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The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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I read Philip Vellacott's translation of The Bacchae and The Women of Troy by Euripides for...
Andromache; Britannicus; Berenice (Penguin Classics)Andromache; Britannicus; Berenice (Penguin Classics)
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The three works in this volume established Racine as a playwright who enjoyed high favour both...
Four Russian Plays (Penguin Classics)Four Russian Plays (Penguin Classics)The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The EumenidesThe Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
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As a great classic 'The Oresteia' by Aeschylus merits a full 5 stars. I will, however,...
The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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Euripedes is one of the greatest dramatists in the history of the west, and the Bacchae is one...


Brand: A Version for the Stage by Geoffrey Hill (Penguin Classics)Brand: A Version for the Stage by Geoffrey Hill (Penguin Classics)
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This is unmistakeably Hill's _Brand_: the technical grace of his Englishing of Ibsen shows...
Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
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The Penguin version of Buchner's works is quite good, especially if you're in a...
Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 2)Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 2)
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A major new translation of one of the greatest dramatic-poetic works in all of German literature...
Love Girl and the InnocentLove Girl and the InnocentThree Plays. The Respectable Prostitute. Lucifer and the Lord. In CameraThree Plays. The Respectable Prostitute. Lucifer and the Lord. In Camera


Flood; Onkel, Onkel; Only Ten Minutes To Buffalo; The Wicked CooksFlood; Onkel, Onkel; Only Ten Minutes To Buffalo; The Wicked CooksThe Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Plays, Penguin)The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Plays, Penguin)
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The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is an engaging play, one that provides the reader (or viewer) with as...
King Henry V (Penguin Shakespeare S)King Henry V (Penguin Shakespeare S)Henry IV, Part 1 (Penguin) (Shakespeare, Penguin) (Pt.1)Henry IV, Part 1 (Penguin) (Shakespeare, Penguin) (Pt.1)
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This edition of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 uses a variety of approaches to Shakespeare,...
Macbeth (Shakespeare, Pelican)Macbeth (Shakespeare, Pelican)
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I first read this play in high school but have never seen it played. It has lost none of the...

The Two Noble KinsmenThe Two Noble Kinsmen
Part of "The New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this text looks at "The Two Noble...
Comedy of Errors, The (Penguin) (Shakespeare, Penguin)Comedy of Errors, The (Penguin) (Shakespeare, Penguin)
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Hilarious fun, this early comedy is filled with the merry violence of slapstick and farce. When...
Othello (The New Penguin Shakespeare)Othello (The New Penguin Shakespeare)
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"Bloody farce" was the indictment of "Othello" made by the...
The Great Speeches: A Celebration in Words and Music (Penguin Audiobooks)The Great Speeches: A Celebration in Words and Music (Penguin Audiobooks)
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Read by some of the leading Shakespearean actors of our day, including Sir John Gielgud and...
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Penguin Shakespeare)Two Gentlemen of Verona (Penguin Shakespeare)
This was one of Shakespeare's plays that never enjoyed much popularity. Many of you will...

Three Elizabethan Domestic TragediesThree Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies
Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people,...
King Lear (Archangel)King Lear (Archangel)
When foolish King Lear abdicates both his kingdom and his responsibilities, and makes...
Three ExposuresThree Exposures
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Three Exposures by Guare, John
Cats: The Book of the MusicalCats: The Book of the Musical
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Even despite the closure of the Broadway production, you can still relive the experience and...
The School for Wives: Comedy in Five Acts, 1662The School for Wives: Comedy in Five Acts, 1662
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An adaptation, in rhymed verse, of this classic play.

Silas Marner (Dramascripts)Silas Marner (Dramascripts)
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20 reading parts.
Billy Liar: Play (Student drama series)Billy Liar: Play (Student drama series)
This series aims to offer quality literature which is accessible to young readers in the 11-16...
Shakespeare's Sonnets (3rd Series)Shakespeare's Sonnets (3rd Series)
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Let me be very clear as to why I give this book a full five stars... it makes Shakespeare's...
Love's Labour's Lost (3rd Series)Love's Labour's Lost (3rd Series)
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This edition of Love''s Labour''s lost provide s a clear and authoritative text,...
Presenting Shakespeare (Drama)Presenting Shakespeare (Drama)

Arden Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream: (2nd Series)Arden Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream: (2nd Series)
Newly revised, this comic play by Shakespeare features a new Introduction by Sylvan Barnet,...
Larins Sahib (Three Crowns)Larins Sahib (Three Crowns)Candle in the WindCandle in the WindALCESTIS (THE GREEK TRAGEDY IN NEW TRANSLATIONS)ALCESTIS (THE GREEK TRAGEDY IN NEW TRANSLATIONS)A Dictionary of Modern DesignA Dictionary of Modern Design
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This fascinating new dictionary covers the period from the mid-nineteenth to the end of the...

Ben Jonson (Oxford Authors)Ben Jonson (Oxford Authors)
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This edition presents Jonson's popular comedies Volpone and The Alchemist; the complete...
Othello (Oxford World's Classics)Othello (Oxford World's Classics)
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This is a thoroughly edited and explained version of Othello. The introduction and other...
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Oxford English Texts)The Merry Wives of Windsor (Oxford English Texts)
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When a new play was required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597, Shakespeare created ...
Selected Letters, 1796-1817 (Oxford Paperbacks)Selected Letters, 1796-1817 (Oxford Paperbacks)
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This being my first experience with reading a series of actual letters, I found that I had to...
Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His ContemporariesConversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries
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Refreshingly different from a standard biographical work, it reads more like a series of...

Cyclops (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations)Cyclops (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create...
Microeconomics: Problems and SolutionsMicroeconomics: Problems and Solutions
This book offers an opportunity for students to practise the art of problem-solving in economics...
The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty YearsThe Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years
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On a warm, humid night in June of 1962, four amateur actors sat on stools in the Court House of...
The Action of English Comedy: Studies in the Encounter of Abstraction and Experience from Shakespeare to ShawThe Action of English Comedy: Studies in the Encounter of Abstraction and Experience from Shakespeare to Shaw
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This text analyzes the works of varied writers in the comic tradition: Sheridan, Fielding,...
Poetics, Plays and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre (Oxford India Paperbacks)Poetics, Plays and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre (Oxford India Paperbacks)
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This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its...

As You Like It (Oxford School Shakespeare)As You Like It (Oxford School Shakespeare)The Taming of A Shrew 1594 (The Malone Society Reprints)The Taming of A Shrew 1594 (The Malone Society Reprints)
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The anonymous comedy, The Taming of a Shrew , was printed by Peter Short in 1594, and is...
Shakespeare's "Tempest": The tempest: a concordance to the text of the first folio (Oxford Shakespeare Concordances)Shakespeare's "Tempest": The tempest: a concordance to the text of the first folio (Oxford Shakespeare Concordances)Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of SenecaShakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca
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This book charts the influence of Seneca--both as specific text and inherited tradition--through...
Motives of Woe: Shakespeare and "Female Complaint", A Critical AnthologyMotives of Woe: Shakespeare and "Female Complaint", A Critical Anthology
Best Price: $140.00
This anthology recovers a tradition of writing to which some of the greatest medieval and...

Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 ApparatusShakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus
Best Price: $125.00
This study challenges traditional treatments of Shakespeare through a study of their textual...
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume 1, Poems and Poems in ProseThe Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume 1, Poems and Poems in Prose
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This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works...
The Works of George Farquhar: Volume IIThe Works of George Farquhar: Volume II
Best Price: $273.00
George Farquhar (1678-1707) was perhaps the best, and certainly the most popular, playwright to...
The Tragic PlaneThe Tragic Plane
What constitutes tragedy? This study examines some of the world's greatest tragic dramas...
Macbeth (Oxford English Texts)Macbeth (Oxford English Texts)
Best Price: $62.95
"Macbeth", probably written in 1606, was not printed until the First Folio in 1623,...

Hamlet (Oxford Shakespeare)Hamlet (Oxford Shakespeare)
Best Price: $146.82
This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely...
Henry IV, Part I (Oxford Shakespeare) (Pt.1)Henry IV, Part I (Oxford Shakespeare) (Pt.1)
Best Price: $43.45
During Shakespeare's lifetime, I Henry IV was his most popular play, and today, as in the...
The Homeric Hymn to DemeterThe Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Best Price: $106.66
Agamemnon: 3 volumesAgamemnon: 3 volumes
My friend Vikki from M.A. wrote and told me how much she liked this. When I was in school this...
Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare)Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
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This is one of Shakespeare's plays I have liked best so far (I still have several ones left...

The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard
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As I read this play, my family is in the process of moving a thousand miles away from the farm...
The Art of Gormenghast: The Making of a Television FantasyThe Art of Gormenghast: The Making of a Television Fantasy
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I read the "Gormenghast" books by Mervyn Peake about 15 years ago, and their spell has...
Five Christmas Programs for ChildrenFive Christmas Programs for Children
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Getting Mother's BodyGetting Mother's BodyMagic of TheaterMagic of Theater
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The Collected Poems and PlaysThe Collected Poems and Plays
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I love this book. I had it when I was young but lost it with all my belongings during the war in...
Machiavelli: MandragolaMachiavelli: Mandragola
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The Collected Plays of W.B. YeatsThe Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the UniverseThe Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
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Jane Wagner's masterpiece--The first play in more than 20 years to become a national ...
Motives of Woe: Shakespeare and "Female Complaint", A Critical AnthologyMotives of Woe: Shakespeare and "Female Complaint", A Critical Anthology
Best Price: $140.00
This anthology recovers a tradition of writing to which some of the greatest medieval and...

Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 ApparatusShakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus
Best Price: $125.00
This study challenges traditional treatments of Shakespeare through a study of their textual...
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume 1, Poems and Poems in ProseThe Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume 1, Poems and Poems in Prose
Best Price: $208.05
This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works...
The Works of George Farquhar: Volume IIThe Works of George Farquhar: Volume II
Best Price: $273.00
George Farquhar (1678-1707) was perhaps the best, and certainly the most popular, playwright to...
The Tragic PlaneThe Tragic Plane
What constitutes tragedy? This study examines some of the world's greatest tragic dramas...
Macbeth (Oxford English Texts)Macbeth (Oxford English Texts)
Best Price: $62.95
"Macbeth", probably written in 1606, was not printed until the First Folio in 1623,...

Hamlet (Oxford Shakespeare)Hamlet (Oxford Shakespeare)
Best Price: $146.82
This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely...
Henry IV, Part I (Oxford Shakespeare) (Pt.1)Henry IV, Part I (Oxford Shakespeare) (Pt.1)
Best Price: $43.45
During Shakespeare's lifetime, I Henry IV was his most popular play, and today, as in the...
The Homeric Hymn to DemeterThe Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Best Price: $106.66
Agamemnon: 3 volumesAgamemnon: 3 volumes
My friend Vikki from M.A. wrote and told me how much she liked this. When I was in school this...
Plays: v. 1 (Oxford Paperbacks)Plays: v. 1 (Oxford Paperbacks)
This is Volume I of the complete plays of Aristophanes translated by the British poet and...

'Master Harold'... and the Boys (Oxford Paperbacks)'Master Harold'... and the Boys (Oxford Paperbacks)
Drama / 3m (1 white, 2 black) / Int. The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny...
Timon of Athens (Oxford World's Classics)Timon of Athens (Oxford World's Classics)
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Like "Coriolanus," "Timon of Athens" is one of Shakespeare's most...
The Malcontent and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)The Malcontent and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
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Marston is among the first rank of English Renaissance dramatists, right up there with Marlowe,...
Heracles and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)Heracles and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
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Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and...
The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
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This Oxford World's Classic volume brings together three extant tragedies by Euripides...

Play of Daniel: A Thirteenth-Century Musical DramaPlay of Daniel: A Thirteenth-Century Musical Drama
If you're a student of early music, there are various books you shouldn't be without....
James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided ManJames Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided ManSailing into the Unknown: Yeats, Pound, and EliotSailing into the Unknown: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot
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A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare (Odeon)A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare (Odeon)
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Girar is a quite heterodox critic, and his trademark, mimetic desire (that is the fact that we...
Professor BernhardiProfessor Bernhardi
Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler is the story of a Jewish physician, the Professor for...

Fishers of Men: Jesus' Early Ministry in Galilee in Words and MusicFishers of Men: Jesus' Early Ministry in Galilee in Words and MusicThe Portable Bernard Shaw (Viking Portable Library)The Portable Bernard Shaw (Viking Portable Library)
Best Price: $56.00
A compendium of short works by George Bernard Shaw
Death and the MaidenDeath and the Maiden
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Directly based on experiences related to Pinochet's Chilean regime and its extended...
Mr. Peters' Connections (Penguin Plays)Mr. Peters' Connections (Penguin Plays)Collected Plays, Vol. 1Collected Plays, Vol. 1
Best Price: $11.41
Mahesh Dattani is the first Indian playwright writing in English to be awarded the Sahitya...

Mrs. Tiggy-winkle and Friends: Children's Plays from Beatrix Potter (Puffin Story Books)Mrs. Tiggy-winkle and Friends: Children's Plays from Beatrix Potter (Puffin Story Books)
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Six enchanting plays based on some of Beatrix Potter's best-loved tales.
Volpone and Other Early Plays (Renaissance Dramatists)Volpone and Other Early Plays (Renaissance Dramatists)
I came upon this play and Ben Jonson by the back door. I was watching a movie titled "The...
Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
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Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully...
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and...
 
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