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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Shakespeare After All
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $23.00
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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Fool for Love and Other Plays
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1984
Price: $16.00
Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what
The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies.
FOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE...
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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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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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Buried Child
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize—winning
Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents...
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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...
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The Winter's Tale
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own,
The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean...
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Laugh Lines
Short Comic Plays
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $18.00
This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into peals of laughter.
From the surrealistic wit of Steve Martin's "The Zig-Zag Woman" to the biting political satire of Steven Dietz's "The Spot," from Christopher Durang's wonderfully...
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Henry IV, Part 1
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $1.99
Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of history, comedy, and tragedy.
Under the editorial...
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