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1	Dandelion Wine more books like this by Ray Bradbury add to wishlist Science fiction master Ray Bradbury makes a bit of a departure here with this non-genre novel about one summer in the life of a 12-year-old boy and his brother. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Robe more books like this by Lloyd C Douglas add to wishlist With more than six million copies sold, this Easter classic is the story of the man who gambled for Christ's robe and won. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Piano Lesson more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama that embodies the painful past and expectant future of black Americans. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.91! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	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 $2.49! new only from $12.39! \| first editions \| SVS
6	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 $3.48! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Macbeth Pel more books like this by William Shakespeare, Dr. Stephen Orgel (Editor), A R Braunmuller (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| SVS
8	The Prestige more books like this by Christopher Priest add to wishlist A story spanning three generations of people, bound not only by blood, but by the inheritance of a terrible and deadly secret. The novel explores magic, the phenomenon of twins, the veracity of science, parallel worlds and the very essence of reality itself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Oxford World's Classics more books like this by William Shakespeare, Nicholas Brooke (Editor) add to wishlist Shakespeare's dark portrait of ambition begins when three prophesying witches conspire to meet with Macbeth. Obliging his fate, he indeed encounters these "Weird Sisters," who mysteriously refer to him by the title Thane of Cawdor, and moreover, as the future king. Macbeth's companion Banquo is told that his descendants will inherit the throne. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man-in body. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Portable Arthur Miller more books like this by Arthur Miller, Harold Clurman (Introduction by) add to wishlist A collection of 60 years' worth of writing from one of this century's most influential playwrights. Includes "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman," as well as his most recent play, "Broken Glass," previously unpublished work, and a radio play thought lost for years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.42! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Edward the Second more books like this by Christopher Marlowe add to wishlist The introduction to this edition contains an analysis of the first quarto (including new evidence of its original dating) and a reconsideration of the play's complex relation to the Shakespearean histories that preceded and followed it. Charles R. Forker offers a discussion of Marlowe's use of sources, and presents a new argument for the drama's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The deputy. more books like this by Rolf Hochhuth add to wishlist First staged in 1963, The Deputy stirred up more controversy and caused greater repercussions than any other postwar work when it was first published. Its treatment of Pius XII - the "deputy" of Christ on earth - and the Church during the Nazi persecution of the Jews rendered it the object of impassioned praise and violent denunciation. It is a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	King Richard III more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist Preceded by HENRY VI: Parts I, II, and III, RICHARD III concludes Shakespeare's four-part dramatic series chronicling the end of the Plantagenet family as rulers of England. Upon the defeat of Richard, the hunchbacked Duke of Gloucester, at the battle of Bosworth field in 1485, the Plantagenets are replaced by the Tudors, marking the end of a long ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	King Hedley II more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist The eighth work in playwright August Wilson's ten-play cycle chronicling the history of the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century, "King Hedley II" is set in 1985 and tells the story of an ex-con in post-Reagan Pittsburgh trying to rebuild his life. see all copies from $3.13! new only from $8.25! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485 more books like this by John Julius Norwich add to wishlist This book alternates chapters that summarize Shakespeare's history plays with chapters that condense the history of the years the plays cover, enabling readers to understand how Shakespeare represented, and often repackaged, history. see all copies from $2.54! new only from $8.42! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Complete plays. more books like this by Christopher Marlowe, Irving Ribner add to wishlist Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus' encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in "The Jew of Malta", and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50!
18 view cover	Two Trains Running more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson continues to explore the African-American experience. In Two Trains Running, Wilson evokes the changes wrought by the '60s on the regulars of a dingy Pittsburgh diner--survivors struggling to cope with the world and fighting back when they can. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	King Henry V more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist For this updated edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated war play, Professor Gurr has added a new section to his introduction which considers recent critical and stage interpretations, especially concentrating on the 'secret' versus 'official' readings of the play. He analyses the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Tragedy of Richard the Third: With New and Updated Critical Essays and a Revised Bibliography more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist Featuring a new overview of Shakespeare's works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, this Signet classic also includes a comprehensive stage and screen history, dramatic criticism from the past and present, and sources from which Shakespeare derived this great work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
21 view cover	Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama more books like this by Peter Saccio add to wishlist Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this engaging guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.33! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Three Plays more books like this by Thornton Wilder (Preface by) add to wishlist This omnibus volume brings together the definitive texts of three outstanding plays by one of America's most distinguished writers. Thronton Wilder was equally prolific and successful as a dramatist and novelist. "Our Town" (1938) and "The Skin of Our Teeth" (1942) were each awarded the Pulitzer Prize. "The Matchmaker" (1955) was originally staged ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions
23 view cover	Henry IV, Part 2 more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist While King Henry IV rightly laments that his heir, the young Prince Hal, has not distinguished himself in battle, Hal is up to no good at the Boar's Head Tavern with his rotund cohort, Falstaff. With a rebellion rising against the throne at home, Hal lives it up in the ale houses of London, associating with petty schemers and masterminding ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	1 Henry IV more books like this by William Shakespeare, Gordon McMullan (Editor) add to wishlist The text for this edition is based on the First Quarto (1598), incorporating the act and scene divisions of the First Folio. It includes 19 critical essays and an argument on the naming of a central character (Falstaff or Oldcastle?), and the annotations and bibliography have been updated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Historical Novel more books like this by Georg Lukacs, Gyorgy Lukacs, Hannah Mitchell (Translator) add to wishlist Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems: Stalinist dogmatism about literature ... see all copies from $4.80! new only from $22.55! \| first editions \| SVS

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