Drama
Discover the best drama books and captivating romance drama novels at our online bookstore, featuring top picks for adults and drama enthusiasts. Find good drama books and best-selling titles that showcase the finest drama in literature, perfect for your next read.
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Clyde'sA funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. In this razor-sharp new comedy, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at reclaiming their lives. Even as the shop's tough-as-nails owner tries to...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete WorksA compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary,...
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Confessions of a Part-Time Monk: A MemoirAn experimental memoir styled as a play, Confessions of a Part-Time Monk shares the ups and downs of one man's quest for truth. Starting from boyhood and his early years as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church and moving through the events leading...
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Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American TheatreIn the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs.The philosophical...
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Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four ActsThis collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta--poet, historian, author, and activist--spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into four parts: poems, essays, a children's story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she...
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I Changed My MindWhat happens when the life we planned doesn't match the life we're living? Traumatic events can cause us to feel stuck and unsure about how to move forward. Kesha was a convicted felon struggling to break free from past physical and psychological abuse. I...
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Tips From A Talent AgentTips from a Talent Agent is an incredibly informative and entertaining step-by-step guide that walks you through all the aspects of show business. It takes you through the collective knowledge necessary to ensure that, if applied correctly, your career as an actor is armed...
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Collusions of Fact & Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara WalkerCollusions of Fact and Fiction traces a generational shift in late twentieth-century African American cultural engagements with the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery. With a focus on works by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and visual artist Kara Walker, the book explores how, in comparison...
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The Gut GirlsPremiéred at London's Albany Empire in 1988 and set in Deptford at the turn of the century this play traces the lives of the girls who work in the gutting sheds of the Cattle Market and how their lives are changed when the sheds...
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Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French StageSubjects of Affection offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in an unexpected archive: the monarchist tragedies that shaped Louis XIV's absolutist France. Pairing political theory with performance studies, Anna Rosensweig argues that the right of resistance, largely thought to have...
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Squad GoalsEveryone has football fever, but not in the usual way. England's Lionesses are tearing up the pitch and making a real name for the female game. Lexi, who never had the opportunity to be taken seriously, inspires a group of school leavers to redefine...
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Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing StageHow do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance and Modernity: Enacting...
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Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts ImaginationIn Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these historically marginalized groups....
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The Two Noble KinsmenTim Slover brings fresh clarity to his contemporary version of Shakespeare's final play. Playwright, poet, and novelist Tim Slover presents William Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's collaboration, The Two Noble Kinsmen, in a modern translation that retains all the wit, romance, and poetry of the...
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Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George TaboriThis volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish...
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John Fletcher's Rome: Questioning the ClassicsJohn Fletcher's Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher's engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, alone or in collaboration, a number of Roman plays: Bonduca, Valentinian, The False One and The Prophetess. Unlike Shakespeare's or Jonson's, however, Fletcher's...
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The Seagull: a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considThe Seagull by Anton ChekhovThe Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between...
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FranziskaGerman playwright Frank Wedekind has profoundly influenced modern drama, and became an inspiration to Brecht and Reinhardt among others. In this extraordinary play, Franziska, a 'female Faust', is consumed by a deep thirst for self-knowledge. She makes a pact a Mephistophelean impresario who grants...
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Githa Sowerby: Three Plays: Rutherford and Son, a Man and Some Women, the Stepmother"Githa Sowerby's Rutherford and Son took the London theatre by storm in 1912. Following its triumphant run, the play toured to New York, was produced throughout England, and was translated and staged in multiple European locations. Yet Sowerby's initial theatrical success would not be...
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Log CabinIt's a faraway age of hope and inclusivity; in other words, it's 2015. When a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians - comfy in the new mainstream - see themselves through the eyes of their rakish transgender pal, it's clear that the march...
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