William Shakespeare Complete Works
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Hardcover, 2560 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $75.00
FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.
Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with...
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Noises Off
Written by Michael Frayn
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.99
Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award—winning author of
Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce,
Nothing On, and the backstage “drama” that develops during
Nothing On’s final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from
Nothing...
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Imaginary Friends
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $12.00
Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, “including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” The...
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Cymbeline
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $8.00
“Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”—Cymbeline Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic tragedy in which nothing is as it seems.
THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: • an original Introduction to
Cymbeline• incisive...
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Three One-Act Plays
Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
Written by Woody Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine
Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal...
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Requiem for a Nun
Written by William Faulkner
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $15.00
This sequel to Faulkner’s most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder...
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Five Modern No Plays
Written by Yukio Mishima
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.95
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the...
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Coriolanus
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $8.00
“O mother, mother! What have you done?”
—CoriolanusEminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this gripping political and personal tragedy—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including
• an original Introduction to
Coriolanus• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the...
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As You Like It
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $1.99
This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare’s loveliest poetry, contrasts a court’s world of envy and rivalry with a forest’s world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool...
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Twelfth Night
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $4.99
Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming “Count Malvolio” only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers...
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