The Laramie Project
Written by Moises Kaufman
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2010
Price: $13.99
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...
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The Vagina Monologues
The V-Day Edition
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2001
Price: $13.99
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. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women's stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery.
Celebrated...
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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: $14.95
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.
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Master Harold and the Boys
Written by Athol Fugard
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $12.95
This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story. Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse borders and time...
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The Vagina Monologues
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
"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...
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Much Ado About Nothing
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $8.00
Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play turns on the archetypal story of a lady falsely accused of unfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicated and reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceits threaten to darken the brilliant humor and sparkling wordplay–but the hilarious counterplot...
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Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, filled with fierce, violent action,
Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt in a world of blood and darkness, with whispers of the supernatural.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...
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King Lear
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...
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A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 13, 1995
Price: $15.00
By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city. Barely...
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