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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Seven GuitarsPulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen...
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M. Butterfly: With an Afterword by the PlaywrightWinner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen "A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that...
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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by EuripidesNow in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was...
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Frankenstein: Based on the Novel by Mary ShelleySlowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to...
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Faust, Part OneThis new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent"...
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Faust I & II, Volume 2: Goethe's Collected Works - Updated EditionOne of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural...
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Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five ActsThis is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant...
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A Man for All SeasonsThe dramatization of Sir Thomas More's historic conflict with Henry VIII--a compelling portrait of a courageous man who died for his convictions and a modern classic that "challenges the mind, and, in the end, touches the heart" (New York Times). Sir Thomas More--the brilliant...
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The SonnetsThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 A Penguin Classic This edition of The Sonnets is...
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The Merchant of VeniceThe 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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The Comedy of ErrorsThe authoritative edition of The Comedy of Errors from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is the slapstick farce of his youth. In it, the lost twin sons of...
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Red in the MorningPicking up mere seconds from where Red At Night left off, Maine blue-collar author Jerry Farnham takes us back into the lives of Jack Finn and Melissa Andrews. How will the new couple handle pregnancy? How will they handle living together? Will Jack leave...
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Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the CenturyA classic work of American theatre, based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in defense of a schoolteacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately...
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Endgame and Act Without WordsSamuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English...
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Doubt"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth...
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Cyrano de BergeracWidely considered the most popular modern French play, Cyrano de Bergerac has dazzled audiences with its wit and eloquence since it premiered in 1897.Cyrano, a quarrelsome, hot-tempered swordsman, as famous for his dueling skills and pugnacity as for his inordinately long nose, is hopelessly...
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Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays (Revised Edition)Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateWinner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a PlayA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of...
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An OresteiaCarson's translation combines contemporary language with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up this ancient tale of vengeance to a modern audience and revealing the essential wit and morbidity of the original plays. In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines...
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Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie MakingA master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This new revised and expanded edition features great photos throughout, with chapters...
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Twelfth NightThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition This edition of Twelfth Night is edited with an introduction by Jonathan Crewe and was recently repackaged with cover...
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