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3 Sistersby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0631149163 (0-631-14916-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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After the Fallby Arthur MillerISBN 0553117777 (0-553-11777-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Amadeus: A Dramaby Peter ShafferISBN 0573611696 (0-573-61169-6)
Softcover, Samuel French
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Anthony & Cleopatraby Barbara EverettISBN 0451519566 (0-451-51956-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Antigoneby SophoclesISBN 0486278042 (0-486-27804-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antigone'Book summary:In this new edition of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, Mark Griffith combines sophisticated literary and cultural interpretation with close attention to language, meter, and issues of performance, and thus makes the play more fully available to readers of Greek than ever before. The introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and will interest all students of drama and literature. [via]
Antigone of Sophoclesby Douglas BrownISBN 0521065259 (0-521-06525-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Antonin Artaud: Selected Writingsby Susan Sontag, Antonin ArtaudISBN 0520064437 (0-520-06443-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings'Book summary:A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art, and literature, and many letters. Susan Sontag's selection conveys the genius of this singular writer.[via]More editions of Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings:
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Adam FrostISBN 048640062X (0-486-40062-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:For this updated edition, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this play make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. The edition is attentive throughout to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. An updated reading list completes the edition. First Edition Hb (1990) 0-521-25256-3 First Edition Pb (1990) 0-521-27250-5 [via]
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- Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 052161287X (0-521-61287-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0521629047 (0-521-62904-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0553212893 (0-553-21289-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0582527430 (0-582-52743-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0521848334 (0-521-84833-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0415011035 (0-415-01103-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0415026806 (0-415-02680-6)
Softcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0460871811 (0-460-87181-1)
Softcover, Everymans Library - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0521094690 (0-521-09469-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0671039164 (0-671-03916-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0415011027 (0-415-01102-7)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0416472907 (0-416-47290-7)
Hardcover, Methuen - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 048640062X (0-486-40062-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
- Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 052161287X (0-521-61287-X)
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Antony and Cleopatraby David BevingtonISBN 0521272505 (0-521-27250-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:In this edition of the play David Bevington shows how the theatrical design and imaginative vision of Antony and Cleopatra make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. A substantial critical introduction synthesises the best criticism of the play and presents a fresh consideration of its erotic and political complexities. The edition is throughout attentive to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeare's shaping of his source material in Plutarch's Lives. [via]
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Antony and Cleopatraby Mary Berry, Michael ClampISBN 0521445841 (0-521-44584-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Antony and Cleopatra has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed. [via]
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Antony and Cleopatraby Maurice R. RidleyISBN 0416476309 (0-416-47630-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Partby Michael ShurtleffISBN 0553272950 (0-553-27295-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Becketby Frederic Raphael, Stephen RaphaelISBN 0413774929 (0-413-77492-9)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roofby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451171128 (0-451-17112-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'Book summary:The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of seething passions that beset a Southern family in a shattering moment of revelation. [via]
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The Cherry Orchardby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tom MurphyISBN 0413774031 (0-413-77403-1)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cherry Orchard'Book summary:Classic of world drama concerns the passing of the old semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. The work also showcases the great Russian writer's rich sensitivities as an observer of human nature. An inexpensive, high-quality edition, reprinted from a standard edition of the play.[via] 
Cherry Orchardby Anton Chekhov, David LanISBN 0413757803 (0-413-75780-3)
Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited
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The Cherry Orchardby Brian Woolland, Pam Gems, Tania Alexander, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0521576709 (0-521-57670-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cherry Orchard'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is translated by Pam Gems and edited by Brian Woolland, Department of Film and Drama, Reading University. [via]
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The Cherry Orchardby Michael Frayn, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0413393402 (0-413-39340-2)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cherry Orchard'Book summary:[via]In Chekhov's tragi-comedy, one of his most studied plays, the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live. When their estate is hopelessly in debt they are urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, a proposition which prompts a family struggle to act decisively.
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The Complete Playsby Aristophanes, Paul RocheISBN 0451214099 (0-451-21409-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Plays'Book summary:[via]A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist.
With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.
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Complete Plays: Blasted/Phaedra's Love/Cleansed/Crave/4.48 Psychosis/Skinby Sarah KaneISBN 0413742601 (0-413-74260-1)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Plays: Blasted/Phaedra's Love/Cleansed/Crave/4.48 Psychosis/Skin'Book summary:[via]When Sarah Kane's first play Blasted was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995 it was hailed both as a "masterpiece" and as a "disgusting piece of filth" (Daily Mail). That play, and the others that followed, have been produced all over the world. This anthology includes Kane's never-before-published Channel 4 screenplay, Skin.
Plays include: Blasted, Phaedra's Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis, and Skin.
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The Complete Plays of Aristophanesby AristophanesISBN 0553213431 (0-553-21343-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik Ibsen, Michael MeyerISBN 0413544702 (0-413-54470-2)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsen's genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of women's rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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- A Doll's House: ISBN 0486270629 (0-486-27062-9)
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Softcover, Cambridge University Press - A Doll's House: ISBN 0571191290 (0-571-19129-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - A Doll's House: ISBN 0413544702 (0-413-54470-2)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
- A Doll's House: ISBN 0486270629 (0-486-27062-9)
The Doll's House: A Playby Henrik Ibsen, Christopher HamptonISBN 0573608148 (0-573-60814-8)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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A Doll's House/the Wild Duck/the Lady from the Sea/3 Plays in 1 Volumeby Henrik IbsenISBN 0460872931 (0-460-87293-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Fencesby August WilsonISBN 0452264014 (0-452-26401-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fences'Book summary:Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a Negro from the major leagues during his prime, Troy's bitterness takes it's toll on his relationships with both his wife and son who now wants his own chance to play. "One of the great characters in American drama." - The New York Post "One of the richest experiences I have ever had in the theatre. I wasn't just moved. I was transfixed." - The New York Post "A blockbuster and a major American play." - New York Daily News [via]
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicideby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0553273256 (0-553-27325-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide'Book summary:For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf is a celebration of being black and being a woman. From its beginnings in California to its enormous success at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and on Broadway, this unique dramatic prose poem has amazed audiences everywhere with its power and grace, with the freshness of its language, with the fierce beauty of its message to the world. [via]
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Four Major Playsby Henrik IbsenISBN 0451524063 (0-451-52406-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Major Plays'Book summary: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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Graphologyby Thomas G. AylesworthISBN 053100323X (0-531-00323-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatreby Robertson Davies, Brenda Davies, Jennifer SurridgeISBN 0670880191 (0-670-88019-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre'Book summary:The following passage reveals Robertson Davies's great love of the theater, and it shows that these collected pieces, numbering 33, transcend mere criticism: "For as long as I can remember, playgoing has stood first among all pleasures with me, and although to most people it is simply a pastime, I think that I have brought qualities to it which raised it above that.... I sincerely believe that I have been a good playgoer, and that is something better, perhaps, than having been a well-known critic."
One's admiration for this literary master doubles when remembering that drama was Davies's academic field, and it constituted one of his three successful careers (he acted with the Old Vic in England). By 1962, Davies had begun to craft his playgoing notes into the Theatre Diary--snippets of which appear in this posthumously published collection. Each of these 33 pieces, introduced by the author and followed by a diary entry or two, demonstrates Davies's enormous and diverse erudition. Included are speeches, prologues to plays, articles about the theatre and opera, a discussion of folksong, a children's opera, a story set to music, and a preliminary sketch of a film script. Several personal essays shed light on his own ambitions as a playwright.
Many of these pieces were lectures, and they enjoy the immediacy and cadence of the spoken word. A spacious tone ensues; that is, complex ideas are delivered clearly, because they are intended for a listening audience. Surprisingly, this enhances the pleasure of reading them. Happy Alchemy may not appeal to the reader whose interest in theater and opera is only occasional but certainly will to any ardent Robertson Davies fan who delights in the turnings of a learned and sophisticated mind. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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Henry IV. Part 2by William ShakespeareISBN 055321294X (0-553-21294-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Inherit the Windby Jerome LawrenceISBN 0553254359 (0-553-25435-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Into the Woodsby Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Hudson TalbottISBN 0517570777 (0-517-57077-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Woods'Book summary:The Tony Award-winning musical,
now adapted into a lavishly illustrated book
"Into the Woods" is the imaginative account of what happens when the lives of new and old fairy-tale characters dramatically and humorously come together. Cinderella, Jack (of bean-stalk fame), Little Red Ridinghood, and the Baker and his Wife set out for the forest on a quest to find "happily ever after." Along the way they meet Rapunzel, a Wicked Witch, a lascivious Wolf, vengeful Giants, a couple of charming Princes, and their own destiny. With wit and wisdom, the authors have given us a parable about the loss of innocence, the joys and sorrows of adulthood, and the price paid for getting the things you really want. [via]
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King Henry IVby William Shakespeare, Norman Norwood HollandISBN 0451528530 (0-451-52853-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of Part One., Part Two is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that "I will turn diseases to commodity".
The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of Part One, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of Part Two. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of Part One. "I know thee not, old man" he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, Henry V. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- King Henry IV: ISBN 0521626889 (0-521-62688-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - King Henry IV: ISBN 0415026881 (0-415-02688-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - King Henry IV: ISBN 0451522532 (0-451-52253-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Second Part of King Henry IV: ISBN 0521276527 (0-521-27652-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press - Henry IV: ISBN 0451528530 (0-451-52853-0)
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Light Thickensby Ngaio MarshISBN 0425145298 (0-425-14529-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Lips Together, Teeth Apartby Terrence McNallyISBN 0452268079 (0-452-26807-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Master Harold & the Boysby Athol FugardISBN 0573640394 (0-573-64039-4)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the Roundabout Theatre's revival of this searing coming of age story, considered by many to be Fugard's masterpiece. A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate company of the two black waiters who work in his mother's tea room in Port Elizabeth learns that his viciously racist alcoholic father is on his way home from the hospital. An ensuing rage unwittingly triggers his inevitable passage into the culture of hatred fostered by apartheid.
"One of those depth charge plays [that] has lasting relevance [and] can triumphantly survive any test of time...The story is simple, but the resonance that Fugard brings to it lets it reach beyond the narrative, to touch so many nerves connected to betrayal and guilt. An exhilarating play...It is a triumph of playmaking, and unforgettable."-New York Post
"Fugard creates a blistering fusion of the personal and the political."-The New York Times
"This revival brings out [the play's] considerable strengths."-New York Daily News [via]
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The Misanthrope: Moliere Versionby Moliere, Martin CrimpISBN 0571179096 (0-571-17909-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Misanthrope: Moliere Version'Book summary: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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Misanthrope: Ou L'atrabilaire Amoureuxby MoliereISBN 0486270653 (0-486-27065-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Misanthrope: Ou L'atrabilaire Amoureux'Book summary: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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Monarch Notes on Sartre's No Exit, the Flies and Other Writingsby Leslie A. JuhaszISBN 0671005693 (0-671-00569-3)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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Oedipus Rexby SophoclesISBN 0486268772 (0-486-26877-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus Rex'Book summary:"Oedipus the King" (or, "Oedipus Rex") is probably Sophocles' most famous work, first performed about 429 B. C. It should be required reading for every college Freshman (or High School student). [via]
Peter Shaffer's Amadeusby Peter ShafferISBN 0451158946 (0-451-15894-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Plays Oneby Harold PinterISBN 0571178448 (0-571-17844-8)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom StoppardISBN 0571152465 (0-571-15246-5)
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Duck Variationsby David MametISBN 0573600414 (0-573-60041-4)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Six Characters in Search of an Authorby Luigi Pirandello, Joseph Farrell, John LinstrumISBN 0413772683 (0-413-77268-3)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Characters in Search of an Author'Book summary:Luigi Pirandello's masterpiece, "Six Characters in Search of an Author", presents the playwright's views about the isolation of the individual from society and from himself. This play within a play chronicles six characters as they seek an author to tell their story, and to present their real lives on stage. But do their realities make better tales than fiction?. [via]
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Six Characters in Search of an Author: ISBN 0413460304 (0-413-46030-4)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen - Six Characters in Search of an Author: ISBN 0413772683 (0-413-77268-3)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
- Six Characters in Search of an Author: ISBN 0451526880 (0-451-52688-0)
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Six Characters Looking for an Authorby Luigi PirandelloISBN 0413768104 (0-413-76810-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Characters Looking for an Author'Book summary:A new version of one of the most influential plays of the 20th century[via]
Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director and his company of actors listen as the characters begin to describe and argue over the key events of their lives&One of the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, Six Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty: where do we come from, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be?Six Characters Looking for an Author premiered at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in February 2000.
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Sophocles' Antigoneby Sophocles, Judith Affleck, P. E. EasterlingISBN 0521010721 (0-521-01072-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Strindberg: Five Playsby August Strindberg, Harry G. CarlsonISBN 0520046986 (0-520-04698-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strindberg: Five Plays'Book summary:Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed plays--The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and The Ghost Sonata--are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.[via]
Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japanby Jennifer Ellen RobertsonISBN 0520211510 (0-520-21151-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Three by Tennessee: Sweet Bird of Youth/the Rose Tatto/the Night of the Iguanaby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451529081 (0-451-52908-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Three by Tennessee Williamsby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451521498 (0-451-52149-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Three Sistersby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0486275442 (0-486-27544-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Sisters'Book summary:As an internationally acclaimed playwright who is also proficient in Russian, Michael Frayn is ideally placed to offer us a wholly accurate yet modern and playable translation of Chekhov's classic play. For this edition he has also provided a full introduction and a chronology of Chekhov's life and works. Michael Frayn's "ambition in translating the piece was to recreate for an English audience the naturalness and 'glancing eloquence' of the original, and I think he succeeds completely" Spectator Frayn's translation "is full of those little liberties and intimacies of ordinary speech which override grammar and syntax and betray moods of ordinary people and the impulses of the heart" Daily Telegraph [via]
Three Sisters: a Drama in Four Actsby Anton Chekov, Stark YoungISBN 0573616639 (0-573-61663-9)
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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Barbara EverettISBN 0451527135 (0-451-52713-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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The Two Gentlemen of Veronaby William Shakespeare, Bertrand Evans, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451530632 (0-451-53063-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two Gentleman of Verona'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and unjustly neglected in the past, The Two Gentlemen of Verona has deserved its growing critical reputation over recent years. The play dramatises the entangled relations between the two gentlemen of the play's title, Valentine and Proteus. Valentine leaves Verona for Milan to seek his fortune, while Proteus stays to be near his love, Julia. Spurned by Julia, Proteus heads for Milan, where he finds himself a rival of Valentine for the hand of Silvia, the Duke's daughter. Julia then reappears, disguised in boy's clothes as Proteus' page. As in many of Shakespeare's later comedies, the lovers flee to the forest, where confusion and conflict is finally resolved, and the two gentlemen are reunited not only with their "correct" lovers, but also with each other.
The play is particularly interesting for its dramatisation of the intense friendship between Valentine and Proteus, which it often characterises as more intimate and meaningful than relations with women. Proteus complains that Julia "hast metamorphosed me" into something he cannot understand, and the play suggests that social and sexual relations between men are often more satisfying than the dangerous instability involved in wooing women. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ISBN 0521294061 (0-521-29406-1)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press - The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ISBN 0521446031 (0-521-44603-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ISBN 0563202777 (0-563-20277-7)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns - The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ISBN 0415027098 (0-415-02709-8)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold - The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ISBN 0416700802 (0-416-70080-2)
Softcover, Routledge - The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ISBN 0451516494 (0-451-51649-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ISBN 0521095050 (0-521-09505-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge U.P. - The Two Gentleman of Verona: ISBN 0451530632 (0-451-53063-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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