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1	Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra more books like this by Sophocles, Edith Hall (Editor), H D F Kitto (Translator) add to wishlist Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.52! \| SVS
2	The God of Carnage: A Play more books like this by Yasmina Reza, Christopher Hampton (Translator) add to wishlist What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? see all copies from $7.89! new only from $7.89! \| SVS
3	Goethe's Faust more books like this by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Walter Kaufmann (Translator) add to wishlist Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, "Faust" has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Medea more books like this by Euripides add to wishlist The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers. These new translations are more than faithful to the original text, going beyond the literal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard more books like this by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (Translator) add to wishlist Five plays by the celebrated 19th-century Russian author. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
6	A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's the Tempest, more books like this by Aime Cesaire, Richard Miller (Translator) add to wishlist A troupe of black actors perform their own "Tempest." Cesaire's rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the African-American experience and African mythology to raise questions about colonialism, racism and their lasting effects. Aime Cesaire, who was born in Martinique in 1913, is one of this century's major ... see all copies from $4.74! new only from $7.92! \| SVS
7	Four Major Plays: Volume I: A Doll House/The Wild Duck/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder more books like this 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! new only from $2.90! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Tartuffe, by Moliere more books like this by Moliere, Richard Wilbur (Translator) add to wishlist Richard Wilbur's verse translation of Tartuffe has been acclaimed as a masterpiece in its own right. Set in rhymed couplets, it captures not only the tone of the original but the dramatic energy as well. Not surprisingly, the play in this translation has been performed regularly over the years. One of Moliere's most popular plays, Tartuffe, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.35! \| SVS
9	Endgame and ACT Without Words more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions
10	Three Tragedies of Lorca more books like this by Federico Garcia Lorca, Richard L O'Connell (Translator), James Graham-Lujan (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.14! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Mother Courage and her children : a chronicle of the Thirty Years War more books like this by Bertolt Brecht add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Visit more books like this by Friedtich Durrenmatt, Patrick Bowles (Translator) add to wishlist Durrenmatt once wrote of himself: "I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness," and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Durrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place "somewhere in Central Europe" and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Bald Soprano and Other Plays more books like this by Eugene Ionesco, Donald M Allen (Translator) add to wishlist The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Galileo more books like this by Bertolt Brecht add to wishlist Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition. Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.81! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Trial of God more books like this by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator) add to wishlist Three actors show up at an inn to perform a Purim play for the Jewish community and discover only three Jews have survived a recent pogrom. Instead, they stage a mock trial of God for allowing such things to happen. see all copies from $3.42! new only from $7.34! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Huis Clos more books like this by Jean-Paul Sartre add to wishlist No exit, unabridged. Edition of Sartre's well known existentialist novel. see all copies from $3.98! new only from $28.08! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	R.U.R. more books like this by Karel Capek add to wishlist R.U.R.-written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922-garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "robot." Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, A Capekas Robots are an android product-they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Art: A Play more books like this by Yasmina Reza, Christopher Hampton (Translator) add to wishlist A philosophical French drama. Marc cannot believe that his friend Serge has bought an expensive modern painting, and they quarrel, while the play's third character, a friend of them both, tries to calm them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Miss Julie more books like this by August Strindberg add to wishlist In this fin de siecle parable of class tension and gender war, a wealthy woman engages a man on her staff in a summer's night of passion, including fights, sex, dreams for a shared future in which their social differences won't matter, and disillusionment when they realize how stuck in their lives they really are. This play was written in 1888. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Caligula & three other plays. more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist 'One word to tell the reader what he will not find in this book. Although I have the most passionate attachment for the theater, I have the misfortune of liking only one kind of play, whether comic or tragic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.39! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	An Enemy of the People more books like this by Henrik 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! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Fuente Ovejuna more books like this by Flix Lope De Vega y Carpio add to wishlist Fuente Ovejuna (c. 1613) is the most famous and frequently performed play by the creator of the Spanish classical theatre, Lope de Vega. Astonishingly for its period, it celebrates the murder in 1476 of a nobleman, the Grand Commander of the Military Order of Calatrava, by the peasants he had oppressed, and their subsequent solidarity under ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $7.80! \| SVS
23 view cover	Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy more books like this by Frank Wedekind, Jonathan Franzen (Translator) add to wishlist Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized by the world around him, and especially by his teachers, shoots himself. The ending seems likely to be the suicide of Moritz's friend, Melchior, but in a confrontation with a mysterious stranger (the ... see all copies from $2.12! new only from $3.97! \| SVS
24 view cover	Mandragola more books like this by Niccolo Machiavelli add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.91! \| first editions
25 view cover	Plays more books like this by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov add to wishlist An English translation of the plays of the famous 19th-century Russian dramatist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions

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