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Greek Drama
Written by Moses Hadas
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $1.99
In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction... Read more >
Written by Moses Hadas
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $1.99
In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction... Read more >
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Henry IV, Part 2
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $4.99
After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare’s portrait of the prodigal son’s journey from youth to maturity embraces the full panorama of society.
Under the editorial supervision... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $4.99
After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare’s portrait of the prodigal son’s journey from youth to maturity embraces the full panorama of society.
Under the editorial supervision... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Richard II
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 Richard II, chronologically the first of the eight plays in Shakespeare’s History Cycle, which marks the beginning of a great schism within the nobility of England that will leave the nation riven by bloody conflict for the... Read more >
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 Richard II, chronologically the first of the eight plays in Shakespeare’s History Cycle, which marks the beginning of a great schism within the nobility of England that will leave the nation riven by bloody conflict for the... Read more >
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Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
Introduction by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Now in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself... Read more >
Four Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
Introduction by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Now in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself... Read more >
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Three Plays
Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra
Written by Eugene O'Neill
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $15.95
These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts. Read more >
Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra
Written by Eugene O'Neill
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $15.95
These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts. Read more >
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Shakespeare After All
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: eBook, 1008 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $18.99
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 >
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: eBook, 1008 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $18.99
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 >
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Oleanna
A Play
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1993
Price: $14.95
In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between... Read more >
A Play
Written by David Mamet
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1993
Price: $14.95
In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Tempest
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore—as well as to... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore—as well as to... Read more >
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Henry IV, Part One
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $4.99
A play alive with escapades and action, comedy and history, Henry IV, Part One begins the transformation of the madcap Prince Hal into the splendid ruler King Henry. In it a rebellion against King and State is juxtaposed with another rebellion–the riotous misbehavior of Hal and his companions, principally Falstaff. A... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $4.99
A play alive with escapades and action, comedy and history, Henry IV, Part One begins the transformation of the madcap Prince Hal into the splendid ruler King Henry. In it a rebellion against King and State is juxtaposed with another rebellion–the riotous misbehavior of Hal and his companions, principally Falstaff. A... Read more >
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Playing Shakespeare
An Actor's Guide
Written by John Barton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $15.00
Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright.
Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage... Read more >
An Actor's Guide
Written by John Barton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $15.00
Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright.
Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
