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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts more books like this

by Robert Bolt (Preface by)

Robert Bolt's classic play about Thomas More, the Catholic saint beheaded by Henry VIII at the birth of the Church of England, is now in trade paperback for the first time.

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Arcadia

Arcadia more books like this

by Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard's play primarily concerns Thomasina Croom, a brilliant 13-year-old who is searching for the proof to Fermat's theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the rudiments of what we now know as chaos theory. All the while, her mother is pursuing Lord Byron, a guest at their estate, while her tutor is pursuing the wife of another ...

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead. more books like this

by Tom Stoppard

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is the fabulously inventive tale of "Hamlet" as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to ...

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen more books like this

by Michael Frayn

In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men ...

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark more books like this

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, madness, and revenge, first enacted in London in 1602. Young Prince Hamlet, in mourning for his dead father, receives an apparition of his father's ghost telling him that he was murdered by his own brother Claudius, who then assumed the throne and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Intent on revenge, Hamlet ...

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Cloud 9

Cloud 9 more books like this

by Caryl Churchill

"Cloud Nine" is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria and sex.

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Closer

Closer more books like this

by Patrick Marber

'Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in Closer he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williams' Streetcar, Mamet's Oleanna, Albee's Virginia Woolf, Pinter's Old ...

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Master Harold&the Boys

Master Harold&the Boys more books like this

by Athol Fugard

Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays more books like this

by Oscar Wilde

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 ...

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Equus

Equus more books like this

by Peter Shaffer

Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers his own life is paradoxically in the witness box.

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Doctor Faustus more books like this

by Professor Christopher Marlowe

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" Dr. Faustus famously asks of Helen of Troy when he conjures her at the suggestion of his students in this major work, written in 1588. A master scholar, Faust, dissatisfied by the limitations of book learning, seeks higher knowledge through black magic, which leads to a private audience with ...

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The Invention of Love more books like this

by Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard's new play is centered around A.E.Housman, poet and Classics scholar, whose most famous poem was A Shropshire Lad. This new play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 1997, directed by Richard Eyre.

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Sonnets more books like this

by William Shakespeare

This new edition focuses on Shakespeare's Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic, and other groupings. The volume also addresses the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the poems. To what extent are The Sonnets autobiographical? What is the nature of ...

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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays more books like this

by Derek Walcott

On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his ...

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Translations: A Play more books like this

by Brian Friel

August 1833 - the first Royal Ordnance Survey is translating the local Gaelic place names of the townland of Baile Beag in County Donegal into English, with far reaching personal and cultural effects for the small group involved.

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Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays more books like this

by A C Cawley (Editor)

This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes marginal glosses and footnotes to explain difficult words and phraseology. Concentrating mainly on "Corpus Christi" pageants, this is a selection of medieval miracle plays. There is also a translation of the Cornish "Death of ...

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Collected Shorter Plays more books like this

by Samuel Beckett

Contains Beckett's less than full-length works for stage, radio and television, in chronological order of composition.

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Dancing at Lughnasa: A Play more books like this

by Brian Friel

A new play from Brian Friel whose previous works include "Philadelphia, Here I Come". Set over two days in a house just outside the Irish village of Ballybeg, the play tells the story of the five Mundy sisters, their brother Jack who is a priest and the illegitimate son of the younger sister.

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Death and the Kings Horseman more books like this

by Wole Soyinka

In the traditional Nigerian village where this play is set, custom demands that the King's chief horseman accompany his ruler into the afterlife by committing suicide when the King dies. When the King in this play dies, his horseman is relieved when he is barred from his traditional role by the colonial powers that have taken control of his ...

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Home before night more books like this

by Hugh Leonard

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Everyman more books like this

by Professor James Jennings, Simon Trussler (Editor)

The most durable of medieval morality plays, along with 3 other classics: "The Second Shepherd's Play, Noah's Flood" and "Hickscorner." All from standard texts.

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A Doll's House: A New Version by Frank McGuinness more books like this

by Henrik Johan Ibsen, Frank McGuinness

The text of Ibsen's play, written in 1879 and translated into English by the playwright, Frank McGuinness. Nora confronts her husband, Torvald, with her own brutal realization that by marrying she has moved from her father's doll's house into yet another situation of economic dependency.

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The Complete Plays: The Ruffian on the Stair; Entertaining Mr. Sloane; The Good and Faithful Servant; Loot; The Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; What the Butler Saw more books like this

by Joe Orton

This volume contains every play written by Joe Orton, who emerged in the 1960s as the most talented comic playwright in recent English history and was considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward.

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Sophocles: Antigone more books like this

by Sophocles, Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., LLB (Editor)

Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest and most famous of all works of Greek literature, and it is often the play that is read first, whether in Greek or in translation, by those who are beginning to study Greek tragedy. But it is by no means an easy play, and the reader requires careful guidance if he is to appreciate its subtleties and come ...

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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works more books like this

by William Shakespeare

The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief ...

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