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27 Short Playsby Christopher DurangISBN 188039989X (1-880399-89-X)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '27 Short Plays'Book summary:A collection of works by Christopher Durang. Twenty-seven short plays including: Woman Stand-up, Titanic, The Actor's Nightmare, A Stye of the Eye, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, and Wanda's Visit. [via]
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The Acharniansby AristophanesISBN 0140442871 (0-14-044287-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Aeschylus IIby David Grene, Richmond A. Lattimore, AeschylusISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Aeschylus II:
Aeschylus: Plays Oneby Aeschylus, Frederic Raphael, Kenneth McLeish, J. Michael WaltonISBN 0413651908 (0-413-65190-8)
Softcover, A & C Black
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Aeschylus Two: Four Tragedies Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians, the Suppliant Maidensby AeschylusISBN 0226307794 (0-226-30779-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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All's Well That Ends Wellby William ShakespeareISBN 1904271197 (1-904271-19-7)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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Antigoneby Sophocles, Wolfgang SchadewaldtISBN 3458017704 (3-458-01770-4)
Hardcover, Insel Verlag
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Bacchae: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudalby Euripides, Kenneth McLeish, Frederic RalphaelISBN 1854594117 (1-85459-411-7)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudal'Book summary:Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently hysterical--celebration of the feast of Dionysus, the God of wine.[via]More editions of Bacchae: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudal:
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Bacchae and Other Playsby Euripides, James Morwood, Edith HallISBN 019283875X (0-19-283875-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae and Other Plays'Book summary:The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. Iphigenia at Aulis centers on the ultimate dysfunctional family as emotion is tested in the crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. And Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, is an action-packed Iliad in miniature, dealing with a grisly event in the Trojan War. [via]
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The Bacchae and Other Plays: Ion; the Women of Troy, Helen; the Bacchaeby Euripides, Philip VellacottISBN 0140440445 (0-14-044044-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Bacchae and Other Plays: The Bacchae Phoenician Women Orestesby John Davie, Richard Rutherford, EuripidesISBN 0140447261 (0-14-044726-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bacchae and Other Plays: The Bacchae Phoenician Women Orestes'Book summary:[via]The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus
completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.- Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary
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Becketby Jean Anouilh, Frederic Raphael, Stephen RaphaelISBN 0413774929 (0-413-77492-9)
Softcover, A & C Black
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Becket: Or the Honor of Godby Jean Anouilh, Lucienne HillISBN 039951354X (0-399-51354-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Caucasian Chalk Circleby Bertolt BrechtISBN 039462372X (0-394-62372-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus Iby Aeschylus, Richmond A. Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307786 (0-226-30778-6)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus I'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus I:
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Everymanby James JenningsISBN 1854593862 (1-85459-386-2)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everyman'Book summary:The classic 16th century morality play, recently revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company.[via]More editions of Everyman:
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enufby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0020248911 (0-02-024891-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf'Book summary:The complete text and stage directions to Shange's 1976 Broadway production is the moving statement of a talented black woman artist who sings the song of her own experience in a way that all can relate to it. [via]
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoemby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0026098407 (0-02-609840-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Glengarry Glen Rossby David MametISBN 0394620496 (0-394-62049-6)
Softcover, Grove Press
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King Johnby William Shakespeare, Claire McEachernISBN 0140714596 (0-14-071459-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King John'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most unpopular history plays, King John deals with the life and death of King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216. This is as early as Shakespeare goes in his treatment of English history, concentrating more successfully on the later 14th and 15th centuries in the plays which stretch from Richard II to Henry VI. As a result, King John suffers from being so historically distant in time, as well as offering a rather weak and vacillating king, who lacks the charisma and authority of Richard III or Henry V. The play begins with King John struggling to retain his throne, under attack from rebellious courtiers and Philip, the king of France. As the quarrel escalates into war with France, the plays begins to take on a contemporary Elizabethan flavour--the feared invasion from a foreign (Catholic) nation, and the extent to which such an invasion is based on the questionable paternity of King John (like Queen Elizabeth, John is accused of being a bastard and is excommunicated). The play is saved from its rather colourless political machinations by Philip the Bastard, John's favourite, a dramatic forerunner of dubious but charismatic malcontents like Edmund in King Lear. It is also Philip who is given the most powerful and patriotic lines, when he claims that "This England never did, nor never shall, / Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror". King John's mysterious and anticlimactic death through illness at the end of the play deflates expectations--something that could be said of the play as a whole. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- King John: ISBN 0174436130 (0-17-443613-0)
Softcover, Thomson Nelson - King John: ISBN 0192814583 (0-19-281458-3)
Softcover, Oxford University Press - King John: ISBN 0198129300 (0-19-812930-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated - King John: ISBN 0415026911 (0-415-02691-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - King John: ISBN 0140714596 (0-14-071459-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- King John: ISBN 0174436130 (0-17-443613-0)
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The Laramie Projectby Moises Kaufman, Tectonic Theatre Project StaffISBN 0375727191 (0-375-72719-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Laramie Project'Book summary:On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepards death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and its they we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece, a deeply complex portrait of a community. [via]
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Le Mariage De Figaroby Pierre De BeaumarchaisISBN 2011691885 (2-01-169188-5)
Softcover, Hachette
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Mariage De Figaro'Book summary:pubOne.info present you this new edition. Par un abus punissable, on a envoyé à Amsterdam un prétendu manuscrit de cette pièce, tiré de mémoire et défiguré, plein de lacunes, de contre-sens et d'absurdités. On l'a imprimé et vendu en y mettant le nom de M. de Beaumarchais. Des comédiens de province se sont permis de donner et représenter cette production, comme l'ouvrage de l'auteur; il n'a manqué à tous ces gens de bien que d'être loués dans quelques feuilles périodiques. [via]
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The Learned Ladiesby Moliere, Richard Wilbur, Enrico ArnoISBN 0151494800 (0-15-149480-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Publishers
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The Learned Ladies: Comedy in Five Acts, 1672by Richard Wilbur, MoliereISBN 0156495015 (0-15-649501-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Life and Death of King John/The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII: 2 in 1by William Shakespeare, A. R. BraunmullerISBN 0192836072 (0-19-283607-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Life of Timon of Athensby William Shakespeare, Robert L. SmallwoodISBN 0140707271 (0-14-070727-1)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Love's Labor's Lostby William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller, Stephen Orgel, Peter HollandISBN 0140714774 (0-14-071477-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Labor's Lost'Book summary:This edition of Love''s Labour''s lost provide s a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and comment ary on the same pages as the text and an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play. ' [via]
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- Love's Labor's Lost: ISBN 0174435002 (0-17-443500-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning EMEA, Limited - Love's Labour's Lost: ISBN 0192838806 (0-19-283880-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Love's Labor's Lost: ISBN 0415026954 (0-415-02695-4)
Softcover, Thomson Learning EMEA, Limited - Love's Labor's Lost: ISBN 0451529502 (0-451-52950-2)
Softcover, Signet - Love's Labour's Lost: ISBN 0140707387 (0-14-070738-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr - Love's Labor's Lost: ISBN 0192819402 (0-19-281940-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated - Love's Labor's Lost: ISBN 0451522672 (0-451-52267-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Love's Labor's Lost: ISBN 0140714774 (0-14-071477-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Love's Labor's Lost: ISBN 0174435002 (0-17-443500-2)
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Lysistrataby Aristophanes, Douglass ParkerISBN 0451527895 (0-451-52789-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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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]
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The Marriage of Figaroby Henrik Ibsen, Pam Gems, BeaumarchaisISBN 1854594923 (1-85459-492-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marriage of Figaro'Book summary:The hero of the comic genius Beaumarchais' Figaro plays is the eponymous Figaro, a scheming and resourceful valet. His Figaro plays reflect the dynamism of his life, and are perhaps most familiar to people through Mozart's and Rossini's adaptations. [via]
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Oedipus the King: Uses And Abusesby Sophocles, Stephen Berg, Diskin ClayISBN 0195054938 (0-19-505493-8)
Softcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus the King'Book summary:Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read - today. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com [via]
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Oedipus Tyrannusby Sophocles, Theodore F. BrunnerISBN 0393098745 (0-393-09874-5)
Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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Periclesby William Shakespeare, James McManawayISBN 0140714383 (0-14-071438-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Periclesby P. EdwardsISBN 0140707298 (0-14-070729-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles'Book summary:Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare's inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style and content. However, Shakespeare was clearly the driving force behind the play, and it is important to remember that it was one of the most popular plays of its time.
Famous for its resurrection of John Gower, the 14th-century English writer, who acts as the play's chorus, Pericles is a play which is obsessed with incest. The dramatic action begins in Antioch, where Pericles travels to solve the riddle of King Antiochus, who "to incest did provoke" his daughter. When Pericles realises Antiochus' terrible secret, he flees, wandering the seas, where he meets his wife Thaisa, who apparently dies whilst giving birth to her daughter Marina during a terrible storm. Pericles' grief is compounded by the apparent death of his daughter whilst staying at Tarsus some months later. She has in fact been sold into sexual slavery, and as Pericles resumes his wanderings, 16 years later Marina battles to retain her "peevish chastity". As with many of Shakespeare's later plays, or romances, recognition and reunion occurs in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite questions of authorship and textual corruption, Pericles continues to fascinate audiences and critics with its dark and ambivalent account of the relations between fathers and daughters. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Pericles, Prince of Tyreby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714693 (0-14-071469-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles: Prince of Tyre'Book summary:Pericles undergoes shipwreck, storm, and a tyrant's fury. He wins love only to have his family torn asunder, but what is lost may also be found. This strange and powerful tale of loss and recovery is the first of Shakespeare's late romances. [via]
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Pericles/Cymbeline/The Two Noble Kinsmenby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451530357 (0-451-53035-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pericles/Cymbeline/The Two Noble Kinsmen'Book summary:The plays collected here follow: the journeys of Pericles, Prince of Tyre; the political and romantic betrayals of Cymbeline - a chieftain of ancient times; and a work based on Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.[via]More editions of Pericles/Cymbeline/The Two Noble Kinsmen:
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebesby Aeschylus, Philip VellacottISBN 0140441123 (0-14-044112-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes'Book summary:[via]Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.
A god who would not bow to the gods anger you
Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal menAeschylus (525456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes.
Philip Vellacotts evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.
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Respect for Actingby Uta HagenISBN 0025473905 (0-02-547390-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Sea Gullby Anton Chekhov, Pam GemsISBN 1854592610 (1-85459-261-0)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
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Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universeby Jane WagnerISBN 0060920718 (0-06-092071-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe'Book summary:Jane Wagner's masterpiece--The first play in [via]
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- Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: ISBN 0060156732 (0-06-015673-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: ISBN 0060157232 (0-06-015723-2)
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: The Broadway Smash Starring Lily Tomlinby Jane WagnerISBN 0060914319 (0-06-091431-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Six Characters in Search of an Authorby Luigi PirandelloISBN 0413460304 (0-413-46030-4)
Softcover, A & C Black
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Characters in Search of an Author'Book summary:Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they[via]
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 invites them
to act out the key events of their lives
Pirandello's best-known play and 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
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Playsby Mark Musa, Luigi PirandelloISBN 014018922X (0-14-018922-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Six Characters Looking for an Authorby Luigi PirandelloISBN 0413768104 (0-413-76810-4)
Softcover, A & C Black
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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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Sophoclesby Sophocles, David Grene, Richmond A. LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Sophocles:
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The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Dramaby Eric Russell BentleyISBN 0140171789 (0-14-017178-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama'Book summary:The work of Appia, Artaud, Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Pirandello, Shaw, Stanislavsky, Richard Wagner, Yeats and Zola is the subject of the first part of this anthology. Their ideas about their art and about the future possibilities of drama are revealed through either their own words or those of their best expositors. The second part contains excerpts from the writings of such commentators as George Lukacs, Romain Rolland and Alexis de Tocqueville, which bring together the threads of part one to give an overview of the development of theatre from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. [via]
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The Theory of the Modern Theatre: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Dramaby Eric BentleyISBN 0140209476 (0-14-020947-6)
Hardcover, Penguin
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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 Tragediesby Federico Garcia LorcaISBN 014048020X (0-14-048020-X)
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The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles, Cymbelineby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451520424 (0-451-52042-4)
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Ubu Roiby Alfred Jarry, Noel Arnaud, Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France)ISBN 2869160399 (2-86916-039-9)
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Ubu Roiby Jarry AlfredISBN 2080721054 (2-08-072105-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ubu Roi'Book summary:Le 9 décembre 1896, un jeune homme crée le scandale en faisant jouer au Théâtre de lOEuvre une farce truculente, Ubu roi. « Merdre ! » Sitôt le premier mot lâché, la salle siffle, hue, rit, proteste : le public est insulté, les conventions théâtrales bousculées, le grotesque sintroduit dans le théâtre davant-garde. En mettant en scène les tribulations du Père Ubu personnage cynique et ordurier, prêt à tout pour saccaparer le pouvoir , Jarry donne naissance à un véritable mythe. Blague de potache témoignant de linventivité dun lycéen rennais ou « pamphlet philosophico-politique à gueule effrontée », selon le mot dun journaliste dalors, Ubu roi est dabord un feu dartifice verbal qui, plus dun siècle plus tard, na rien perdu de sa saveur. [via]
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Who Can Speak?: Authority and Critical Identityby Judith Roof, Robyn WiegmanISBN 0252064879 (0-252-06487-9)
Softcover, University of Illinois Press
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The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare, Frances E. DolanISBN 014071488X (0-14-071488-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter's Tale'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most haunting and enigmatic late plays, The Winter's Tale is a fine example of Shakespeare's fascination with the dramatic genre of "romance": the portrayal of magical lands, familial conflict and exile, and final reunion and reconciliation. Drawing on Robert Green's story Pandosto, Shakespeare play tells the story of the middle-aged Leontes, king of Sicilia, and his childhood friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. Leontes mistakenly believes that his friend is having an affair with his wife, Hermione. In his jealousy, and consumed by "tremor cordis", he tries to murder Polixenes, who flees, and accuses his wife of adultery. Hermione gives birth to a baby girl, Perdita, who Leontes denounces as illegitimate, and casts her out into the wilderness. Hermione is ultimately proved innocent, but her son, Mamillius, dies of grief. Hermione collapses, apparently dead, and Leontes is left to pick up the tragic consequences of his actions. Time passes, and the action moves to Bohemia, where the lost child Perdita has grown up a shepherdess in the midst of "great creating nature". The final scenes of the play draw towards resolution and reconciliation between Leontes, Hermione and their lost daughter, culminating in one of Shakespeare's most moving final scenes. One of Shakespeare's most consummate plays, The Winter's Tale is a fascinating study of male insecurity and the relations between art and nature. --Jerry Brotton. [via]
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- The Winter's Tale: ISBN 0192838776 (0-19-283877-6)
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The Winter's Tale: Texts and Contextsby William Shakespeare, Baldwin MaxwellISBN 0140714049 (0-14-071404-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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Writing in Restaurantsby David MametISBN 0140089810 (0-14-008981-0)
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Barbier de Sevilleby BeaumarchaisISBN 2038710309 (2-03-871030-9)
Softcover, Librairie Larousse
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Le Barbier De Seville: Comedie [par] Beaumarchaisby Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais, Georges BonnevilleISBN 2040080066 (2-04-008006-6)
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La Cantatrice Chauveby Eugène Ionesco, Bulwa, MarchISBN 0030137314 (0-03-013731-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Cantatrice Chauve'Book summary:"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stéréotypé devient aberrant. C'est ce que Ionesco démontre dans Rhinocéros, pièce qui a tout d'abord vu le jour sous la forme d'une nouvelle. Partisan d'un théâtre total, il porte l'absurde à son paroxysme en l'incarnant matériellement.
Allégorie des idéologies de masse, le rhinocéros, cruel et dévastateur, ne se déplace qu'en groupe et gagne du terrain à une vitesse vertigineuse. Seul et sans trop savoir pourquoi, Bérenger résiste à la mutation. Il résiste pour notre plus grande délectation, car sa lutte désespérée donne lieu à des caricatures savoureuses, à des variations de tons et de genres audacieuses et anticonformistes. La sclérose intellectuelle, l'incommunicabilité et la perversion du langage engendrent des situations tellement tragiques qu'elles en deviennent comiques, tellement grotesques qu'elles ne peuvent être que dramatiques.
On a dit du théâtre de Ionesco qu'il était engagé ; il l'est, en faveur de l'individu, menacé de marginalisation quand, malgré ses faiblesses, il parvient à résister aux tentations avilissantes qu'il a lui-même fait naître. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Le Mariage de Figaroby BeaumarchaisISBN 2038710317 (2-03-871031-7)
Softcover, Librairie Larousse
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Antigonaby Sofocles, Alejandro VigoISBN 9507860568 (950-786-056-8)
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Tragedias Completasby SophoclesISBN 8437605075 (84-376-0507-5)
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Ubú Reyby Alfred Jarry, Lola Bermúdez, José Benito AliqueISBN 8437615771 (84-376-1577-1)
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Sophokles: Tragödien. Die Bibliothek der Alten Weltby SophoklesISBN 3760841023 (3-7608-4102-3)
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