mystery drama. [via]
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
by Christopher Marlowe, David Bevington, Eric Rasmusse N

ISBN 0192834452 (0-19-283445-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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A Doll's House and Other Plays
by Henrik Ibsen, Peter Watts

ISBN 0140441468 (0-14-044146-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Fin De Partie
by Samuel Beckett

ISBN 2707300705 (2-7073-0070-5)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc

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Editions de Minuit, 18*12 cm, 112 pages [via]
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Four Major Plays
by Henrik Ibsen

ISBN 0451524063 (0-451-52406-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen's works, these four plays--A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder--brilliantly embody his landmark contributions to the theater. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each work deals convincingly with the human emotions of greed, fear, and sexual hostility, and confronts the external conflicts between reality and illusion. Reissue. [via]
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Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen, William Archer, Edmund Gosse

ISBN 140650145X (1-4065-0145-X)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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HEDDA. Indeed? [Looks at the address.] Why yes, it's addressed in Aunt Julia's hand. Well then, he has remained at Judge Brack's. And as for Eilert Lovborg--he is sitting, with vine leaves in his hair, reading his manuscript. [via]
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Hedda Gabler and Other Plays
by Henrik Ibsen

ISBN 014044016X (0-14-044016-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. "The Pillars of the Community" 1877 depicts a corrupt shipowner's struggle to hide the sins of his past at the expense of another man's reputation, while in "The Wild Duck" 1884 an idealist, believing he must tell the truth at any cost, destroys a family by exposing the lie behind his friend's marriage. And "Hedda Gabler" 1890 portrays an unhappily married woman who is unable to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results for the entire family. [via]
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: English Version
by Doug Hughes

ISBN 0822217848 (0-8222-1784-8)
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From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote to the Swedish poet, Count Carl Soilsky: "Our intention has all along been to spend the summer in the Tyrol again. But circumstances are against our doing so. I am at present engaged upon a new dramatic work, which for several reasons has made very slow progress, and I do not leave Munich until I can take with me the completed first draft. There is little or no prospect of my being able to complete it in July. [via]
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The History Boys
by Alan Bennett

ISBN 0571224644 (0-571-22464-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber

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"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." -- The Daily Telegraph An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In The History Boys , Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises--with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character--not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today. [via]
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Homely Girl, a Life
by Arthur Miller

ISBN 0140252797 (0-14-025279-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A sumptuously packaged, gift volume of short fiction by the author of The Crucible, issued to coincide with his eightieth birthday, gathers three stories set in Manhattan before and after World War II. 35,000 first printing. National ad/promo. [via]
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How I Learned to Drive
by Paula Vogel

ISBN 082221623X (0-8222-1623-X)
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The 1950s pop music accompanying Li'l Bit's excursion down memory lane cannot drown out the ghosts of her past. Sweet recollections of driving with her beloved uncle intermingle with lessons about the darker sides of life. Balmy evenings are fraught with danger; seductions happen anywhere. Li'l Bit navigates a narrow path between the demands of family and her own sense of right and wrong. [via]
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King Henry VI
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1903436257 (1-903436-25-7)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare

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King John
by William Shakespeare, L.A. Beaurline

ISBN 0521293871 (0-521-29387-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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One of Shakespeare's most unpopular history plays, King John deals with the life and death of King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216. This is as early as Shakespeare goes in his treatment of English history, concentrating more successfully on the later 14th and 15th centuries in the plays which stretch from Richard II to Henry VI. As a result, King John suffers from being so historically distant in time, as well as offering a rather weak and vacillating king, who lacks the charisma and authority of Richard III or Henry V. The play begins with King John struggling to retain his throne, under attack from rebellious courtiers and Philip, the king of France. As the quarrel escalates into war with France, the plays begins to take on a contemporary Elizabethan flavour--the feared invasion from a foreign (Catholic) nation, and the extent to which such an invasion is based on the questionable paternity of King John (like Queen Elizabeth, John is accused of being a bastard and is excommunicated). The play is saved from its rather colourless political machinations by Philip the Bastard, John's favourite, a dramatic forerunner of dubious but charismatic malcontents like Edmund in King Lear. It is also Philip who is given the most powerful and patriotic lines, when he claims that "This England never did, nor never shall, / Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror". King John's mysterious and anticlimactic death through illness at the end of the play deflates expectations--something that could be said of the play as a whole. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King John
by Shakespeare Association Staff, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare

ISBN 0671722735 (0-671-72273-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Le Cid
by P. Corneille

ISBN 2035831989 (2-03-583198-9)
Softcover, Larousse Editions

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L'histoire de Rodrigue et Chimène est bien connue : tout concourt au bonheur des deux amants, jusqu'à ce que Rodrigue accepte, question d'honneur, de se battre en duel contre le père de Chimène. Vaincu, il perd la vie ; vainqueur, il perd Chimène, donc la vie. L'essence du dilemme cornélien tient en ces quelques mots, et c'est tout l'art de Corneille que d'inventer une issue à cette tragédie en apparence inextricable.
Mais Le Cid, c'est aussi un scandale retentissant - on accuse la pièce d'invraisemblance - et un triomphe inouï. Il faut imaginer la querelle : tout Paris amoureux de Chimène, tout Paris se consumant pour Rodrigue, des auteurs en colère, l'Académie prise à partie et Corneille aux anges : quel bruit, mais quel succès !
Il n'en restera pas là : aux admirateurs des dilemmes tragiques et des amours impossibles, il donnera Cinna, Horace et Polyeucte. Seul le talent d'un Racine, une génération plus tard, parviendra à faire de l'ombre au vieux maître de la tragédie. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Le Misanthrope
by Moliere

ISBN 2038713138 (2-03-871313-8)
Softcover, French & European Pubns

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The Life and Death of King John/The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII: 2 in 1
by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman

ISBN 1557833834 (1-55783-383-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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One of Shakespeare's most unpopular history plays, King John deals with the life and death of King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216. This is as early as Shakespeare goes in his treatment of English history, concentrating more successfully on the later 14th and 15th centuries in the plays which stretch from Richard II to Henry VI. As a result, King John suffers from being so historically distant in time, as well as offering a rather weak and vacillating king, who lacks the charisma and authority of Richard III or Henry V. The play begins with King John struggling to retain his throne, under attack from rebellious courtiers and Philip, the king of France. As the quarrel escalates into war with France, the plays begins to take on a contemporary Elizabethan flavour--the feared invasion from a foreign (Catholic) nation, and the extent to which such an invasion is based on the questionable paternity of King John (like Queen Elizabeth, John is accused of being a bastard and is excommunicated). The play is saved from its rather colourless political machinations by Philip the Bastard, John's favourite, a dramatic forerunner of dubious but charismatic malcontents like Edmund in King Lear. It is also Philip who is given the most powerful and patriotic lines, when he claims that "This England never did, nor never shall, / Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror". King John's mysterious and anticlimactic death through illness at the end of the play deflates expectations--something that could be said of the play as a whole. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Life of Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare, Robert L. Smallwood

ISBN 0140707271 (0-14-070727-1)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive and the Mineola Twins
by Paula Vogel, Paula How Learned to Drive Vogel

ISBN 1559361441 (1-55936-144-1)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group

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Latest plays by the author of The Baltimore Waltz.
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Misanthrope: Ou L'atrabilaire Amoureux
by Moliere

ISBN 2038716684 (2-03-871668-4)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc

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Comment Alceste, qui n'aime que la vérité, la sincérité, la droiture, lui qui est la rigidité faite homme, comment a-t-il pu s'éprendre de Célimène, qui représente tout ce qu'il déteste : l'hypocrisie, la légèreté, le persiflage, les apparences ? Il a pourtant bien succombé aux charmes de la jeune veuve, et voudrait qu'elle ne se consacre qu'à lui, qu'elle renonce à cette mondanité qu'il hait tant. Évidemment, elle n'en a aucunement l'intention : c'est tout l'enjeu de la pièce, qui orchestre le spectacle des bassesses, des manoeuvres, mais surtout des faiblesses des deux protagonistes. Difficile alors de dire qui a tort et qui a raison...
Pièce à part, avec Dom Juan, dans la production de Molière, Le Misanthrope reste une comédie, mais une comédie grinçante, qui fait tomber les masques et constitue une peinture sur le vif de la nature humaine. C'est sans doute pour cela que les plus grands metteurs en scène ont voulu s'attaquer à cette pièce et les plus grands comédiens se mesurer à ses rôles. --Karla Manuele [via]

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The Physicists
by Friedrich Durrenmatt

ISBN 0802150888 (0-8021-5088-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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The worlds greatest physicist, Johann Wilhelm Möbius, is in a madhouse, haunted by recurring visions of King Solomon. He is kept company by two other equally deluded scientists: one who thinks he is Einstein, another who believes he is Newton. It soon becomes evident, however, that these three are not as harmlessly lunatic as they appear. Are they, in fact, really mad? Or are they playing some murderous game, with the world as the stake? For Möbius has uncovered the mystery of the universeand therefore the key to its destructionand Einstein and Newton are vying for this secret that would enable them to rule the earth.
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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe
by Christopher Marlowe

ISBN 0192504789 (0-19-250478-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tell
by George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, W.J. Mc Cormack

ISBN 0140437940 (0-14-043794-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Plays Pleasant (1898) comprises four comedies intended to amuse audiences but also to provoke them. Arms and the Man, set in the Balkan mountains, satirizes the romantic view of war and military heroism. Candida presents the complicated relationship between a vicar, his wife, and her young admirer. You Never Can Tell is a light, witty look at an aging suffragette and her family. The Man of Destiny features Napoleon Bonaparte at odds with English mores.

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The Reduced Shakespeare Company's the Complete Works of William Shakespeare
by Daniel Singer, Jess Borgeson, Adam Long, John M. Winfield

ISBN 1557831572 (1-55783-157-2)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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The School for Scandal
by Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan

ISBN 1419181556 (1-4191-8155-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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"The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upper class society in the late 1700s. Often referred to as a "comedy of manners", "The School for Scandal" is one Sheridan's most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama. [via]

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The School for Scandal: ISBN 1420927159 (1-4209-2715-9)
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The School for Scandal: ISBN 0582331498 (0-582-33149-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

The School for Scandal: ISBN 0882950924 (0-88295-092-4)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson

The School for Scandal: ISBN 0199110085 (0-19-911008-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

The School for Scandal: ISBN 0393900436 (0-393-90043-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

The School for Scandal: ISBN 0393900770 (0-393-90077-0)
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The School for Scandal: ISBN 0812001559 (0-8120-0155-9)
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The School for Scandal
by David Crane, Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan

ISBN 0713642599 (0-7136-4259-9)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl

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This classic comedy of manners portrays intrigue, gossip, and social climbing among the leisure class of 1770s London and explores the deceptive guises of society and fickle nature of reputations.
Middle-aged and a wealthy bachelor, Sir Peter Teazle marries a young and beautiful daughter of a country squire. The School for Scandal socialites fill their days with the dissemination of malicious gossip with the consequences of destroyed reputations and marriages held out as pure entertainment. Lady Teazle is welcomed to their circle by becoming the object of nasty rumors and suggestions of an adulterous affair.
Playwright Sheridan skewers the London elite in this clever farce as he reveals the hypocrisy behind the human tendency to gossip and deceive.
The play was an enormous success during its first staging in 1777 and credited as a "real comedy" in contrast to the sentimental dramas that dominated the stage at the time.
Sheridans witty dialogue rivals that of the Restorations best playwrights, and his character names are aptly outrageous: Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Candour, Benjamin Backbite and Mrs. Malaprop.
This edition also includes an article by Dr. David Cross on The School of Scandals original staging and performance requirements.
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School for Scandal, The
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

ISBN 1404331905 (1-4043-3190-5)
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The School for Scandal, 1780
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

ISBN 0854171703 (0-85417-170-3)
Hardcover, Scolar P.

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Six Degrees of Separation
by John Guare

ISBN 0679734813 (0-679-73481-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners.

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Six Degrees of Separation: ISBN 0822210347 (0-8222-1034-7)
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Six Degrees of Separation: ISBN 067940161X (0-679-40161-X)
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Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II
by Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmusse N

ISBN 0192827375 (0-19-282737-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two.
Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. [via]

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Top Girls
by Caryl Churchill

ISBN 0413554805 (0-413-55480-5)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd

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The dialectic of Top Girls is wide-ranging, covering universal dilemmas facing women, but focuses on major themes of contemporary life. The critique of feminist ambitions is a clear central theme and Churchill's selection of women from the past and modern world shows sympathy for the feminist cause and disdain for the male oppressor, but there is no sentimentality an no comfortable solution is offered for their problems.
Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel painting, led a crowd of women on a charge through hell; Pope Joan - the transvestite early female pope and last but not least Patient Griselda, an obedient wife out of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. As the evening continues we are involved with the stories of all five women and the impending crisis in Marlene's own life. A classic of contemporary theatre, Churchill's play is seen as a landmark for a new generation of playwrights. It was premiered by the Royal Court in 1982.

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Top Girls: Actor's Script Version
by Caryl Churchill

ISBN 0573630232 (0-573-63023-2)
Softcover, Samuel French Trade

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Serious Comedy / Castin: 7f. with doubling / Ints.
Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her co workers, clients and relatives. Marlene, like her famous guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male oppressor and even coaches female clients on adopting odious male traits. Marlene has also abandoned her illegitimate and dull witted daughter. Her emotional and sexual life has become as barren as Lady Macbeth's.
"A blistering yet sympathetic look at women who achieve success by adopting the worse traits of self made men.... Truly original." N.Y. Times.
"Very funny and provocative.... A mind lifting experience." N.Y. Post. [via]

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The Tragedie of Cymbeline, King of Britaine
by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman

ISBN 1557833184 (1-55783-318-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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If there has ever 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. Prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British Columbia. [via]

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A View from the Bridge
by Arthur Miller

ISBN 0140481354 (0-14-048135-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." -Frank Rich, The New York Times
In A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller explores the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate. Eddie Carbone is a Brooklyn longshoreman, a hard-working man whose life has been soothingly predictable. He hasn't counted on the arrival of two of his wife's relatives, illegal immigrants from Italy; nor has he recognized his true feelings for his beautiful niece, Catherine. And in due course, what Eddie doesn't know-about her, about life, about his own heart-will have devastating consequences.
"The play has moments of intense power. . . . Miller plays on the audience with the skill of a master." -Clive Barnes, New York Post
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Le Cid
by Corneille

ISBN 2290335398 (2-290-33539-8)
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L'histoire de Rodrigue et Chimène est bien connue : tout concourt au bonheur des deux amants, jusqu'à ce que Rodrigue accepte, question d'honneur, de se battre en duel contre le père de Chimène. Vaincu, il perd la vie ; vainqueur, il perd Chimène, donc la vie. L'essence du dilemme cornélien tient en ces quelques mots, et c'est tout l'art de Corneille que d'inventer une issue à cette tragédie en apparence inextricable.
Mais Le Cid, c'est aussi un scandale retentissant - on accuse la pièce d'invraisemblance - et un triomphe inouï. Il faut imaginer la querelle : tout Paris amoureux de Chimène, tout Paris se consumant pour Rodrigue, des auteurs en colère, l'Académie prise à partie et Corneille aux anges : quel bruit, mais quel succès !
Il n'en restera pas là : aux admirateurs des dilemmes tragiques et des amours impossibles, il donnera Cinna, Horace et Polyeucte. Seul le talent d'un Racine, une génération plus tard, parviendra à faire de l'ombre au vieux maître de la tragédie. --Karla Manuele [via]

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Le Cid
by Larousse Staff

ISBN 203871620X (2-03-871620-X)
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Huis Clos et Les Mouches
by Jean-Paul Sartre

ISBN 2070368076 (2-07-036807-6)
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Où sont les pals, les grils, les entonnoirs de cuir ? n, tout cet attirail mythique dont on meuble l'enfer ? Il n'y a que des sièges démodés dans la pièce banale qui accueille suc-cessivement Garcin, Inès et Estelle. Ils ne s'y trompent pas, chacun d'eux a mérité la damnation. Pour invisibles qu'ils soient, les instruments de leur supplice existent. Quels sont--ils ?... Alors se déroule l'hallucinant Huis clos. Le remords ronge le coeur des habitants d'Argos, comme Les Mouches, omniprésentes dans la cité, harcelèrent leur ores. Depuis 15 ans, ils expient dans les larmes le crime Ecilsthe et de Clytemnestre - et ce spectacle plaît à Jupiter. a tuant les meurtriers de son père, Oreste a le choix Y repentir, ce qui lui vaudra la clémence divine, ou assumer un acte et attirer sur sa tête le déchaînement des Furies. Le rideau tombe sur Oreste entraînant avec lui les Mouches. Huis clos, Les Mouches : deux illustrations dramatiques célèbres de l'existentialisme sartrien. [via]

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Der Menschenfeind: Komodie in Funf Akten
by Moliere

ISBN 3150003946 (3-15-000394-6)
Hardcover, Reclam

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