341 books in Drama
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Four Tragedies
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $7.99
Hamlet
One of the most famous plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the young prince of Denmark who must reconcile his longing for oblivion with his duty to avenge his father’s murder is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. The ghost, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, and... Read more >
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $7.99
Hamlet
One of the most famous plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the young prince of Denmark who must reconcile his longing for oblivion with his duty to avenge his father’s murder is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. The ghost, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, and... Read more >
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The Lion in Winter
A Play
Written by James Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2004
Price: $9.95
Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play... Read more >
A Play
Written by James Goldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2004
Price: $9.95
Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play... Read more >
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The Sunset Limited
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2010
Price: $13.99
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... Read more >
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2010
Price: $13.99
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Noises Off
Written by Michael Frayn
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $15.00
Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award—winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage “drama” that develops during Nothing On’s final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from Nothing... Read more >
Written by Michael Frayn
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $15.00
Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award—winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage “drama” that develops during Nothing On’s final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from Nothing... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
True and False
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $11.99
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... Read more >
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $11.99
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
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 >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
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 >
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Richard II
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $2.99
This moving and eloquent historical drama depicts the conflict between a willful and arrogant poet of a king, Richard II, and his politically pragmatic cousin, Bolingbroke. Rich with memorable scenes and speeches, this lyrical history moves from a splendid medieval tournament to the poignant surrender of a crown; from the queen’s... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $2.99
This moving and eloquent historical drama depicts the conflict between a willful and arrogant poet of a king, Richard II, and his politically pragmatic cousin, Bolingbroke. Rich with memorable scenes and speeches, this lyrical history moves from a splendid medieval tournament to the poignant surrender of a crown; from the queen’s... Read more >
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The Taming of the Shrew
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $4.99
A robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popular comedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio. Their boisterous conflict is set off against a more conventional romantic plot involving the wooing of Katharina’s lovely and compliant... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $4.99
A robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popular comedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio. Their boisterous conflict is set off against a more conventional romantic plot involving the wooing of Katharina’s lovely and compliant... Read more >
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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 >
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 >
