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The Acharniansby AristophanesISBN 0140442871 (0-14-044287-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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All's Well That Ends Wellby William Shakespeare, Claire Elizabeth McEachern, Claire McEachemISBN 014071460X (0-14-071460-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All's Well That Ends Well'Book summary:240pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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- All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0192836048 (0-19-283604-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0451530012 (0-451-53001-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0140707204 (0-14-070720-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0140714308 (0-14-071430-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0174435835 (0-17-443583-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0192814591 (0-19-281459-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0415026792 (0-415-02679-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0416496105 (0-416-49610-5)
Softcover, Chapman & Hall - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0451522613 (0-451-52261-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 014071460X (0-14-071460-X)
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- All's Well That Ends Well: ISBN 0192836048 (0-19-283604-8)
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Antigoneby Jean Anouilh, Barbara BrayISBN 0413695409 (0-413-69540-9)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antigone'Book summary:[via]Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas, which exploit fantasy, tragic passion, scenic poetry and cosmic leaps in time and space. Antigone, his best-known play, was performed in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Paris and provoked fierce controversy. In his allegorical tale, Antigone defies the tyrant Creon and is sent to her death. Antigone conveyed to Anouilh's compatriots a covert message of heroic resistance to Nazi occupation; but the author's characterisaation of Creon also seemed to exonerate Marshal Petain and his fellow collaborators. More ambivalent than his ancient model, Sophocles, Anouilh uses Greek myth to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of our times.
Commentary and notes by Ted Freeman.
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Aristotle: Poeticsby D.W. LucasISBN 019814024X (0-19-814024-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Aristotle's on the Art of Poetryby AristotleISBN 0198141106 (0-19-814110-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's on the Art of Poetry'Book summary:This book, "Aristotle, On the art of poetry (1920)", by Aristotle, Bywater, Ingram, 1840-1914, Murray Gilbert, is a replication of a book originally published before 1920. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature. [via]
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, James HuttonISBN 0393952169 (0-393-95216-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's Poetics'Book summary:A work of transcendent importance, both for the history of literary criticism and in its own right[via] -
The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Informationby Paul Carter, George ChiangISBN 0911747397 (0-911747-39-7)
Softcover, Broadway Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information'Book summary:First published in 1988, Backstage Handbook is one of the most widely used stagecraft textbooks in the United States, with about 10,000 copies sold every year.
This handy reference book brings together under one cover an incredible variety of information useful to designers, technicians and students who work behind the scenes in theatre, film and television. Its sturdy leatherette binding will stand up to years of constant use.
The third edition updates this popular reference book with new terminology and materials, and adds dozens of new illustrations of grip hardware, film lighting equipment and painting tools. Backstage Handbook includes chapters on Tools, Hardware, Materials, Electrics, Shop Math, Architecture and Theatre. There are hundreds of illustrations, tables and charts which cover everything from the stock sizes and specs of wood screws, to safe working loads for several kinds of rope, to illustrations of twenty-two types of standard lamp bases. [via]More editions of The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information:
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Softcover, Broadway Pr - The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information: ISBN 0911747397 (0-911747-39-7)
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- The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information: ISBN 0911747095 (0-911747-09-5)
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Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poemsby Mark Thornton BurnettISBN 0460879952 (0-460-87995-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems'Book summary: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 Playsby Christopher MarloweISBN 0460879871 (0-460-87987-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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The Complete Playsby Robert Lindsey, Christopher Marlowe, Frank RomanyISBN 0140436332 (0-14-043633-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Coriolanusby William ShakespeareISBN 1853262854 (1-85326-285-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coriolanus'Book summary:Philip Brockbank was Director of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham in England from 1979-1988, and General Editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare from 1984-1990. He wrote On Shakespeare: Jesus, Shakespeare and Karl Marx, and Other Essays and edited Players of Shakespeare 1: Essays in Shakespearean Performance. His other publications include The Creativity of Perception: Essays in the Genesis of Literature and Art and Urban Mysteries of the Renaissance: Shakespeare and Carpaccio.The Arden Shakespeare edition of Coriolanus includes a detailed introduction to the text of the play, including the original printing, language and grammar, lineation, act and scene structure, stage-directions, and anomalies of the text, some of which are thought to indicate editorial intervention in the printing process. Further analysis of the play's content covers the accepted date of composition and historical context for that time, sources, a discussion of tragedy, language, and a description of the play as it was produced on Shakespeare's stage and has been produced in the theater in its afterlife. Two appendices follow The Tragedy of Coriolanus: "The Life of Caius Martius Coriolanus" from Plutarch's Lives, and an extract from Camden's Remaines.[via]The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader. -
De Arte Poetica Liberby Aristotle, Rudolf V. KasselISBN 0198145640 (0-19-814564-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Doctor Faustus and Other Playsby Christopher Marlowe, David Bevington, Eric Rasmusse NISBN 0192834452 (0-19-283445-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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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Euripides' Medeaby Anthony PodleckiISBN 0941051102 (0-941051-10-2)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripides' Medea'Book summary:This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture. [via]
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, A. S. Byatt, David ConstantineISBN 0140449019 (0-14-044901-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Goethe's classic, enlivened by Randall Jarrell's fine translation and Peter Sís's dark, dreamy illustrations[via]
Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook--"Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest")--and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he died, and the few lines that remained untouched--"Gretchen's Room"--were rendered into English by Robert Lowell.
This elegant new edition features numerous beautiful line drawings and jacket lettering by the renowned Czech artist Peter Sís, author of the award-winning books Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei and Tibet: Through the Red Box.More editions of Faust:
- Faust: ISBN 0374527865 (0-374-52786-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Faust: ISBN 0140440127 (0-14-044012-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Faust: ISBN 0192816667 (0-19-281666-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Faust: ISBN 0192510401 (0-19-251040-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Faust: ISBN 0140449019 (0-14-044901-9)
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- Faust: ISBN 0374527865 (0-374-52786-5)
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Faustby Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0300056567 (0-300-05656-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Perhaps some apology ought to be given to English scholars, that is, those who do not know German, (to those, at least, who do not know what sort of a thing Faust is in the original,) for offering another translation to the public, of a poem which has been already translated, not only in a literal prose form, but also, twenty or thirty times, in metre, and sometimes with great spirit, beauty, and power.
The author of the present version, then, has no knowledge that a rendering of this wonderful poem into the exact and ever-changing metre of the original has, until now, been so much as attempted. To name only one defect, the very best versions which he has seen neglect to follow the exquisite artist in the evidently planned and orderly intermixing of male and female rhymes, i.e. rhymes which fall on the last syllable and those which fall on the last but one. Now, every careful student of the versification of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the vivacity of dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Faustby Randall Jarrell, Peter Sis, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0374164770 (0-374-16477-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Randall Jarrell's translation of Goethe's classic, illustrated with extraordinary new drawings by Peter Sis[via]
Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook: "Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest"), and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he died, and the few lines that remained untouched--Gretchen's Spinning Song--were rendered into English by Robert Lowell.
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Faust Part 1by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0192835955 (0-19-283595-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust Part 1'Book summary:This new translation, in rhymed verse, of goethe's faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of european literature--preserves the essence of goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the german ever achieved [via]
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Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and Other Identitiesby Anna Deavere SmithISBN 082221329X (0-8222-1329-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and Other Identities'Book summary:Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on current Black-White tensions as it is a work of drama. [via]
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Four Great Plays: A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builderby Henrick Ibsen, Alyssa HaradISBN 1416500383 (1-4165-0038-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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The Good Person of Szechwanby Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 1559702354 (1-55970-235-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Good Person of Szechwan: Mother Courage and Her Children, Fear and Misery 3rd Reichby Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Hugh RorrisonISBN 1559701897 (1-55970-189-7)
Softcover, Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
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The Good Woman of Setzuanby Bertolt Brecht, Eric BentleyISBN 0816635277 (0-8166-3527-7)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Look Back in Angerby John OsborneISBN 0140481753 (0-14-048175-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Look Back in Anger'Book summary:One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. Osborne's play changed the course of British theatre in the 1950s, and features the prototype "angry young man", Jimmy Porter. [via]
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Love's Labour's Lostby William Shakespeare, Peter HollandISBN 0140714774 (0-14-071477-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Labor's Lost'Book summary:Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics. In this new critical edition, Hibbard pays particular attention to this process of rehabilitation. Based on the quarto of 1598, and drawing on recent scholarly analysis, he proposes that the quarto goes back, probably by way of a "lost" quarto, to an authorial manuscript that represents the play in a state prior to "fair copy." He offers numerous original readings of difficult and disputed passages, and a helpful commentary to the play's scintillating language. [via]
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- Love's Labour's Lost: ISBN 0192838806 (0-19-283880-6)
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Softcover, Signet - Love's Labour's Lost: ISBN 0140707387 (0-14-070738-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr - Love's Labour's Lost: ISBN 0174435002 (0-17-443500-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Love's Labour's Lost: ISBN 0192819402 (0-19-281940-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Love's Labour's Lost: ISBN 0415026954 (0-415-02695-4)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Love's Labor's Lost: ISBN 0451522672 (0-451-52267-2)
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- Love's Labour's Lost: ISBN 0192838806 (0-19-283880-6)
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Lysistrataby Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith, Douglass ParkerISBN 0451527895 (0-451-52789-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lysistrata'Book summary:Aristophanes' great anti-war drama, with comedic overtones, glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Plays for Performance Series. [via]
M. Butterflyby David Henry HwangISBN 0822207125 (0-8222-0712-5)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Medeaby Euripides, Edward P. ColeridgeISBN 1420926446 (1-4209-2644-6)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:A play of psychologically and physically murderous vengeance, Medea is one of the most powerful and perennially produced of all ancient drama. [via]
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- Medea: ISBN 1566633214 (1-56663-321-4)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee - Medea: ISBN 1854591649 (1-85459-164-9)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books - Medea: ISBN 187025936X (1-870259-36-X)
Softcover, Oberon Books, Limited - Medea: ISBN 1566633206 (1-56663-320-6)
Hardcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R. - Medea: ISBN 1580493467 (1-58049-346-7)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc - Medea: ISBN 1420926446 (1-4209-2644-6)
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- Medea: ISBN 1566633214 (1-56663-321-4)
Medea: A New Versionby Brendan Kennelly, EuripidesISBN 1852241896 (1-85224-189-6)
Softcover, Bloodaxe Books
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Medea and Other Playsby Euripides, R. B. Rutherford, John N. DavieISBN 0140449299 (0-14-044929-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea and Other Plays'Book summary:Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.[via]
@GoldenFarce Good, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line!
When he gets home well talk. Im sure we can work it out. But whats the best way to approach this? Any advice, anyone? #wackrelationships
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Medea and Other Playsby Philip Vellacott, EuripidesISBN 0140441298 (0-14-044129-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea and Other Plays'Book summary:Euripides was a brilliant and powerful innovator within the traditional framework of Attic drama. The last of the three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversial, Euripides was the first playwright to use the chorus as a commentator; the first to put contemporary language into the mouths of heroes; and the first to interpret human suffering without reference to the wisdom of gods. The four plays in this volume all show Euripides to have been a man defiant of established beliefs, and preoccupied with the dichotomy between instinctive and civilized behaviour. And his daring interpretations of ancient myths are enhanced by his brilliance as a lyricist, for Euripides' choral odes are among the most beautiful ever written. Reading plays such as these, it is not difficult to appreciate Aristotle's admiration of him as the most 'tragic' of the Greek poets. @GoldenFarce Good, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line! When he gets home we'll talk. I'm sure we can work it out. But what's the best way to approach this? Any advice, anyone? #wackrelationships From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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Murder in the Cathedralby T. S. EliotISBN 0156632772 (0-15-663277-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in the Cathedral'Book summary:T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time. [via]
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Night Motherby Marsha NormanISBN 0822208210 (0-8222-0821-0)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Mother'Book summary:This play tells the powerful story of an epileptic woman in her early 40s systematically preparing her own death - and the frantic and touching eff o rts of her mother to stop her. This searing drama, which won the Pulitzer Prize on Broadway, is guaranteed to keep any listener on the edge of their seat.
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Sharon Gless, Katherine Helmond [via]
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On Poetry and Styleby AristotleISBN 0023485000 (0-02-348500-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Plays of Christopher Marloweby Christopher MarloweISBN 0192504789 (0-19-250478-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Poeticsby Aristotle, Malcolm HeathISBN 0140446362 (0-14-044636-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetics'Book summary:[via]The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy
In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the Poetics introduces into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis (imitation), hamartia (error), and katharsis (purification). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals, centring on characters of heroic stature, idealized yet true to life. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, the Poetics has informed serious thinking about drama ever since.
Malcolm Heaths lucid English translation makes the Poetics fully accessible to the modern reader. It is accompanied by an extended introduction, which discusses the key concepts in detail and includes suggestions for further reading.
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Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine Hansberry, Robert NemiroffISBN 0452267765 (0-452-26776-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raisin in the Sun'Book summary:"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."
"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. [via]More editions of Raisin in the Sun:
- Raisin in the Sun: ISBN 0451137469 (0-451-13746-9)
Softcover, Signet Eclipse - Raisin in the Sun: ISBN 0451161378 (0-451-16137-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library - A Raisin in the Sun: ISBN 0375508333 (0-375-50833-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Raisin in the Sun: ISBN 0452267765 (0-452-26776-5)
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- Raisin in the Sun: ISBN 0451137469 (0-451-13746-9)
A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: And, the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Windowby Lorraine Hansberry, Robert NemiroffISBN 0452259428 (0-452-25942-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Raisin in the Sun; A Drama in Three Actsby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0394406885 (0-394-40688-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Raisin in the Sun; A Drama in Three Acts'Book summary:"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."
"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. [via]More editions of A Raisin in the Sun; A Drama in Three Acts:
Saint Joanby Bernard Shaw, Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140450238 (0-14-045023-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Saint Joanby Stanley Weintraub, Bernard ShawISBN 0140437916 (0-14-043791-6)
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The Stage Management Handbookby Daniel A. IonazziISBN 1558702350 (1-55870-235-0)
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Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward IIby Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmusse NISBN 0192827375 (0-19-282737-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II'Book summary: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]More editions of Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II:
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The Theatre of the Absurdby Martin EsslinISBN 1400075238 (1-4000-7523-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Theatre of the Absurd'Book summary:In 1953, Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponentsBeckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and othersshattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition.
Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslins landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Becketts tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre.
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Three Plays: Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernada Albaby Federico Garcia Lorca, Carmen Zapata, Michael Dewell, Chirstopher MaurerISBN 0374523320 (0-374-52332-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Plays: Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernarda Alba'Book summary:In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for the stage. The result, both performable and readable, has been thoroughly revised for this edition, which is introduced by Christopher Maurer, general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.[via]More editions of Three Plays: Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernada Alba:
Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electraby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0394701658 (0-394-70165-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmakerby Thornton Wilder, John GuareISBN 0060512644 (0-06-051264-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker'Book summary:This omnibus volume brings together the definitive texts of three outstanding plays by one of America's most distinguished writers. Thronton Wilder was equally prolific and successful as a dramatist and novelist. Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) were each awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The Matchmaker (1955) was originally staged as The Merchant of Yonkers (1938) and later appeared as a hit musical, Hello Dolly! (1964). [via]
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Three Tragedies [of] Federico Garcia Lorcaby Federico Garcia LorcaISBN 014048020X (0-14-048020-X)
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The Threepenny Operaby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0413390306 (0-413-39030-6)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Threepenny Opera: Methuen Student Editionby Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 041377452X (0-413-77452-X)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Threepenny Opera: Methuen Student Edition'Book summary:This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.[via]
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars and is intent on having Macheaf hanged. Despite the resistance by Macheaf's friend the Chief of Police, Macheaf is eventually condemned to hang, until in a comic reversal the queen pardons him and grants him a title and land. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world.
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992by Anna Deavere SmithISBN 0822218410 (0-8222-1841-0)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Editionby Eve EnslerISBN 0375756981 (0-375-75698-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition'Book summary:"I say vagina because I want people to respond," says playwright Eve Ensler, creator of the hilarious, disturbing soliloquies in The Vagina Monologues, a book based on her one-woman play. And respond they do--with horror, anger, censure, and sparks of wonder and pleasure. Ensler is on a fervent mission to elevate and celebrate this much mumbled-about body part. She asked hundreds of women of all ages a series of questions about their vaginas (What do you call it? How would you dress it?) that prompt some wondrous answers. Standouts among the euphemisms are tamale, split knish, choochi snorcher, Gladys Siegelman--Gladys Siegelman?--and, of course, that old standby "down there." "Down there?" asks a composite character springing from several older women. "I haven't been down there since 1953. No, it had nothing to do with [American president] Eisenhower." Two of the most powerful pieces include a jagged poem stitched together from the memories of a Bosnian woman raped by soldiers and an American woman sexually abused as a child who reclaims her vagina as a place of wild joy. [via]
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