Pygmalion and Major Barbara

Written by George Bernard Shaw

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $1.99

George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter.

In one of his best-loved plays, Pygmalion, which later became the basis for the musical My Fair... Read more >

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... Read more >

Romance

Written by David Mamet

Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $11.99

Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors.
It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a... Read more >

All's Well That Ends Well

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $7.99

“A young man married is a man that’s marr’d.”
—All’s Well That Ends Well
 
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic play about gender, desire, and sexual love.
 
THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
 
• an original Introduction to All’s... Read more >

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 >

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... Read more >

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 >

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

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...

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Almost an Evening

Written by Ethan Coen

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $11.99

Three satiric plays by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan Coen

Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading–the Coen brothers’ films are some of the most critically acclaimed and iconic of our time. Now, one half of the duo, Ethan Coen, adds playwriting to his eclectic bio. In these three short... Read more >

The God of Hell

Written by Sam Shepard

Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2010
Price: $10.99

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... Read more >