Five Modern No Plays
Written by Yukio Mishima
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the...
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Imaginary Friends
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 25, 2009
Price: $12.00
Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, “including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” The...
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Master Harold and the Boys
Written by Athol Fugard
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $12.95
This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story. Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse borders and time...
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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.
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Faustus
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $12.00
Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus.
Mamet’s Faustus—like Marlowe’s and Goethe’s before him—is a philosopher whose...
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You Can Count on Me
A Screenplay
Written by Kenneth Lonergan
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2009
Price: $12.00
Acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s
You Can Count on Me is one of the most highly praised independent films of recent years, earning many of the major screenplay awards.
This is the lovingly drawn story of a sister and brother’s complicated, fragile, but somehow enduring bond. Sammy and Terry Prescott were orphaned as...
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Four Comedies
The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
The Taming of the ShrewRobust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee.
A Midsummer Night's DreamFairy magic, love...
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Henry IV, Part Two
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $4.99
The stirring continuation of the themes begun in
Henry IV, Part One again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scenes between bawdy tavern and regal court, between revelry and politics, Shakespeare probes at the sources, uses, and responsibilities...
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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...
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The Late Romances
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook, 848 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
PericlesThe first of Shakespeare’s late romances moves spectacularly from one dramatic period to another as the hero, Pericles, sails off to adventure and love, and experiences what for him is a miracle.
CymbelineA favorite romantic drama, this play of a wife unjustly accused of faithlessness moves from a world of intrigue and...
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Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and All's Well that Ends Well
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and...
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Three Classical Tragedies
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
Titus Andronicus * Timon of Athens * Coriolanus
Each Edition Includes:
Comprehensive explanatory notes placed on pages facing the text of the play
Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship
Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English
Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories
An interpretive essay on...
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Henry IV, Part 1
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $5.95
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.
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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: $5.95
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.
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Henry IV, Part 2
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $5.95
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.
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