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Five Modern No PlaysJapanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner...
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FuenteovejunaLope de Vega's masterpiece, a classic play of the Spanish Golden Age, in a vibrant new translation Lope de Vega "single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre," writes Roberto Gonz lez Echevarr a in the introduction to this new translation of Fuenteovejuna. Often compared to...
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The Comedies'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic playwright of his...
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Heracles and Other PlaysEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with...
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Henry VI, Part III: The Oxford ShakespeareThis new edition to the Oxford Shakespeare series, based on the 1623 First Folio text, challenges conventional thinking about the nature and relationship of the earliest texts. It contributes substantial new evidence about Shakespeare's revision of the plays and the introduction and commentary focus...
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All's Well That Ends Well: The Oxford ShakespeareUsually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible,...
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Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic BookThis is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways...
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Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, 2nd EditionFar more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to...
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PersiansThe Persians, Aeschylus' earliest surviving tragedy, holds a fascination both for readers of Greek drama and Greek history. Not only is it the earliest existing play in the Western tradition, it is drawn directly from the playwright's own experiences at the battle of Salamis,...
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Oxford Bookworms Playscripts: Sherlock Holmes - Two Plays: Level 1: 400-Word VocabularyUse these fully illustrated classic and contemporary plays for reading practice or performance. Each script offers performance notes, character lists, exercises, and glossaries.Author: Sir Author Conan DoylePublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 03/15/2008Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.20dISBN: 9780194235037This title is...
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Collected Plays: Volume 1Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the hopes and frustrations of black Africa. This two-volume collection of his plays includes A Dance of the Forests, The Swamp...
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All My SonsCelebrating the Arthur Miller centennial year, an eye-catching new Penguin Plays edition of the work that established him as a leading voice in the American theater In 1947, Arthur Miller exploded onto Broadway with his first major work, All My Sons, winning both the...
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The Twits: A Set of PlaysBased on the beloved novel from the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda There's a part to suit everyone in these plays from Roald Dahl's The Twits. Make Mr. Twit eat wormy spaghetti, stick a frog in Mrs. Twit's bed, or...
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Hedda Gabler and Other PlaysA collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in theater A Penguin Classic One of the most renowned playwrights of all time, Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen was an influential figure in the...
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Love's Labor's LostThe 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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Medea and Other PlaysFour plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods. Author: EuripidesPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 04/29/2003Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.75h x 5.09w x 0.65dISBN: 9780140449297Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorEuripides, the youngest of the three great...
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The Miser and Other Plays: A New SelectionThis volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to...
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The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The EumenidesThe only surviving trilogy from ancient times - a story of murder, madness and justice Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the...
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How Shakespeare Changed EverythingNearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage heartthrobs we worship to the political rhetoric spewed by the twenty-four-hour news cycle. In the pages of this wickedly clever little book, Esquire columnist...
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I'll Be Seein' Ya: A Play: With the InsolvenciesTwo searing, incisive plays from Jon Robin Baitz, Tony Award nominee and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Allie Murchow, a retired Hollywood makeup artist, is stuck inside her apartment, stuck in her daydreams of bygone celebrity and glamour, and stuck on hold with her pharmacist....
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