Macbeth

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $2.99

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 >

The Good Body

Written by Eve Ensler

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $11.99

Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore... Read more >

Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays

Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 25, 1997
Price: $15.95

A ten-minute play is a streak of theatrical lightning. It doesn't last long, but its power can stand your hair on end. This splendid anthology contains enough wattage to light up a small city. For in its pages, thirty-two of our finest playwrights hone their skills on a form that has... Read more >

Shakespeare After All

Written by Marjorie Garber

Format: eBook, 1008 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $20.99

A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate... Read more >

Lolita: A Screenplay

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $11.99

The screenplay for Kubrik's 1962 film tells the story of an older man's obsession with a young girl. Read more >

All in the Timing
Fourteen Plays
Written by David Ives

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $14.99

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton... Read more >

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple
Written by Salman Rushdie

Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $11.99

The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.

In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great... Read more >

Four Comedies
The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan

Format: Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $6.99

The Taming of the Shrew
Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Fairy magic, love... Read more >

Noises Off

Written by Michael Frayn

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $15.00

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... Read more >

Measure for Measure

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $2.99

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 >