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With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a ... More

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As the might of the Imperial Japanese Army is crumbling, so too are the tenuous ties with human society held by a sensitive soldier of World War II.

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'Heinemann Plays' offers contemporary drama and new editions of classic plays. The series has been developed to support classroom teaching and to ... More

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From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion ... More

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From the bestselling author of "The All of It" comes a glorious, captivating novel about love, fidelity, and honor as seen through the lens of a ... More

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The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two ... More

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The titles in the boxed set are Angels in America: Millenium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika.

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The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners.

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This compact volume includes SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, THE ROSE TATTOO, and THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA.

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Set in St Louis during the depression, the glass menagerie is one of Tennessee Williams' most powerful and moving plays. Abandoned by her husband ... More

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Twilight is Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses the verbatim words of people who experienced the Los ... More

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As far back as she can remember, Codi Noline had felt an outsider in her hometown of Grace, Arizona. Her dispassionate father - 'an obelisk of ... More

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Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this deeply moving drama of life in a small New Hampshire village won the Pulitzer prize in ... More

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Dr. Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother, the mayor, ... More

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Set in Memphis, Tennessee, before Jazz. Lucas is a blues-playing pianist and Melvira is the conjurewoman that he loves. This tale follows the ... More

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Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite ... More

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth, about ... More

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Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949, the ... More

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In the spring of 1948, Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He ... More

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-- Dramatists, production dates of significant plays, and intellectual, cultural and historical events of the period -- Original, accessible analyses ... More

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The tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of ... More

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The Tragedie of Julius Caesar dates from around 1599, and was first published by Heminge and Condell as the sixth play in the Tragedies section of ... More

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Griffin and Thorsten (both English, City U. of New York) assess the work and thought of American playwright Hellman (1906-84). They point out the ... More

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It's a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it's the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered ... More

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After refusing to pay taxes to the American government, which was engaged in what he saw as an unjust war, Henry David Thoreau is thrown in prison.

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