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The Journalists: A Triptych	Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (Performance Interventions) Best Price: $83.86 Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary...	Howard Barker: Politics and Desire: An Expository Study of His Drama and Poetry, 1969-87 Best Price: $24.25 This is a new, revised and updated paperback edition of the critically acclaimed...	Shakespeare and the Jews Best Price: $22.78 The information in this book will astonish one regarding how deeply the English were obsessed...	Hansberry's Drama: COMMITMENT AMID COMPLEXITY Best Price: $63.08



A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage (Drama and Performance Studies) Best Price: $12.95 A Century of Irish Drama Widening the Stage Edited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir...	Melodrama and the Myth of America (Drama and Performance Studies) Best Price: $0.39 This book studies how popular theater can act as the vehicle for the construction of American...	Bishop of Everywhere: Bernard Shaw and the Life Force The Prologue presents three aspects of Shaw's personality as they are revealed in John...	1992: Shaw and the Last Hundred Years (v. 14) Best Price: $49.95 In 1892 the first production of Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, heralded...	Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) (No 63) Best Price: $8.50 This work focuses on Marlowe's works as an index of the major transformation of Elizabethan...



Best Radio Plays of 1982: The Bbc Giles Cooper Award Winners (Metheun Modern Plays Series)	The Cherry Orchard (Modern Plays) Best Price: $12.21	London Assurance (Theatre Classics) New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume...	Voyage Round My Father (Modern Plays) Human relationship, in all their complexities, are John Mortimer's primary concern. This...	Classical Monologues for Women Best Price: $12.99 This is a wonderful book filled with monologues from serious to comic plays.I enjoyed the...

New American Plays Two Best Price: $8.66 An anthology of four American Plays.	Sharing the Delirium: Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances Best Price: $0.01 I was so relieved to find this book and really get into the new generation of theatre works...	Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Cen (Everyman's Library (Paper)) Best Price: $0.99 From Romantic verse drama to historical tragrdy, this collection of plays is a necessary...	Under Milk Wood Pb (Everyman Paperbacks) Written in 1951,two years before Thomas's death at the age of 39,Under Milk Woodis the...	The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642 Best Price: $26.49 Created in 1594, the theater company in which Shakespeare acted and which staged all his plays...

Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time: The Art of Stage Playing Best Price: $67.39 John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and...	Restoration Comedy in Performance Best Price: $140.83 Restoration comedy disappeared from the stage for nearly 200 years until it was revived early...	Plays by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton: Inkle and Yarico, The Surrender of Calais, The Children in the Wood, Blue Beard or Female ... the Plough (British and American Playwrights) This volume contains edited texts of five plays by two late eighteenth-century dramatists. The...	The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) Best Price: $75.96 The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a...	Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Best Price: $38.00 This is the one -- groaty to the very core, fire-minted with economic insight and saucier than a...

Shakespeare Survey 51: Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (v. 51) Best Price: $5.15 Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has...	Romeo and Juliet: BBC Dramatization (BBC Radio Presents) Best Price: $193.10 This radio adaptation is interesting in some ways, but it remains rather short on its objective....	The Beaux-Stratagem Best Price: $24.94 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...	T.S. Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Modern Dramatists Research and Production Sourcebooks) Best Price: $45.95 Though better known for his poetry, T. S. Eliot wrote seven important plays between 1926 and...	August Wilson: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Modern Dramatists Research and Production Sourcebooks) Best Price: $98.95 When Ma Rainey's Black Bottom opened in 1984, August Wilson was unknown in theatre. By 1988...

W B Yeats and the Creation of a Tragic U (Studies in Anglo-Irish literature) Best Price: $358.49	Brodie's Notes on Dylan Thomas's Under the Milk Wood Pb Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book...	Beckett and the Mythology of Psychoanalysis Best Price: $176.73 This is the first full length study to consider Beckett's informed but deeply ambivalent...	Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture Best Price: $145.74 Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the...	Five Plays: Cyprian's Prayer, The Crime In The Whistler Room, This Room & This Gin & These Sandwiches, Beppo An Best Price: $23.93 This collection includes The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These...

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Best Price: $4.80 i decided to read gross indecency after seeing something about it on tv. being a big fan of...	The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays Best Price: $8.46 The comments here reflect the larger debate roiling about McDonagh's use of stereotypical...	Bernard Shaw's Plays : Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Too True to Be Good Best Price: $23.94 A bundle of baffling contradictions, G. B. Shaw is a dogmatist's nightmare. Anyone expecting...	The Family Reunion Best Price: $5.89 Following WWII, Eliot published two plays, The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party, both of...	Four Major Plays (World's Classics) Best Price: $5.50 Actually, I've only read two of these plays before but I did want to list the names of the...

Burlesque Plays of the Eighteenth Century (Oxford Paperbacks) Best Price: $7.09 Burlesque plays were written to undermine the artistic pretensions of heroic tragedy, from the...	Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard (The World's Classics) Best Price: $4.89 Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The...	Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.45 The play, The Sea Gull, by Anton Chekhov, though short, contains all of the dramatic aspects of...	Voices of Resurgent Islam Best Price: $27.20 Babbling Sycophancy. To quote Robert Spencer, "John Esposito is hardly alone in having...	The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) (Malone Society Reprints) Originally published in quarto in 1613, The Tragedy of Mariam is the earliest surviving...

Likenesses of Truth in Elizabethan and Restoration Drama Best Price: $114.24	The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume III: Edward II Best Price: $140.00 The first full critical edition of Marlowe's highly controversial Edward II for...	The Alchemist (The Yale Ben Jonson Series) Best Price: $18.21 Renaissance comedy, first produced in 1610. Includes modernized English text, critical and...	Ben Jonson: The Complete Poems (English Poets) One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply...	The Little Tragedies Best Price: $25.57 This is a very nice translation of Pushkin's little but master-piece of genre. I dont have...

Straight Acting: Popular Gay Drama from Wilde to Rattigan (Lesbian and Gay Studies) Best Price: $70.89 This text argues that, haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde as gay man, writer and self-invented...	The Voysey Inheritance Best Price: $5.99 Its like Bernie read this book and then got down to business. What a story!	Six Renaissance Tragedies Best Price: $29.95 These wild and wicked Renaissance romps give many contemporary movies a run for their money when...	Ibsen and Shaw	Introduction to Eighteenth Century Drama, 1700-80

Dramatic Essays Essays on the English theater.	Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) Best Price: $101.95 The tragic drama of Nigeria's leading playwright, Wole Soyinka, is the focus of this...	A Woman of No Importance (Large Print Edition) Best Price: $13.71 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...	The Philanthropist Best Price: $1.98	Squaring the Circle

Wetherby Best Price: $311.15	The Life and Work of Harold Pinter Best Price: $49.44 Having nearly walked out of "The Room" at the Almeida theatre in London, I...	Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Faber Plays) Best Price: $37.64 Though I have read and enjoyed novels from On the Road to The Shipping News to The Iliad, I keep...	Marina Carr: Plays 1: Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats... (Contemporary Classics (Faber & Faber)) (v. 1) Best Price: $13.61 Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new voice in playwrighting. Carr has been...	Ibsen's a Doll's House Best Price: $26.98 This is the script of the recent Donmar Warehouse production of "A Doll's House",...

Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve This book provides an important rereading of dramatic language in the comedies of Etherege,...	King Henry VIII: Or All is True (Oxford Shakespeare) Best Price: $87.97 This is the first fully annotated and comprehensive modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII ...	The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Volume II: Comedies Best Price: $49.90 Now in a convenient paperback format, here are all the known comedies of Shakespeare including: ...	The Winter's Tale (Oxford School Shakespeare) Best Price: $7.95 Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's plays put readers in...	Henry V (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) Best Price: $101.47 The "Oxford School Shakespeare" is a well-established series which helps students...

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan Best Price: $39.05 Tiffany Stern's book offers revelations about the theater based on her extensive research...	Henry Fielding: Plays Volume I: 1728-1731 (Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding) Best Price: $274.00 This is the first of three volumes of plays by Henry Fielding, whose vibrant early career in...	Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age Best Price: $35.00 Tom Lockwood's study is the first examination of Jonson's place in the texts and culture...	Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) (Parts I and II) Best Price: $5.89 I bought this book on a whim. I had always heard good things about Marlowe but had never...	Mickle, Boswell, Garrick and the Siege of Marseilles (Transactions, Vol 46, Pt 5)

Libertine Plays of the Restoration	Volpone and The Alchemist (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $1.40 These much-studied and frequently performed comedies by the great Elizabethan playwright...	The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim Best Price: $80.81 In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going...	The Drama of John Marston: Critical Re-Visions Best Price: $51.00 Celebrating the 400th anniversary of John Marston's debut as a professional playwright, this...	The Works of John Webster: Volume 2, The Devil's Law-Case; A Cure for a Cuckold; Appius and Virginia Best Price: $41.00 The second volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of John Webster contains The Devil's...

The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 2, The Maid's Tragedy, A King and No King, Cupid's Revenge, The Scornful Lady, Love's Pilgrimage Best Price: $61.95 This is the second volume in a ten-volume series of the critical old-spelling texts of the plays...	Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama Best Price: $29.00 Ruby Cohn assumes realism to be the dominant mode in English theatre since 1956, the year of...	Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria Best Price: $40.19 Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria considers Queen Henrietta Maria's patronage of...	Brian Friel, Ireland, and The North (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) Best Price: $35.58 After nearly five decades as one of Ireland's most celebrated playwrights, Brian Friel has...	The Ghosts of Hamlet: The Play and Modern Writers Best Price: $27.12 If the aim of criticism is, in Arnold's phrase, 'to see the object as in itself it...

A Woman of No Importance (Large Print Edition) Best Price: $13.71 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...	The Philanthropist Best Price: $1.98	Squaring the Circle	Wetherby Best Price: $311.15	The Life and Work of Harold Pinter Best Price: $49.44 Having nearly walked out of "The Room" at the Almeida theatre in London, I...

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Faber Plays) Best Price: $37.64 Though I have read and enjoyed novels from On the Road to The Shipping News to The Iliad, I keep...	Marina Carr: Plays 1: Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats... (Contemporary Classics (Faber & Faber)) (v. 1) Best Price: $13.61 Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new voice in playwrighting. Carr has been...	Ibsen's a Doll's House Best Price: $26.98 This is the script of the recent Donmar Warehouse production of "A Doll's House",...

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