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1	The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I more books like this by Sophocles, David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor) add to wishlist Includes "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Glengarry Glen Ross more books like this by David Mamet add to wishlist First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Doll's House more books like this by H Ibsen add to wishlist The slamming of the front door at the end of A Doll's House shatters the romantic masquerade of the Helmers' marriage. In their stultifying and infantilised relationship, Nora and Torvald have deceived themselves and each other both consciously and subconsciously, until Nora acknowledges the need for individual freedom. A revised student edition ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Importance of Being Earnest more books like this by Oscar Wilde add to wishlist 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead. more books like this by Tom Stoppard add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Complete Works of William Shakespeare more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist This single-volume edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare includes commissioned introductions to each of the plays and poems by a team of academics, including John Jowett and Philip Hobsbaum, with a textual introduction by the Shakespearean scholar Alec Yearling explaining the significance of the Alexander edition. This volume also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays more books like this 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 $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Machinal more books like this by Sophie Treadwell add to wishlist see all copies from $5.40! new only from $13.02! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays more books like this by Derek Walcott add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.30! new only from $6.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays more books like this by A C Cawley (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.62! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Under Milk Wood more books like this by Dylan Thomas add to wishlist In 1951, two years before his death, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, 'an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods, so that, at many levels...you come to know the town as an inhabitant of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.10! \| first editions
12 view cover	Everyman more books like this by Professor James Jennings, Simon Trussler (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Mousetrap and Other Plays more books like this by Agatha Christie add to wishlist Brings together some of the Christie classics for stage and screen. "The Mousetrap", record-breaking play in London's West End, "Witness for the Prosecution" and "And Then There Were None" are just a few of the highlights in this collection of eight plays by Agatha Christie. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Oleanna more books like this by David Mamet add to wishlist "An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer the dogmatic, puritannical streak which has become commonplace on and off the campus. With Oleanna he continues an exploration of male-female conflicts begun with Sexual Perversity in Chicago in 1974. Oleanna cogently demonstrates ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $7.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Modern Irish Drama more books like this by John P Harrington (Editor) add to wishlist "Modern Irish Drama" reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights - W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M.Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel. The texts are annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figures and literary allusions. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Homecoming more books like this by Harold Pinter add to wishlist When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Children's hour more books like this by Lillian Hellman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.37! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Journey's end more books like this by R C Sherriff add to wishlist Set in the First World War, "Journey's End" concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed ...Laurence ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $6.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	My Children! My Africa! more books like this by Athol Fugard add to wishlist In a South African country town an inter-school debate is taking place, and its stars are a boy from the black school and a girl from the white school. First performed in Johannesburg in June 1989, this play presents Fugard's bleak view of the present, tempered by a sanguine faith in the future. see all copies from $2.61! new only from $8.24! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Complete Plays more books like this by Sarah Kane, David Creig (Introduction by) add to wishlist When Blasted was first produced at the Royal Court in 1995 it was hailed jointly as a masterpiece and a 'disgusting piece of filth' (Daily Mail). Subsequently that play, and the others that followed, have been produced all over the world. This anthology includes Kane's never-before-published Channel 4 screenplay, Skin."Kane wrote simply and ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $16.09! \| SVS
21 view cover	Man and Superman more books like this by George Bernard Shaw add to wishlist Shaw began writing "Man and Superman" in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors from Conan Doyle to Kipling. In this powerful drama of ideas, Shaw ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Moon for the Misbegotten more books like this by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill add to wishlist Josie, a towering woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation lives in a dilapidated Connecticut farmhouse with her conniving father. Together, they're a formidable force as they scrape together a livelihood. But Josie's softer side is exposed through her love of Jim Tyrone, her father's drinking buddy - a third-rate actor whose dreams of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Under Milk Wood: a play for voices more books like this by Dylan Thomas add to wishlist A 'play for voices', "Under Milk Wood" is a delightful modern pastoral set in an imagined seaside town. The 'dismays and rainbows' of its inhabitants are played out within the cycle of one day. The larger-than-life characters - Captain Cat, Mog Edwards and Miss Price, to name but a handful - are extraordinary creations to be enjoyed in all their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Duchess of Malfi more books like this by John Webster add to wishlist The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences for centuries. This new Arden edition offers readers a comprehensive, illustrated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Collected Plays of Neil Simon more books like this by Neil Simon add to wishlist A collection of the most popular plays of the award-winning Broadway playwright, edited by the playwright himself. This volume includes "Lost in Yonkers", "Rumors", "Jake's Women", "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", and "London Suite". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.04! \| first editions \| SVS

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