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The Queen and IIn the not-too-distant future, a radical government has come to power in Great Britain and the Royal family has been moved...to a housing estate in Leicester. For the first time, the Royals have to live as ordinary people and they find the experience baffling...
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Medea: A New TranslationRenowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A...
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Henry VBy the time depicted in this play, Henry has turned into the greatest of English kings. Though he has retained the common touch and sense of humor he showed as Falstaff's bosom buddy in the two parts of Henry IV, he has become fiercely...
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Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé: In and Out of AfricaThe work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahul has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For the first time, Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahul In and Out of Africa makes available to an Anglophone...
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Son of a ButcherSon of a Butcher is book IV of the Amicable circle which continues the narrative of the small town of Amicable, Iowa. It details the story of Butcher's son, J.T., who possesses almost miraculous visual powers. With these, he notices, during his father's funeral,...
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LysistrataIn Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. Author: AristophanesPublisher: Signet BookPublished: 04/07/2009Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.50h x 4.10w x 0.70dISBN: 9780451531247Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorAristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c....
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The AccusedA courtroom drama using the audience as jury, as if they were in the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey. The audience must decide - did Dr Sherwood murder his wife? Was Jennifer Mitchell his mistress? Which of his alibis should they believe?Author:...
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Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High SeasWhen the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best...
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Requiem for a NunThis sequel to Faulkner's most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced...
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Greek Tragedies 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Electra, the Trojan WomeGreek Tragedies, Volume II contains Aeschylus's "The Libation Bearers," translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Electra," translated by David Grene; Euripides's "Iphigenia among the Taurians," translated by Anne Carson; Euripides's "Electra," translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule; and Euripides's "The Trojan Women," translated by Richmond Lattimore....
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Peer Gynt: A Dramatic PoemThis translation is based upon the Norwegian text in the Centenary Edition of Ibsen's collected works. It provides a close account of the quality of Ibsen's play by reproducing as nearly as possible not only the meaning in the literal sense but the verse...
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The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville/The Marriage of Figaro/The Guilty MotherEighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theater star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to combine with Don Quixote and D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? He was quickly appropriated by Mozart and Rossini who tamed the original...
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The Trojan Women and Other PlaysThis volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific brutality that...
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The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other PlaysBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in...
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other PlaysBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in...
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The Comedy of ErrorsThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three ActsCelebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck's dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has...
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The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)To celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America's greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power...
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Henry VI, Part 2The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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CymbelineI feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or...
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