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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller

ISBN 1555460615 (1-55546-061-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink realism and spectral abstraction, the facts of particular hard times and universal themes. As Christopher Bigsby's mildly interesting afterword in this 50th-anniversary edition points out (as does Miller in his memoir, Timebends), Willy is closely based on the playwright's sad, absurd salesman uncle, Manny. But of course Miller made Manny into Everyman, and gave him the name of the crime commissioner Lohmann in Fritz Lang's angst-ridden 1932 Nazi parable, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
The tragedy of Loman the all-American dreamer and loser works eternally, on the page as on the stage. A lot of plays made history around 1949, but none have stepped out of history into the classic canon as Salesman has. Great as it was, Tennessee Williams's work can't be revived as vividly as this play still is, all over the world. (This edition has edifying pictures of Lee J. Cobb's 1949 and Brian Dennehy's 1999 performances.) It connects Aristotle, The Great Gatsby, On the Waterfront, David Mamet, and the archetypal American movie antihero. It even transcends its author's tragic flaw of pious preachiness (which undoes his snoozy The Crucible, unfortunately his most-produced play).
No doubt you've seen Willy Loman's story at least once. It's still worth reading. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman: ISBN 0812034104 (0-8120-3410-4)
  Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
- Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman: ISBN 1555460615 (1-55546-061-5)
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Cliffscomplete Macbeth
by Sidney Lamb, Christopher Morrow

ISBN 076458572X (0-7645-8572-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.
CliffsComplete Othello makes you familiar with one of the most staged of all of Shakespeare's plays. Othello is a tale of love and betrayal, secrets, passion, and intrigue. Psychology and wit pit strength and virtue against jealousy and evil agendas. The results leave no winners, only tragedy in the lives of the jealous Moor, Othello, and his wife, Desdemona.
Enhance your reading of Othello and save valuable studying time all at once with CliffsComplete Othello. Additional features include:
A summary and insightful commentary for each scene
Bibliography and historical background on the playwright, William Shakespeare
A look at the historical context and structure of the play
Discussions on the play's symbols and themes
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!
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Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller, Gerald Clifford Weales

ISBN 0140247734 (0-14-024773-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Ever since it was first performed in 1949, death of a salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the american theater. In the person of willy loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, arthur miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity-and a play that compresses epic extremems of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an american living room. "by common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the american theater." -brooks atkinson, the new york times "so simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." -time [via]
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Death of a Salesman/Coles Notes
by Miller

ISBN 0774030232 (0-7740-3023-2)
Softcover, Coles Pub Group Ltd

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This is a study guide to help students who have to answer questions or write exams or essays about Death of a Salesman. It is the Coles Notes Edition. [via]
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El Salon De Ambar
by Matilde Asensi

ISBN 8408068563 (84-08-06856-3)
Softcover, Booket

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The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad
by Roger Boylan

ISBN 0802140327 (0-8021-4032-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Roger Boylan's first novel, Killoyle, established him as a brilliant successor to such Irish masters as Joyce, Beckett, and J. P. Donleavy. Now his new farce follows the hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, through the frenetic week of the Pint-Pulling Olympiad. After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists a lawyer, Tom O'Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer's real gig is selling missiles to the IRA, and he plans to use his clueless client as a patsy. O'Mallet also hoodwinks Anil, an Indian waiter who has found himself the unlikely target of a manhunt. What Tom doesn't know is that his lucrative weapons are destined for a massive terrorist attack on the Pint-Pulling Olympiad, and that Anil's sexy cousin Rashmi a sweatshop worker turned intelligence operative is hot on the bombers' trail. With a wink and a nudge, Boylan's pyrotechnic prose brings to life Ireland at its manic extremes, proving the author a dazzling and distinctive talent in American fiction.
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, David Bevington

ISBN 1402206887 (1-4022-0688-7)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc

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Shakespeare has been called the greatest writer in the English languagebut his language and settings can seem remote and forbidding. Welcome to Black Dogs Graphic Shakespeare Library, where each play comes to life in a new way, panel after illustrated panel.

King Lear is a story of kingship, honor, and bloody revenge. Graphic Shakespeare brings all of the action to vivid life while retaining every word of the original play. King Lear is illustrated in full color by Ian Pollack and includes a synopsis of the play, and an illustrated character list. Its a marvelous way to experience Shakespeare for the first timeor the tenthand is sure to be attractive to students and theatre fans alike. [via]
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Macbeth: Level 4
by Not Available

ISBN 0582829992 (0-582-82999-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's best and most popular plays. It tells the bloody tale of Scotland's kings 1000 years ago - a tale of witches, murder, and the power of greed. [via]
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Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easy
by William Shakespeare, Tanya Grosz, Linda Wendler

ISBN 1599051346 (1-59905-134-6)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub

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One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Macbeth With Readers Guide
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0877208034 (0-87720-803-4)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare, Russ McDonald

ISBN 0140714553 (0-14-071455-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale and confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare, Billy Aronson, Lars Hokanson, Frances Cichetti, Kathryn Yingling

ISBN 0061064157 (0-06-106415-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Shakespeare's Macbeth
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 1594480087 (1-59448-008-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Introducing the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Editions from Riverhead [via]
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Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett, James Knowlson, Douglad McMillan

ISBN 0802115489 (0-8021-1548-9)
Hardcover, Grove Pr

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A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain".--The London Times. [via]
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Tragedy of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1419185551 (1-4191-8555-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun. FIRST WITCH. Where the place? SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath. THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth. FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin. [via]
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett

ISBN 0802118216 (0-8021-1821-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr

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From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment by American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. Now in honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, Grove Press is publishing a bilingual edition of the play. Originally written in French, Beckett translated the work himself, and in doing so chose to revise and eliminate various passages. With side-by-side text the reader can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore the nuances of his creativity.

Upon being asked who Godot is, Samuel Beckett told Alan Schneider, "If I knew, I would have said so in the play." Although we may never know who we are waiting for, in this special edition we can rediscover one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
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Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts
by Samuel Becket

ISBN 0802130348 (0-8021-3034-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone-or something-named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. [via]
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Waiting for Godot/Coles Notes
by Beckett

ISBN 0774033630 (0-7740-3363-0)
Softcover, Coles Pub Group Ltd

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William Shakespeare's Macbeth
by Philip Page, Marilyn Petit

ISBN 0764131400 (0-7641-3140-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- William Shakespeare's Macbeth: ISBN 0764131400 (0-7641-3140-0)
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Esperando a Godot / Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett

ISBN 8472238652 (84-7223-865-2)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Macbeth y Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Juan Alarcon Benito

ISBN 8484034216 (84-8403-421-6)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros

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En Attendant Godot
by Samuel Beckett

ISBN 2707301485 (2-7073-0148-5)
Softcover, Editions de Minuit

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Cette pièce de théâtre en deux actes de Samuel Beckett est parue en 1952 aux Editions de Minuit et a été créée le 5 janvier 1953 au théâtre de Babylone à Paris, dans une mise en scène de Roger Blin. C'est la première pièce de Beckett écrite directement en français. Elle met en scène deux couples de personnages - les clochards Estragon et Vladimir, les maître et esclave Pozzo et Lucky - et répète le même scénario sur deux actes. L'action se déroule le soir sur une route de campagne. Le seul élément de décor est un arbre dénudé. [via]
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