A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Introduction by Robert Nemiroff
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: August 22, 1995
Price: $15.95
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before
A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling...
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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...
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Plays of Oscar Wilde
Written by Oscar Wilde
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1988
Price: $16.00
This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an...
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Playing Shakespeare
An Actor's Guide
Written by John Barton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $15.00
Now in its first American edition,
Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright.
Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage...
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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
“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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Six Plays by Lillian Hellman
Written by Lillian Hellman
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1979
Price: $17.95
These six plays span nearly twenty years of theatre and display the range of Lillian Hellman's dramatic gifts. The Children's Hour (1934), her first play, was considered shocking at the time; it concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers. Days to Come...
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