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Julius Caesar
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $8.00
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $8.00
“It must be by his death.”
—Julius Caesar
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this masterpiece of political power play and manipulation—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including:
• an original Introduction to Julius Caesar
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital...
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Julius Caesar
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $4.99
In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides of March”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends, Romans, countrymen!” Ironies abound and most... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $4.99
In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides of March”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends, Romans, countrymen!” Ironies abound and most... Read more >
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $2.99
“Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”
—The Merry Wives of Windsor
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including
• an original Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor
• incisive... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $2.99
“Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”
—The Merry Wives of Windsor
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including
• an original Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor
• incisive... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $8.00
“Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”
—The Merry Wives of Windsor
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including
• an original Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor
• incisive... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $8.00
“Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”
—The Merry Wives of Windsor
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including
• an original Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor
• incisive... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Palm at the End of the Mind
Selected Poems and a Play
Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by Holly Stevens
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $12.99
A collection that all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career. Edited by Holly Stevens, it includes some poems not printed in his earlier Collected Works.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Selected Poems and a Play
Written by Wallace Stevens
Edited by Holly Stevens
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $12.99
A collection that all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career. Edited by Holly Stevens, it includes some poems not printed in his earlier Collected Works.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Shorter, Faster, Funnier
Comic Plays and Monologues
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.95
Comic Plays and Monologues
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.95
This cornucopia of comedy showcases works by major playwrights and emerging young writers, with casts of all sizes and diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. You’ll discover such colorful characters as a businessman free-falling from a plane, an embittered sword swallower, a punkish girl skateboarder, and...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Shorter, Faster, Funnier
Comic Plays and Monologues
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: eBook, 450 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $14.99
Comic Plays and Monologues
Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Format: eBook, 450 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $14.99
This cornucopia of comedy showcases works by major playwrights and emerging young writers, with casts of all sizes and diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. You’ll discover such colorful characters as a businessman free-falling from a plane, an embittered sword swallower, a punkish girl skateboarder, and...
Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Complete Plays
Written by John M. Synge
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $9.99
This volume includes the complete texts of all the plays by J.M. Synge. Produced at the Abbey Theater which Synge founded. Represents one of the major dramatic achievements of the 20th century.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by John M. Synge
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $9.99
This volume includes the complete texts of all the plays by J.M. Synge. Produced at the Abbey Theater which Synge founded. Represents one of the major dramatic achievements of the 20th century.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
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Man of La Mancha
Written by Dale Wasserman
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $7.99
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 >
Written by Dale Wasserman
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $7.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
November
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
David Mamet's new Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff... Read more >
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
David Mamet's new Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Kicking a Dead Horse
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $8.99
A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his “Great Sojourn,” things are looking bleak. His... Read more >
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $8.99
A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his “Great Sojourn,” things are looking bleak. His... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Cabin
Reminiscence and Diversions
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2011
Price: $8.99
In these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.
The pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David Mamet helplessly watched his stepfather... Read more >
Reminiscence and Diversions
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2011
Price: $8.99
In these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.
The pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David Mamet helplessly watched his stepfather... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Lolita: A Screenplay
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $11.99
The screenplay for Kubrik's 1962 film tells the story of an older man's obsession with a young girl. Read more >
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $11.99
The screenplay for Kubrik's 1962 film tells the story of an older man's obsession with a young girl. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
Written by David Drake
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2011
Price: $13.99
David Drake's smash hit one-man show tells the story of his call to gay pride and activism through a series of vignettes exploring thoughts and emotions shared by a whole generation of gay men and women.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by David Drake
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2011
Price: $13.99
David Drake's smash hit one-man show tells the story of his call to gay pride and activism through a series of vignettes exploring thoughts and emotions shared by a whole generation of gay men and women.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
La Muerta y la Doncella
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: "¿Como pueden los represores y... Read more >
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: "¿Como pueden los represores y... Read more >
The World in an Orange
Creating Theatre with Barney Simon
Written by Irene Stephanou and Leila Henriques
Edited by Lionel Abrahams and Jane Fox
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $50.00
Barney Simon (1932–1995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator ofthe Market Theatre in Johannesburg, one of the most influential and distinguished theatres in South Africa and the world. He workshopped, wrote, and directed unforgettable and pertinent plays in his quest to "hold a mirror up high to society." These... Read more >
Creating Theatre with Barney Simon
Written by Irene Stephanou and Leila Henriques
Edited by Lionel Abrahams and Jane Fox
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $50.00
Barney Simon (1932–1995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator ofthe Market Theatre in Johannesburg, one of the most influential and distinguished theatres in South Africa and the world. He workshopped, wrote, and directed unforgettable and pertinent plays in his quest to "hold a mirror up high to society." These... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Duchess of Malfi
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
Edited by Frank Kermode
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $9.99
Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The... Read more >
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
Edited by Frank Kermode
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $9.99
Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Plays of Oscar Wilde
Written by Oscar Wilde
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an... Read more >
Written by Oscar Wilde
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
All in the Timing
Fourteen Plays
Written by David Ives
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $14.99
The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton... Read more >
Fourteen Plays
Written by David Ives
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $14.99
The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Playing Shakespeare
An Actor's Guide
Written by John Barton
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $11.99
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: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $11.99
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 >
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trade paperback.
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Belle Moral
A Natural History
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 22, 2010
Price: $12.99
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s love of the fabulous is in full force with this multi-layered reworking of her earlier play, The Arab’s Mouth.
Following her father’s death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family’s past, which her father had been kept hidden with the help of the family doctor... Read more >
A Natural History
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 22, 2010
Price: $12.99
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s love of the fabulous is in full force with this multi-layered reworking of her earlier play, The Arab’s Mouth.
Following her father’s death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family’s past, which her father had been kept hidden with the help of the family doctor... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $18.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $18.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Measure for Measure
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $2.99
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 >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $2.99
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 >
Also available as a
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 >
