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The Stonemason
A Play in Five Acts
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $14.00
From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.
The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have... Read more >
A Play in Five Acts
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $14.00
From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.
The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have... Read more >
Oleanna
A Play
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $9.99
In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between... Read more >
A Play
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $9.99
In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between... Read more >
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Julius Caesar
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $8.00
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $8.00
“It must be by his death.”
—Julius Caesar
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this masterpiece of political power play and manipulation—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including:
• an original Introduction to Julius Caesar
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital...
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Shorter, Faster, Funnier
Comic Plays and Monologues
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.95
Comic Plays and Monologues
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.95
This cornucopia of comedy showcases works by major playwrights and emerging young writers, with casts of all sizes and diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. You’ll discover such colorful characters as a businessman free-falling from a plane, an embittered sword swallower, a punkish girl skateboarder, and...
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As You Like It
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $8.00
Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust, and mistaken identity. One of Shakespeare’s great comedies, As You Like It subverts the traditional rules of... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $8.00
Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust, and mistaken identity. One of Shakespeare’s great comedies, As You Like It subverts the traditional rules of... Read more >
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Measure for Measure
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $5.95
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this powerful play that explores sexual hypocrisy and questions morality at all levels of society. This volume also includes more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including:
• an original Introduction to Measure for Measure
• incisive scene-by-scene... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $5.95
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this powerful play that explores sexual hypocrisy and questions morality at all levels of society. This volume also includes more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including:
• an original Introduction to Measure for Measure
• incisive scene-by-scene... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Winter's Tale
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean... Read more >
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The Lion in Winter
A Play
Written by James Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2004
Price: $9.95
Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play... Read more >
A Play
Written by James Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2004
Price: $9.95
Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play... Read more >
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Shakespeare A to Z
The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More
Written by Charles Boyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1991
Price: $24.00
What famous essayist insisted that Shakespeare's play were unfit for performance?
Which two plays center on the Hundred Years' War?
In which scene of Romeo and Juliet does the nurse report--falsely--that Juliet is dead and thus seal Romeo's tragic fate?
The answers are easily found in Shakespeare A to Z, the only single-volume reference... Read more >
The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More
Written by Charles Boyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1991
Price: $24.00
What famous essayist insisted that Shakespeare's play were unfit for performance?
Which two plays center on the Hundred Years' War?
In which scene of Romeo and Juliet does the nurse report--falsely--that Juliet is dead and thus seal Romeo's tragic fate?
The answers are easily found in Shakespeare A to Z, the only single-volume reference... Read more >
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Romeo and Juliet
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
The magnificent, timeless drama is the world's most famous tale of "star-crossed lovers." The young, unshakable love of Juliet and Romeo defies the feud that divides their families—the Capulets and Montagues—as their desperate need to be together, their secret meetings, and finally their concealed marriage drive them toward tragedy. A masterwork... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
The magnificent, timeless drama is the world's most famous tale of "star-crossed lovers." The young, unshakable love of Juliet and Romeo defies the feud that divides their families—the Capulets and Montagues—as their desperate need to be together, their secret meetings, and finally their concealed marriage drive them toward tragedy. A masterwork... Read more >
