Shakespeare After All
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $22.00
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...
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All in the Timing
Fourteen Plays
Written by David Ives
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 8, 1994
Price: $16.95
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...
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Romeo and Juliet
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $4.99
In a society dominated by religion and bound by ties of strict family loyalty, two teenagers are trapped by their secret love. As a dangerous vendetta spills onto the streets, the young lovers are forced to risk all to be together in Shakespeare’s fast-paced tragedy of thwarted love.
Under the editorial supervision...
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The Tragedy of Mister Morn
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.00
For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy.
The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923–1924, when Nabokov was completely unknown. The...
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King Lear
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...
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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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Sam Shepard: Seven Plays
Written by Sam Shepard
Introduction by Richard Gilman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $16.00
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.
"One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."—
The New Yorker"The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft...
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The Sunset Limited
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $14.95
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins...
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True and False
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.00
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. With these words, one of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting, in a book that is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as...
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