Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $7.99
One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 1, 2012
Price: $7.99
Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies...
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The God of Hell
Written by Sam Shepard
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2010
Price: $9.99
Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma.
Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank’s...
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Boston Marriage
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2010
Price: $11.99
One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room.
Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has...
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Coriolanus
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $7.99
“O mother, mother! What have you done?”
—CoriolanusEminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this gripping political and personal tragedy—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including
• an original Introduction to
Coriolanus• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the...
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Cymbeline
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $7.99
“Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”—Cymbeline Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic tragedy in which nothing is as it seems.
THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: • an original Introduction to
Cymbeline• incisive...
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Troilus and Cressida
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $1.99
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic tragedy of politics and war, honor and love—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including:
• an original Introduction to Troilus and Cressida
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the...
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As You Like It
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $4.99
This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare’s loveliest poetry, contrasts a court’s world of envy and rivalry with a forest’s world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool...
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Henry V
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $4.99
A triumphantly patriotic play that also casts a critical eye at war and warriors, this great epic drama depicts a charismatic ruler in a time of national struggle. The young King Henry’s victory over the French despite overwhelming odds creates a spectacle of action, color, and thundering battles. Whether the warrior-king...
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The Cryptogram
Written by David Mamet
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $9.99
In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace.
The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing—the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers.
On a night in 1959 a boy is...
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