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Abigail's PartyISBN 0573110166 (0-573-11016-6)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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The Absence of War : A Playby David HareISBN 0571170714 (0-571-17071-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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Absurd Person Singularby Alan AyckbournISBN 0573010234 (0-573-01023-4)
Softcover, French
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The Actor's Scenebookby Michael Schulman, Eva MeklerISBN 0553243489 (0-553-24348-9)
Softcover, Bantam
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The Actor's Scenebook: Scenes and Monologues from Contemporary Playsby Michael SchulmanISBN 0553263668 (0-553-26366-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Aristotle: Poeticsby AristotleISBN 0472061666 (0-472-06166-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Aristotle Poeticsby S.H. ButcherISBN 0486200426 (0-486-20042-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Asian Plays: Fanshen, Saigon, a Map of the Worldby David HareISBN 0571139906 (0-571-13990-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeareby Isaac Asimov, Rafael PalaciosISBN 0517268256 (0-517-26825-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Asking Around: Background to the David Hare Trilogyby David Hare, Lyn HaillISBN 0571170633 (0-571-17063-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asking Around: Background to the David Hare Trilogy'Book summary:The candid interviews that formed the basis for David Hare's famed trilogy of plays about the state of Britain in the early 1990s.[via]
Asking Around is a record of the firsthand documentary research that provided the inspiration and source material for David Hare's trilogy of plays, Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, and The Absence of War. The trilogy examined the crises that faced three great British institutions -- the Church, the Law, and the Labour Party -- in the lead-up to the 1992 election that saw the Labour Party once again fail to defeat the Conservatives.
Conducted over five years, Hare's interviews are composed of informal conversations with a wide range of people -- from unhappy vicars and police officers forced to put down strikes staged by their childhood fris, to judges and MPs -- most of whom reveal a surprising awareness of and cynicism about the principles of their organizations. Priests admit to essentially being social workers with no time for questions of faith, wardens tell of inmates who boast of surviving certain prisons, and politicians and journalists reveal what really goes on in policy meetings. These interviews constitute astute social criticism in the words of the people and, taken together, provide an insightful portrait of Britain in the early nineties.More editions of Asking Around: Background to the David Hare Trilogy:
Beaumarchais: The Figaro Playsby John LeighISBN 0460879235 (0-460-87923-5)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Best Plays of the Modern American Theatreby John GassnerISBN 0517509482 (0-517-50948-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Breath of Lifeby David HareISBN 0571215939 (0-571-21593-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0486266893 (0-486-26689-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candideby Shane Weller, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0486276252 (0-486-27625-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Comediansby Trevor GriffithsISBN 0571049869 (0-571-04986-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Comedies of William Congreveby Anthony G. HendersonISBN 0521289327 (0-521-28932-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Complete Dramatic Worksby Samuel BeckettISBN 0571144861 (0-571-14486-1)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetesby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571162304 (0-571-16230-4)
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David Hare: Plays 1 Slag, Teeth 'N' Smiles, Knuckle, Licking Hitler, and Plentyby David HareISBN 0571177417 (0-571-17741-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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Day in the Death of Joe Eggby Peter NicholsISBN 0571083692 (0-571-08369-2)
Softcover, Faber Paperbacks
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg: A Playby Peter NicholsISBN 0573010846 (0-573-01084-6)
Hardcover, French
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Death in Venice and Other Storiesby Thomas MannISBN 0553213334 (0-553-21333-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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All seven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but it is Death in Venice that truly forms the centerpiece of the collection. The themes that Mann weaves through the shorter pieces come to a climax in this stunning novella, one of the most hauntingly magnificent tales of art and self-destruction ever written. [via]More editions of Death in Venice and Other Stories:
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0520027124 (0-520-02712-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture.
"If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-Tribune
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The Dog It Was That Died and Other Playsby Tom StoppardISBN 0571131832 (0-571-13183-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Dogg's Hamlet ; Cahoot's Macbethby Tom StoppardISBN 057111573X (0-571-11573-X)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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An Enemy of the Peopleby Henrik IbsenISBN 0486406571 (0-486-40657-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Enter a Free Manby Tom StoppardISBN 0571087949 (0-571-08794-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Fat Pigby Neil LabuteISBN 057121150X (0-571-21150-X)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Centuryby Adrienne ScullionISBN 0460877291 (0-460-87729-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Five Comediesby Fidelis Morgan, Paddy LyonsISBN 0460870807 (0-460-87080-7)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Five Comediesby Paddy Lyons, Fidelis MorganISBN 0460874276 (0-460-87427-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Five Comedies'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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The Feverby Wallace ShawnISBN 0571161952 (0-571-16195-2)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Fifteen Minute Hamlet: A Playby Tom Stoppard, William Hamlet ShakespeareISBN 0573025061 (0-573-02506-1)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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The Figaro Playsby Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, John Leigh, John WellsISBN 0460878581 (0-460-87858-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Five Great Plays of ShakespeareISBN 0486278921 (0-486-27892-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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A Flea in Her Earby Georges FeydeauISBN 0573011486 (0-573-01148-6)
Hardcover, French
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Four Tragediesby William ShakespeareISBN 0553212834 (0-553-21283-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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One of the most famous plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the young prince of Denmark who must reconcile his longing for oblivion with his duty to avenge his fathers murder is one of Shakespeares greatest works. The ghost, Ophelias death and burial, the play within a play, and the breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet a masterpiece of the theater.
Othello
This great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor. The doomed marriage of Desdemona to the Moor Othello is the focus of a storm of tension, incited by the consummately evil villain Iago, that culminates in one of the most deeply moving scenes in theatrical history.
King Lear
Here is the famous and moving tragedy of a king who foolishly divides his kingdom between his two wicked daughters and estranges himself from the young daughter who loves hima theatrical spectacle of outstanding proportions.
Macbeth
No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this brilliant and bloody tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his masculinity by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters prophecy and kill his kingand thus, seals his own doom.
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" Comprehensive explanatory notes
" Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship
" Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English
" Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories
" An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography [via]More editions of Four Tragedies:
Frank McGuiness Plays 1 : The Factory Girls; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards...by Frank McGuinessISBN 0571177409 (0-571-17740-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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Frozenby Bryony LaveryISBN 0571211291 (0-571-21129-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Guards! Guards!: The Playby Stephen BriggsISBN 0552144312 (0-552-14431-2)
Softcover, Transworld Pub
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If You're Glad I'll Be Frankby Tom StoppardISBN 0571111025 (0-571-11102-5)
Hardcover, Faber
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Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 0486442888 (0-486-44288-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Jew of Maltaby Christopher Marlowe, Havelock EllisISBN 0486431843 (0-486-43184-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Juvenal Bk. 1 : Satiresby Susanna Morton Braund, P. E. Easterling, Philip Hardie, Richard Hunter, JuvenalISBN 0521356679 (0-521-35667-9)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juvenal Bk. 1 : Satires'Book summary:This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. In the Introduction Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and demonstrates his originality in creating an angry character who declaims in the "grand style." The Commentary illuminates the content and style of Satires 1-5. The essays on each of the poems together with the overview of Book I in the Introduction present the first integrated reading of these Satires as an organic structure. [via]
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The Knight of the Burning Pestleby Francis Beaumont, Michael HattawayISBN 0510332013 (0-510-33201-3)
Hardcover, Benn
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Lower Depthsby Maksim Gorky, Jenny CovanISBN 048641115X (0-486-41115-X)
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The Master Builderby Henrik IbsenISBN 0486419282 (0-486-41928-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master Builder'Book summary:One of the Norwegian playwright's most mysterious, symbolic, and lyrical dramas explores the life of architect Halvard Solness, once ruthlessly ambitious, but who, in his later years, not only feels threatened by the younger generation but also fears the decay of his own creativity. A tragic end for one of the most fascinating characters in modern drama.[via]More editions of The Master Builder:
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Medeaby Euripides, Donald J. MastronardeISBN 0521643864 (0-521-64386-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries,including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Medea is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation and Drama. Useful features include full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Medea is aimed primarily at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America. [via]
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Menaechmiby Titus MacCius Plautus, A.S. GratwickISBN 0521349702 (0-521-34970-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Menaechmi'Book summary:Plautus' comedy Menaechmi was the main inspiration for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. In this edition Dr. Gratwick provides a newly constituted text, a commentary for students giving help with language and context, and an introduction that sheds new light on the interpretation of the play and on Plautus' place in the development of European comedy. Central to Dr. Gratwick's treatment is an analysis of the various meters employed by Plautus, which challenges many conventional views but also offers the student practical assistance with the technical problems involved. [via]
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Moliere's Tartuffe or the Impostorby Christopher HamptonISBN 0571133584 (0-571-13358-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Mountain Languageby Harold PinterISBN 0571154131 (0-571-15413-1)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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My Zinc Bed : A Playby David HareISBN 0571205747 (0-571-20574-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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Night and Dayby Tom StoppardISBN 0571113737 (0-571-11373-7)
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No Sex, Please - We're Britishby Anthony Marriott, Alistair FootISBN 0573013098 (0-573-01309-8)
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Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Sommeby Frank McGuinnessISBN 0571146112 (0-571-14611-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Oedipus at Colonus: Sophoclesby Sophocles, George YoungISBN 0486406598 (0-486-40659-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 055327824X (0-553-27824-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Mice and Men'Book summary:Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, offers a powerful but tragic tale in "Of Mice and Men". 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land of their own and settle down some place. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength. Seen by others as a threat, he finds it impossible to control his emotions. And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble. "Of Mice and Men" is a tragic and moving story of friendship, loneliness and the dispossessed. "A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick". ("New York Times"). Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works are published by Penguin and include "Cannery Row", "The Pearl", "The Winter of Our Discontent" and "The Grapes of Wrath". [via]
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Outskirts and Other Plays: The King and Me/Outskirts/Borderline/Birds of Passageby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571163076 (0-571-16307-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Plays for the Theatre: A Drama Anthologyby Oscar G. Brockett, Robert J. BallISBN 0495095826 (0-495-09582-6)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Plays for the Theatre With Infotrac: A Drama Anthologyby Robert J. Ball, Oscar Gross BrockettISBN 0534577865 (0-534-57786-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Plays Threeby Harold PinterISBN 0571193838 (0-571-19383-8)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Poems and Playsby Oliver Goldsmith, Tom DavisISBN 0460873903 (0-460-87390-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Poeticsby Aristotle, S.H. ButcherISBN 048629577X (0-486-29577-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Pygmalion and Major Barbaraby George Bernard ShawISBN 055321408X (0-553-21408-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion and Major Barbara'Book summary:George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter.
In one of his best-loved plays, Pygmalion, which later became the basis for the musical My Fair Lady, Shaw compels the audience to see the utter absurdity and hypocrisy of class distinction when Professor Henry Higgins wagers that he can transform a common flower girl into a ladyand then pass her off as a duchesssimply by changing her speech and manners.
In Major Barbara Shaw spins out the drama of an eccentric millionaire, a romantic poet, and a misguided savior of souls, Major Barbara herself, in a topsy-turvy masterpiece of sophisticated banter and urbane humor. His brilliant dialogue, combined with his use of paradox and socialist theory, never fails to tickle, entertainand challenge. [via]More editions of Pygmalion and Major Barbara:
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The Recognition of Sakuntalaby Kalidasa, Rabindranath Tagore, Arthur W. RyderISBN 048643169X (0-486-43169-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Recognition of Sakuntala'Book summary:Written by the greatest of the ancient Indian playwrights, this 5th-century work of Sanskrit drama offers a classic introduction to Indian theater and aesthetics. A king encounters a lovely maiden by chance, and the course of their passionate love sweeps the audience from a forest hermitage to a dazzling palace to ethereal celestial realms.[via]More editions of The Recognition of Sakuntala:
Royal Hunt of the Sun a Play Concerning the Concerning the Con Est of Peruby ShafferISBN 0573013888 (0-573-01388-8)
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Satires: With the Satires of Persiusby Juvenal, Richard Stoneman, John Warrington, William GiffordISBN 0460871714 (0-460-87171-4)
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The Shoemaker's Holidayby Thomas Dekker, D. J. PalmerISBN 051033721X (0-510-33721-X)
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The Singing Detectiveby Dennis PotterISBN 0571145906 (0-571-14590-6)
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Single Spies: A Double Billby Alan BennettISBN 0571141056 (0-571-14105-6)
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Someone Who'll Watch over Meby Frank McGuinnessISBN 0571168043 (0-571-16804-3)
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State of Revolution: A Playby Robert BoltISBN 0573114307 (0-573-11430-7)
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Strindberg's the Father and Ibsen's Hedda Gablerby John OsborneISBN 0571140661 (0-571-14066-1)
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Take Me Out: A Playby Richard GreenbergISBN 0571211186 (0-571-21118-6)
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Tales from Hollywoodby Christopher HamptonISBN 0571118836 (0-571-11883-6)
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Talk Radioby Eric BogosianISBN 0573600031 (0-573-60003-1)
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Tamburlaineby Christopher MarloweISBN 0486421252 (0-486-42125-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamburlaine'Book summary:From one of England's greatest playwrights, a remarkably inventive and poetically expressive work that set the form for later Elizabethan dramas. The 2-part romantic tragedy focuses on Tamburlaine a Mongol warrior whose relentless rise to greatness and power, together with his enormous greed and vanity, culminates in his eventual downfall.[via]More editions of Tamburlaine:
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Tartuffe and the Bourgeois Gentleman/Le Tartuffe Et Le Bourgeois Gentilhommeby Moliere, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486404382 (0-486-40438-2)
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Terry Pratchet's Maskeradeby Terry Pratchett, Stephen BriggsISBN 0573018294 (0-573-01829-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Terry Pratchet's Maskerade'Book summary:All is not well in Ankh-Morpork Opera House. A ghost stalks the corridors, leaving strange letters for the management and killing people. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investigate. This is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, "Maskerade". [via]
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The Tragedy of Mariam the Fair Queen of Jewry: With the Lady Falkland Her Lifeby Barry Weller, Margaret W. Ferguson, Elizabeth CaryISBN 0520079698 (0-520-07969-8)
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Twelve Playsby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 052593376X (0-525-93376-X)
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Wb Yeats Poems Selected by Seamus Heaneyby W. B. YeatsISBN 0571203787 (0-571-20378-7)
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What Every Woman Knowsby J. M. BarrieISBN 0486295788 (0-486-29578-8)
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William Butler Yeats : Selected Poemsby W. B. Yeats, E. DickinsonISBN 051707396X (0-517-07396-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Butler Yeats : Selected Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats was not only one of the most beloved and honored poets of this century. Playwright, essayist, theatrical impresario, occultist, politician, famously hapless lover--he was also one of the most colorful and complex. Astonishingly, no full biography of Yeats has appeared in many years. Now, Keith Alldritt gives us a lively telling of Yeats's story that puts the poet in the context of his times, from the high Victorian era to the modernism of the thirties.
Alldritt reveals that Yeats was not just "the sensitive introvert who began as the mooning dreamer and after a lifetime seeking philosophical and hermetic wisdom, ended as the learned sage" that Yeats himself and his biographers would have us believe. He shows us a less familiar man: "a dedicated careerist, an ambitious man of determined self-interest, a seeker after social standing, and a combative man with a violent temper that sustained him in many nasty quarrels." Confrontational, scrappy, driven, he was deeply involved in both the political and literary issues of his day. He was instrumental in overturning the English domination of Irish literature and in researching and publishing books on Irish lore and fairy tales. He was the founder, with George Bernard Shaw, of the Irish Institute of Arts and Letters as well as the Abbey Theatre, where he refused to close down Synge's inflammatory play The Playboy of the Western World, despite riots in the street. During his tenure as senator in the Irish Parliament, he fought the Catholic divorce laws. At every level, Alldritt shows us a poet engaged in the world.
Yeats's long, passionate, and physically unrequited love affair with the beautiful Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, which led to some of his most poignant poetry, is brought vividly to life. Also covered in some detail are Yeats's numerous love affairs in the years before his death. Though condoned by his wife, they have not been explored in previous biographies out of respect for her feelings.
Another aspect of Yeats not generally appreciated is his involvement with literary movements outside Ireland and England. He wrote reviews for the Boston Globe; lectured regularly throughout the United States; and spent much time in France, where he was influenced by the symbolist poets, and in Italy, where he joined the Rapallo group led by the quixotic Ezra Pound.
In his years of research, Alldritt visited libraries worldwide. He was given special access to Yeats's private papers in the National Library of Ireland and interviewed many people who knew or are knowledgeable about Yeats, most notably Yeats's daughter, Anne.
Yeats has been called "the greatest poetic imagination of our century." Now Keith Alldritt reveals another facet of his extraordinary persona.
William Butler Yeats was a master craftsman, and one of his most skillful constructs was his own image. He wished to be remembered, above all, as an Irishman and a poet; as a man whose nature had been determined by the almost magical qualities of his childhood in Sligo and whose character had been shaped by the influence of admirable men. There is truth in this depiction of himself, but it is a partial truth only.
In this account, I attempt to go beyond his interior world and to evoke and do justice to those individuals and external forces which in their turn made up part of the dialectic of Yeats's life. Yeats lived at a time of profound changes for the Western world from the high Victorianism of the late 1800s to the advent of modernism in the 1930s. I have attempted to offer a strong sense of Yeats in his social and historical context--to show that an important side of his genius was his deep and often manipulative relationship with the turbulent life around him as with his turbulent life within. [via]More editions of William Butler Yeats : Selected Poems:
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, and Other Playsby Ray BradburyISBN 0552672971 (0-552-67297-1)
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Euripides: Medeaby Donald J. MastronardeISBN 0521643651 (0-521-64365-1)
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