Three Uses of the Knife
On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
Written by David Mamet

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $13.00

The purpose of theater, like magic like religion…ids to inspire cleansing awe. With bracing directness and aphoristic authority, one of our greatest living playwrights addresses the questions: What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet believes that the...

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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... Read more >

Twelfth Night

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $8.00

A pair of twins are separated by a shipwreck, each believing the other has drowned. A lovesick duke woos a countess deep in mourning for her brother, while her rowdy household plots the downfall of her puritanical steward. Disguise, confusion, and mistaken identity follow in Shakespeare’s great comedy of love in... Read more >

Measure for Measure

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $5.95

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 >

Man of La Mancha

Written by Dale Wasserman

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1966
Price: $11.00

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Musical, 1966

"To me the most interesting aspect of the success of Man of La Mancha is the fact that it plows squarely upstream against the prevailing current of philosophy in the theater. That current is best identified by its catch-labels--Theater of... Read more >

Much Ado About Nothing

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $8.00

Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play turns on the archetypal story of a lady falsely accused of unfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicated and reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceits threaten to darken the brilliant humor and sparkling wordplay–but the hilarious counterplot... Read more >

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... 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 >

As You Like It

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $8.00

Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust, and mistaken identity. One of Shakespeare’s great comedies, As You Like It subverts the traditional rules of... 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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