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A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.00
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play... Read more >
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.00
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play... Read more >
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Inherit the Wind
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Format: Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $6.99
The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their... Read more >
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Format: Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $6.99
The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king–and thus, seals his own... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king–and thus, seals his own... Read more >
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eBook and a
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.00
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism. Read more >
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.00
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism. Read more >
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The Vagina Monologues
The V-Day Edition
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $12.95
A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of... Read more >
The V-Day Edition
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $12.95
A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of... Read more >
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Fires in the Mirror
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1993
Price: $14.00
Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on current Black-White tensions as it is a work of drama. Read more >
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1993
Price: $14.00
Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on current Black-White tensions as it is a work of drama. Read more >
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A Man for All Seasons
Written by Robert Bolt
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $9.95
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII. Read more >
Written by Robert Bolt
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $9.95
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII. Read more >
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The Laramie Project
Written by Moises Kaufman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.00
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the... Read more >
Written by Moises Kaufman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.00
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Vagina Monologues
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred... Read more >
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred... Read more >
