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1	Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare add to wishlist The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
2	Yankee Fantasies: Five One-Act Plays by Percy Mackaye add to wishlist see all copies from $7.50!
3	An Enemy of the People by Henrik Johan Ibsen add to wishlist This is a fresh and contemporary translation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" by Nicholas Rudall. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
4	The Figaro plays by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, John Wells add to wishlist A wildly funny and modern translation by one of Britain's top humorists which loses none of Beaumarchais' satirical edge. Figaro, Beaumarchais' most famous character, was a key-factor in inciting the French people to revolt against their lazy aristocracy and the extravagant and selfish French monarchy. In The Barber of Seville (1775) he is a ... see all copies from $1.99!
5	Three Screenplays by Mr. E L Doctorow, Paul Levine (Editor) add to wishlist E.L. Doctorow is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late 19th century to the 21st. ... see all copies from $3.55! first editions
6	On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement by Bettina Friedl (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
7	Great Scenes for Young Actors by Craig Slaight, Jack Sharrar add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
8	Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw add to wishlist "What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead." Cheered by some and booed by others on opening night in 1894, Arms and the Man became the first success of Bernard Shaw's dramatic career that spanned six decades and brought him world-wide renown. In this perennially popular anti-romantic comedy, a fugitive enemy soldier ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
9	I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay by Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov add to wishlist Until the recent announcement of the Will Smith/Alex Proyas collaboration scheduled for release in 2004, numerous attempts had been made to adapt Isaac Asimov's classic story-cycle, I, ROBOT, to the motion picture medium. All efforts failed. In 1977, producers approached multiple award winning Harlan Ellison to take a crack at this 'impossible' ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
10	Four Major Plays: Volume I: A Doll House/The Wild Duck/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder by Henrik Johan Ibsen add to wishlist Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen's works, these four plays--A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder--brilliantly embody his landmark contributions to the theater. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each work deals convincingly with the human emotions of greed, fear, and sexual hostility, and confronts ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Noh Drama and the Tale of Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays by Janet Goff add to wishlist see all copies from $23.55!
12 view cover	Plays of gods and men by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, Baron add to wishlist Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was a prolific writer, penning short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and publishing over sixty books, not including individual plays. The ... see all copies from $11.88!
13	Dramatic micellanies: consisting of critical observations on several plays of Shakspeare: with a review of his principal characters, and those of various eminent writers, as represented by Mr. Garrick and other celebrated comedians. With anecdotes of... by Thomas Davies add to wishlist see all copies from $8.05!
14 view cover	Simon Plays by David Rosenthal add to wishlist Simon Martin is coming up fast on his fiftieth birthdayand he's a mess!He has a job he could care less about, he's in therapy, his last true love was twenty years ago, and he has a nagging addiction to alcohol and crack cocaine. David Rosenthal, the commercial actor, drama coach, and voice-over talent, now portrays this likeable, yet damaged, ... see all copies from $5.00!
15 view cover	The Plays, Histories and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs V2 by Aphra Behn add to wishlist see all copies from $29.55!
16	Bell's British Theatre: Selected Plays, 1791-1802, 1797: Forty-Nine Plays Unrepresented in Editions of 1776-1781 and 1784 by John Bell add to wishlist see all copies from $7.95!
17 view cover	How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell add to wishlist Fried worms, boiled worms, worm sandwiches, worms with peanut butter; however he eats them, Billy must eat 15 worms in 15 days. But Alan and Joe are out to stop him - by fair means or foul! see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18 view cover	My Movie Business: A Memoir by John Irving add to wishlist John Irving's memoir describes the author's involvement (and lack thereof) in five of the films that have (and have not) been made from his nine novels. It focuses primarily on the 13 years Irving spent writing and rewriting his screenplay of "The Cider House Rules", for four different directors. A Miramax production, the film was finally shot in ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes add to wishlist Extravagant power of invention and remarkable comic vitality make Aristophanes one of the most brilliant of the ancient Greek playwrights. From the hilariously bawdy yet fundamentally serious play Lysistrata, to the creative fantasy of the Birds, to his comic masterpiece the Frogs, Aristophanes displays the biting satire, exquisite lyricism, and ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	Sexual Politics and the Male Playwright: The Portrayal of Women in Ten Contemporary Plays by Geetha Ramanathan add to wishlist Traditional studies of theater have long neglected an overall study of female roles as written by male playwrights. Are the roles blatantly sexist or do they adhere to the cultural norms that even progressive male playwrights cannot ignore? From Georg Buchners Woyzeck to David Hares Plenty, the ten plays studied here have traditionally been seen ... see all copies from $2.45! first editions
21 view cover	Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt add to wishlist IRISH PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS - 1913 - PREFACE - THERE are SO many who have helped mewith this book that I cannot begin to thank them one by one. If I name any, however, there are four I would name together. There is my old friend, long since dead, Lawrence Kelly, of County Wexford, who first told me Irish folk-stories, adding to the wonderment of ... see all copies from $15.59! first editions
22	Ppl Who Led My Plays by Adrienne Kennedy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Toby Plays with Shapes by Quadrillion Media add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00!
24 view cover	The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde add to wishlist Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A ... see all copies from $4.95! first editions
25 view cover	The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles, E F Watling (Translator) add to wishlist The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle against fate. "King Oedipus" tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he doesn't realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment on himself. It is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions