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100 Great Operas and Their Storiesby Henry W. SimonISBN 0385054483 (0-385-05448-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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An Adaptation of the Rover (The Banished Cavaliers)by John Barton, Aphra Behn, Simon Trussler, Royal Shakespeare CompanyISBN 0413405508 (0-413-40550-8)
Softcover, Methuen
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All the World's a Stageby Ronald HarwoodISBN 0316349909 (0-316-34990-9)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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As Is: A Playby William M. HoffmanISBN 0394742869 (0-394-74286-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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At Freddie'sby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395956188 (0-395-95618-8)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guideby Joanna MerlinISBN 0375725377 (0-375-72537-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Brighton Beach Memoirsby Neil SimonISBN 0394537394 (0-394-53739-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Buchner : The Complete Playsby Georg Buchner, Michael Patterson, Howard BrentonISBN 0413140903 (0-413-14090-3)
Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited
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Burn Thisby Lanford WilsonISBN 0374521581 (0-374-52158-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Butleyby Simon GrayISBN 0413340600 (0-413-34060-0)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Certain Womenby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374120250 (0-374-12025-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Certain Women'Book summary:As David Wheaton's enormous family gathers around his deathbed, Emma Wheaton, his actress daughter, compares her father's life with a play about the Old Testament King David, written by her estranged husband. 40,000 first printing. [via]
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Changing Stages : A View of British and American Theatre in the Twentieth Centuryby Richard Eyre, Nicholas WrightISBN 0375412034 (0-375-41203-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Collected Shorter Playsby Samuel BeckettISBN 0394620984 (0-394-62098-4)
Softcover, Grove Press
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Compassby Janet ColemanISBN 0394525450 (0-394-52545-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivanby Arthur Seymour SullivanISBN 0393008282 (0-393-00828-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivanby W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Seymour SullivanISBN 0393316882 (0-393-31688-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country Wifeby William Wycherley, James OgdenISBN 0393900630 (0-393-90063-0)
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Dance with Demons : The Life of Jerome Robbinsby Greg LawrenceISBN 0399146520 (0-399-14652-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dance with Demons : The Life of Jerome Robbins'Book summary:The first biography of the celebrated choreographer/director of Broadway, ballet, and Hollywood-a man of towering achievement and extraordinary personal demons.
For decades he was one of the most commanding creative forces in America. His work on such shows as On the Town, The King and I, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, and Jerome Robbins's Broadway earned him five Tony Awards and two Academy Awards. His brilliance with American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet established him as one of America's great ballet masters.
But when Jerome Robbins, né Rabinowitz, died at the age of seventy-nine in 1998, he was a haunted man. All of his life, he had struggled with demons: his bisexuality, his Judaism, his often bitter relationship with his parents, his betrayals of others during the McCarthy hearings, and his perfectionism that bordered on the sadistic. He was loved and hated in equal parts; and only now, in this groundbreaking biography by insider Greg Lawrence, based upon two years of research and dozens of interviews with Robbins's family, friends, and colleagues, can the full measure of both the artist and the man be taken. It is a fascinating portrait of light and dark-like its subject, a work rich in complexity. [via]More editions of Dance with Demons : The Life of Jerome Robbins:
Danton's Deathby Georg BuchnerISBN 0413512606 (0-413-51260-6)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Dear Tom: Letters from Homeby Tom Courtenay, Annie Eliza CourtenayISBN 038560095X (0-385-60095-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Devil and the Good Lord and Two Other Playsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394700651 (0-394-70065-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Drinking in Americaby Eric BogosianISBN 0394750675 (0-394-75067-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Edward the Secondby Christopher Marlowe, W. Moelwyn MerchantISBN 0393900185 (0-393-90018-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edward the Second'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
" The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
" Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings
" Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play
" Critical, contextual and staging notes
" Photographs of productions where applicable
" A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.
Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via]
Eight Playsby Eva Le Gallienne, Henrik IbsenISBN 0394328655 (0-394-32865-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Elephant Manby Bernard PomeranceISBN 0394175395 (0-394-17539-5)
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English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthologyby David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmusse N, Lars Engle, Katharine Eisaman MausISBN 0393976556 (0-393-97655-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Enter a Free Manby Tom StoppardISBN 0394177797 (0-394-17779-7)
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Epicoene : Or, the Silent Womanby Ben Jonson, R. V. HoldsworthISBN 0393900401 (0-393-90040-1)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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File on Shepardby John DugdaleISBN 0413174107 (0-413-17410-7)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The First Folio of Shakespeare: Based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collectionby William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library, Charlton Hinman, Peter W. M. BlayneyISBN 0393039854 (0-393-03985-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Five Playsby Aphra BehnISBN 041317090X (0-413-17090-X)
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Foolsby Neil SimonISBN 0394523903 (0-394-52390-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Gay Plays the First Collectionby William H. HoffmanISBN 0380427885 (0-380-42788-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Good Bodyby Eve EnslerISBN 037550284X (0-375-50284-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Happy Birthday, Wanda Juneby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385283857 (0-385-28385-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June'Book summary:In his first published play, Kurt Vonnegut finds a powerful vehicle for his tragicomical imagination. When the great hunter Harold Ryan--missing and presumed dead--returns from Africa after eight years, his wife is aghast and his son is enchanted. Vonnegut's attack on phony heroes and male swagger uses some of the funniest dialogue ever created for the stage. [via]
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The House of Barrymoreby Margot PetersISBN 0394553217 (0-394-55321-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Hurly Burlyby David RabeISBN 0394620119 (0-394-62011-9)
Softcover, Grove Press
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Improvise: Scene from the Inside Outby Mick NapierISBN 032500630X (0-325-00630-X)
Softcover, Heinemann Drama
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Improvise: Scene from the Inside Out'Book summary:For more than 20 years of directing, teaching, and participating in improvisation, Mick Napier has watched thousands of scenes. His experience as founder of the acclaimed Annoyance Theatre/Annoyance Productions, as well as Resident Director and Artistic Consultant for The Second City, has led him to continually question why and how scenes work or don't work and what one must do in order for a scene to be successful.
In this book, Napier takes an irreverent, but constructive look at the art and practice of improvised scenes. He covers such topics as:
- two-person scenes
- group scenes
- entering scenes
- techniques to achieve richer, more layered scenes
- auditioning
- solo exercises for practice at home.
Get helpful, tangible guidelines for bringing strength and direction to your scenes. Just Improvise. [via]
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J.B.by Archibald MacLeishISBN 0395083532 (0-395-08353-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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John G: The Authorized Biographyby Sheridan MorleyISBN 0340368039 (0-340-36803-9)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Largo Desolato: A Play in Seven Scenesby Vaclav HavelISBN 0394622650 (0-394-62265-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Let's Put on a Musical!: How to Choose the Right Show for Your School, Community or Professional Theaterby Peter FilichiaISBN 0380770458 (0-380-77045-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan CheeverISBN 0375756728 (0-375-75672-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (186869) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.
Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcotts own precursors to Little Women. Criticism reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Little Women:
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The Longman Anthology Of Drama And Theater: A Global Perspectiveby Michael L. Greenwald, Roger Schultz, Roberto Dario PomoISBN 0321291387 (0-321-29138-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longman Anthology Of Drama And Theater: A Global Perspective'Book summary:The Longman Anthology of Drama and Theatre is a fully-integrated text/anthology of drama with a global emphasis. Divided into two parts: Part One covers the origins of drama: genres, conventions, styles and descriptions of roles; and Part Two is a six chapter anthology of plays, including plays from around the world with a solid core of western plays. Each chapter in Part Two includes visuals, maps, timelines, biographical and contextual headnotes, and an overview of the history and conventions of each period that help readers gain a better understanding of the drama and theater being presented. [via]
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The Longman Anthology Of Drama And Theater: A Global Perspectiveby Longman, Michael L. Greenwald, Roger Schultz, Roberto Dario PomoISBN 0321088980 (0-321-08898-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Love-Girl and the Innocent: A Playby Aleksandr Isaevich SolshenitsynISBN 0370013212 (0-370-01321-2)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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The Love-Girl and the Innocent: A Playby Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas Bethell, David BurgISBN 0374508402 (0-374-50840-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Master Harold ... and the Boysby Athol FugardISBN 0394528743 (0-394-52874-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master Harold ... and the Boys'Book summary:Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age play. Initially banned from production in South Africa, the play was a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Leon Addison Brown, Keith David and Bobby Steggert. [via]More editions of Master Harold ... and the Boys:
Memoirsby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0385191863 (0-385-19186-3)
Softcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs'Book summary:When "Memoirs" was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media - though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by "The New York Times Book Review". As it turns out, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of "The Glass Menagerie" in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays. [via]
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Morning, Noon and Nightby Spalding GrayISBN 0374299854 (0-374-29985-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morning, Noon and Night'Book summary:The hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, by the author of It's a Slippery Slope[via]
In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Spalding comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of "a wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Spalding time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness: "Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?" Cosmic questions that for Gray are reinforced by the view from his bedroom window-a seventeenth-century graveyard-a cold reminder to the author of the impermanence of things, the transient nature of his life, the strange calling of his profession, which brilliantly confirms Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father to the man.
A richly comic work about parenthood , about adults who don't grow up and children who do, that stands as Spalding Gray's most mature work to date.More editions of Morning, Noon and Night:
The New Innby Ben JonsonISBN 0413166309 (0-413-16630-9)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Nine Plays of Eugene O'Neillby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0394604164 (0-394-60416-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Odyssey: A Playby Derek WalcottISBN 0374523878 (0-374-52387-8)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Oh What a Lovely Warby Theatre Workshop LondonISBN 0413302105 (0-413-30210-5)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oh What a Lovely War'Book summary:[via]This pioneering work is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period, was created in 1963 by Joan Littlewoods London-based group,Theatre Workshop. It was ground-breaking, not only for its blatant denounciation of the incompetence of political leaders during World War I, but also for its unusual theatrical style and development. Created organically through a process of improvisation which was then scripted, Oh What A Lovely War is a colorful and innovative exercise in ensemble theatre and acting.
It recalls the horrors of World War I through the humor and frivolity of a seaside pier show, mixing famous British war songs (often with alternative words) with gags and dances, and sets hilarious clowning against shocking factual documentation of the wars casualties. An exhilarating ensemble piece, Joan Littlewoods theatrical creation is a lesson in Brechtian theatre, in its self-conscious theatricality, and uses humor to present human tragedy.
It received the acclaim of London audiences and critics. It won the Grand Prix of the Théâtre des Nations festival in Paris that year and has gone on to become a classic of the modern theatre. In 1969 a film version was made which extended the play's popular success. This new version of the play, as edited by Joan Littlewood, returns the script to its original version.
Includes a new photo section of the original production, and an Afterword by Victor Spinetti.
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Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0321427130 (0-321-42713-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0375751513 (0-375-75151-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincotts and the 1891 book versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, allowing students to compare the two published versions with the editorial guidance of Michael Patrick Gillespie.
Backgrounds and Reviews and Reactions allow readers to gauge the novels sensational reception and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that the novel engendered.
Criticism includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of interpretive perspectives on Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Michael Patrick Gillespie, Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen OConnor, Elli Ragland-Sullivan, and John Paul Riquelme provide their varied assessments.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of The Picture of Dorian Gray:
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 0394605144 (0-394-60514-4)
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Plays Oneby StrindbergISBN 0413521605 (0-413-52160-5)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he called his masterpiece, and in which he presents with startling modernity the conflict between sexual passion and social position; and The Ghost Sonata (1907), written in physical pain and spiritual torment, which is a phantasmagoric dream play, 'a direct source for the Theatre of the Absurd' (Martin Esslin)."Michael Meyer is the translator most actors turn to when seeking a definitive text" (Sunday Times)
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Proust Screenplayby PinterISBN 0394170180 (0-394-17018-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Ralph Richardson: An Actor's Lifeby Garry O'ConnorISBN 0340270411 (0-340-27041-1)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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The Recruiting Officerby George FarquharISBN 0393900657 (0-393-90065-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedyby Scott McMillinISBN 0393099970 (0-393-09997-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, the Way of the World, the Conscious Lovers, the School for Scandal Contexts, crby Scott McMillinISBN 0393963349 (0-393-96334-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of Contexts. The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: On Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 16601775, The Collier Controversy: 1698, Steele and Dennis: On The Man of Mode and The Conscious Lovers, and Stages, Actors, and Audiences. Criticism has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly interpretations. Two seminal essays from the First Edition have been retainedCharles Lambs appreciation of the periods comedy and L. C. Knightss condemnation of it. New essays by Jocelyn Powell, Harriet Hawkins, Elin Diamond, Martin Price, and Laura Brown have been added. Illustrated [via]More editions of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, the Way of the World, the Conscious Lovers, the School for Scandal Contexts, cr:
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of The Country Wife, The Man of Mode, The Way of the World, The Conscious Lovers, The School for Scandal; Backgrounds, Criticismby Scott McMillinISBN 0393043525 (0-393-04352-5)
Hardcover, Norton
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The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of Contexts. The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: On Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 16601775, The Collier Controversy: 1698, Steele and Dennis: On The Man of Mode and The Conscious Lovers, and Stages, Actors, and Audiences. Criticism has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly interpretations. Two seminal essays from the First Edition have been retainedCharles Lambs appreciation of the periods comedy and L. C. Knightss condemnation of it. New essays by Jocelyn Powell, Harriet Hawkins, Elin Diamond, Martin Price, and Laura Brown have been added. Illustrated [via]More editions of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of The Country Wife, The Man of Mode, The Way of the World, The Conscious Lovers, The School for Scandal; Backgrounds, Criticism:
Rich: The Life of Richard Burtonby Melvyn BraggISBN 0340405376 (0-340-40537-6)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Richard Burton: A Lifeby Melvyn BraggISBN 0316105953 (0-316-10595-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Rimers of Eldritch and Other Playsby Lanford WilsonISBN 0374521689 (0-374-52168-9)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Roaring Girlby Elizabeth CookISBN 0393900851 (0-393-90085-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Roaring Girlby Thomas Middleton, Thomas DekkerISBN 039390024X (0-393-90024-X)
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Sex and Death to the Age 14by Spalding GrayISBN 0394742575 (0-394-74257-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Shakespeare Our Contemporaryby J KottISBN 0393007367 (0-393-00736-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage-conceptions. Readers all over the worldShakespeare Our Contemporary has been translated into nineteen languages since it appeared in 1961have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched. Mary McCarthy called the work "the best, the most alive, radical book about Shakespeare in at least a generation." [via]More editions of Shakespeare Our Contemporary:
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Shakespeare: Tragediesby David BevingtonISBN 032136628X (0-321-36628-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare: Tragedies'Book summary:Shakespeare's Tragedies features all the scholarship and pedagogy of David Bevington's The Complete Works of Shakespeare in a genre-specific, paperback volume. Pulled from Bevington's popular and authoritative hardcover The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, Shakespeare's Tragedies and three other genre volumesShakespeare's Romances and Poems, Shakespeare's Comedies, and Shakespeare's Historiesare also available for purchase on their own. Shakespeare's Tragediesprovides the same balanced editorial approach and proven apparatus that combine to make Bevingtons Complete Works the most accessible collection available. A prestigious editorial board provides state-of-the-art scholarship and interpretative balance on each play. In-depth historical coverage helps readers understand the cultural context behind each play, without dictating their interpretation of it. Extensive notes and glosses give readers the support they need to understand Elizabethan language and idiomatic expressions. For those who want all of Shakespeare's Tragedies in one volume.
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Shakespeare's Languageby Frank KermodeISBN 0374527741 (0-374-52774-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Language'Book summary:Among our greatest contemporary critics, Sir Frank Kermode is the author of such classics as The Sense of an Ending, and his recent memoir, Not Entitled, vividly captured a life in letters. It's no surprise, then, that Shakespeare's Language is a deeply significant publication. Reflecting many decades of writing and thinking about the Bard, it meets and often exceeds the reader's expectations.
The author begins by lamenting the fact that general readers have not "been well served by modern critics, who on the whole seem to have little time for [Shakespeare's] language." However, rather than launching into a diatribe against current literary fashions, he proceeds to offer an elegant and detailed account of how his subject transformed him into "a different kind of poet." For Kermode, the rich complexities of Hamlet or "The Phoenix and the Turtle" (an allegorical poem in which Shakespeare juggles love and Thomistic jargon like rhetorical ninepins) mark a whole new level of accomplishment. How to define the change? Kermode notes "the pace of the speech, its sudden turns, its backtrackings, its metaphors flashing before us and disappearing before we can consider them. This is new: the representation of excited, anxious thought; the weighing of confused possibilities and dubious motives."
This before-and-after scenario breaks the book into two parts. In the first, Kermode deals with the plays up to 1600, controversially putting the kibosh on such warhorses as As You Like It. The second part offers 15 detailed chapters on the tragedies, problem plays, and romances. This is classic criticism, written in the mold of Johnson and Colderidge. And while Kermode never pays short shrift to the difficulties of Shakespeare's language, he's even more attuned to its prodigal, inexhaustible pleasures. --Jerry Brotton [via]
The Shoemaker's Holidayby Thomas Dekker, Anthony ParrISBN 0393900622 (0-393-90062-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Six Modern American Playsby Allan G. HallineISBN 0394602765 (0-394-60276-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Six Plays by Lillian Hellmanby Lillian HellmanISBN 0394741129 (0-394-74112-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Street Where I Liveby Alan Jay LernerISBN 0340228385 (0-340-22838-5)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Sunday in the Park with George: A Musicalby Stephen Sondheim, James LapineISBN 0396086004 (0-396-08600-4)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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Tennessee Williams: Memoirsby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0385005733 (0-385-00573-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tennessee Williams: Memoirs'Book summary:When "Memoirs" was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media - though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by "The New York Times Book Review". As it turns out, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of "The Glass Menagerie" in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays. [via]
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The Theatre Art of Boris Aronsonby Frank Rich, Lisa AronsonISBN 0394529138 (0-394-52913-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Theatre of Bertolt Brechtby John WillettISBN 041334360X (0-413-34360-X)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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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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Tis Pity She's a Whoreby John FordISBN 0393900118 (0-393-90011-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'Book summary:New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
" The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
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" Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play
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" A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.
Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike. [via] 
Types of Drama: Plays and Essaysby Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, Morton BermanISBN 0316082082 (0-316-08208-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown
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Types of Drama: Plays and Contextsby Lesley Ferris, William Burto, Gerald Rabkin, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0321065069 (0-321-06506-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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