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Midsummer Nights Dream
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William Shakespeare
Confusions of the heart reign in Athens, where everyone is pining away for the wrong person except Theseus, the Duke and his fiancée, Hippolyta, whose wedding day is fast approaching. Hermia, the Duke's daughter, is intent on marrying Lysander, although her father disapproves and threatens to make her a nun if she refuses to marry his choice for ...
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The Figaro plays
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Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, John Wells
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Great Scenes for Young Actors
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Craig Slaight, Jack Sharrar
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Pinocchio
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Carlo Collodi
The classic children's story, written by Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini) in 1883. It tells the story of Pinocchio, a puppet come to life, whose various adventures serve to teach him right from wrong.
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I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay
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Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov
This illustrated screenplay was written by critically acclaimed author Harlan Ellison in the late '70s, adapting a section of Isaac Asimov's classic story cycle, I, ROBOT. It is considerably closer in plot and in spirit to the original stories than the 2004 film of the same title, and was written with Asimov's blessing. But this screenplay was ...
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On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement
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Bettina Friedl (Editor)
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Arms and the Man
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George Bernard Shaw
One of Shaw's most popular comedies, deflating romantic misconceptions of love and warfare. Reprinted from an authoritative early edition, complete with Shaw's preface to Volume II of "Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant."
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Plays of gods and men
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Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, Baron
Contains four of Lord Dunsany's fantasy plays: "The Tents of the Arabs," "The Laughter of the Gods," "The Queen's Enemies," and "A Night at an Inn." Part of the Wildside Fantasy Classics series. Introduction by Lin Carter and John Gregory Betancourt.
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Simon Plays
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David Rosenthal
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, ...
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The Plays, Histories and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs V2
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Aphra Behn
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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...
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Thomas Davies
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School for Scandal
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A theater classic, often called the best comedy of manners in English, is a delightful play that brilliantly skewers the affectation and pretentiousness of aristocratic Londoners of the 1770s.
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Short Plays for Young Actors
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Craig Slaight (Editor), Jack Sharrar (Editor)
A collection of fifteen short plays for young adults including works by Thornton Wilder, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and David French.
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Irish Plays and Playwrights
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Cornelius Weygandt
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 ...
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Ppl Who Led My Plays
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Adrienne Kennedy
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Christopher Durang: Complete Full-Length Plays, 1975-1995
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Christopher Durang
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Toby Plays with Shapes
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Quadrillion Media
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Plays on classic themes.
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Franz Grillparzer, Samuel Solomon
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's mad, witty farce that parodies Victorian earnestness is considered by many critics the greatest comedy of modern times. Other works by Wilde included in the same volume are "Lady Windermere's Fan" (created for the actress Lillie Langtry), "A Woman of No Importance", "Salome" (banned from the English stage and produced in Paris by ...
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Out of the Bag: The Paperbag Players Book of Plays
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Judith Martin, Seymour Chwast (Illustrator)
A collection of short plays involving large props such as paper bags and refrigerator boxes.
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Plays
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Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was a bestselling American novelist and a Pulitzer prize winning playwright. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States. She also served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the ...
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Aunt Agatha Plays Tournament Bridge
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Freddie North
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The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays
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Dr. Sue-Ellen Case
Anthology of plays by leading German women writers for the first time in English
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Noh Drama and the Tale of Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays
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Janet Goff
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Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
An English translation of the plays of the famous 19th-century Russian dramatist.
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