The Amen Corner
A Play
Written by James Baldwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $12.95

Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with... Read more >

Antony and Cleopatra

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $1.99

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . ... Read more >

Caligula and Three Other Plays

Written by Albert Camus

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $7.99

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Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $18.00

“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

Written by Sophocles

Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1991
Price: $6.99

Oedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • Ajax
Trachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus

The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the... Read more >

Julius Caesar

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $4.99

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides of March”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends, Romans, countrymen!” Ironies abound and most... Read more >

Macbeth

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan

Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99

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 >

Titus Andronicus & Timon of Athens

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $10.00

“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”
—Titus Andronicus
 
“We have seen better days.”
—Timon of Athens
 
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of the two great tragedies: Titus Adronicus, a graphic story of revenge, and Timon of Athens, a cautionary tale about false friends and unearned loyalty.
 
THIS... Read more >

Plays for Actresses

Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: March 25, 1997
Price: $19.95

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Picnic

Written by William Inge

Format: eBook, 72 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $11.99

This title collects four plays by American playwright William Inge, including Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Read more >