Drama

13935 books

$66.58

Report copyright infringementby Sophocles (Author), Anne Carson (Translator), Michael Shaw (Introduction by)Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Al...

$17.95

Report copyright infringementby Augusto Boal (Author), Charles A. McBride (Translator)"Boal and his work are marvelous examples of the post-modern situation-its problems and its opportunities. Twice exiled, Boal is 'at home' now wherever he finds himself to be. He makes a skeptical, comic, inquisitive and finally optimistic theatre involving spectators and performers in the search for community and integrity. This is a good book to be used even more than to be read." - Richard Schechner "Augu...

King Lear: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English

$7.99

Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Aut...

$22.99

Report copyright infringementby Peter Collier (Author), David Horowitz (Author)The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both family members and hundreds of people close to the Kennedys. An immediate classic, The Kennedys combines intimate knowled...

Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English

$7.99

Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear Shakespeare guide contains: The complete text of the original play Aline-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpf...

$22.95

Report copyright infringementby Annie Baker (Author)The debut collection of a celebrated new American playwright. "Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today...There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation." --Charles Isherwood, New York Times "Baker has a soft spot for the abandoned, the discarded, the hard luck case...Her heartbreaking works of st...

$12.95

Report copyright infringementby Anne Carson (Author)Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the author, "Dear Antigone." Number of Pages: 51 Dimensions: 0.2 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN Publication Date: May ...

$17.95

Report copyright infringementby Brian Yorkey (Author), Tom Kitt (Author)Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next to Normal. It's the best musical of the season by a mile...an emotional powerhouse with a fire in its soul and a wicked wit that burns just as fiercely."--Rolling Stone"No show on Broadway right now makes as a direct grab for the heart--or wrings it as thoroughly--as Next to Normal does. . . . [It] focuses squarely on the pain that ...

$16.95

Report copyright infringementby Eboni Booth (Author)Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Primary Trust is an arresting character study of an isolated man finding the courage to expand his world and begin again. Thirty-eight-year-old Kenneth lives a comfortable life of routine in suburban New York: after days spent working at a used bookstore, he whiles away his evenings knocking back mai tais with his best friend Burt at the local tiki bar. But when the long-time bookstore owner decid...

$14.95

Report copyright infringementby Noël Coward (Author), Russell Jackson (Introduction by)"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood ReporterAt the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs - his line of harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he ...

$15.95

Report copyright infringementby Mark Ravenhill (Author)Shopping and F***ing is...Falling in love with your best friend - if you can get the right mix of Es and whizz...Passion buried beneath layers of bubble and wrap and cellophaneA world where microwaves are the only source of heatA place where Shopping is sexy and F***ing is a job...And if you killed someone what would it feel like? Or maybe there are no feelings left...Shopping and F***ing is a witty and shocking look at a corrosive dispos...

$15.95

Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Harvey (Author)Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.27 x 7.81 x 4.99 IN Publication Date: October 09, 2008

$8.59

Report copyright infringementby Joseph Pearce (Author), William Shakespeare (Author)Edited by Joseph Pearce Contributors to this volume: James Bemis Paul A. Cantor Robert Carballo, Ph.D. Scott Crider Joseph Pearce Jack Trotter R.V. Young One of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, King Lear is also one of the most thought-provoking. The play turns on the practical ramifications of the words of Christ that we should render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's...

$15.95

Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Editor), John Willett (Translator)Brecht's most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf dialogues are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre. Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argue with the Brechtian Philosopher who wants to exploit their talent for his own purposes. The result is a lively debate about the place of art in society....

$15.95

Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks to the rascally judge, Azdak, one of Brecht's most vivid creations, this story has a happy ou...

$15.95

Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that enables her to set up her own business. But her goodness brings ruin and she must disguise he...

$15.99

Report copyright infringementby Euripides (Author), Alan Shapiro (Editor), Peter Burian (Editor)Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks cle...

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Play in Four Acts

$21.58

Report copyright infringementby Laurel A. Rockefeller (Author)Aliénor was the most sought after bride in all of Christendom - and not simply because she was beautiful. The eldest daughter of Duke William X of Aquitaine, she inherited his vast duchy at the age of just 15 and was crowned queen of the Franks that same year. But love was not to be for the beautiful duchess, despite two marriages and giving birth to a total of ten children. Troubadours sang her praises and composed the first roman...

The Audition Bible: Secrets Every Actor Needs to Know

$22.00

Report copyright infringementby Holly Powell (Author)Conquering the audition process and mastering the tools needed to book the part is a mandatory skill each actor must perfect to survive as a professional. Acting classes don't always prepare the actor for the sabotaging effects of auditioning. Because of the COVID -19 pandemic, auditioning pivoted from actors being in a room filled with casting directors, producers and directors, to self-taping in their own homes surrounded by ring lights, ...

$6.99

Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Shakespeare's King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himsel...

$6.99

Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties. Among them: What is the Ghost--Hamlet's father demanding justice, a tempting demon, an angelic mes...

Introduction to Theatre Arts 1, Student Workbook

$26.95

Report copyright infringementby Suzi Zimmerman (Author)The SECOND EDITION of everyone's favorite theatre arts curriculum book, Introduction to Theatre Arts, Volume 1, is now available! This new edition is gender neutral, better organized, updated to reflect modern technology and social media, and has a 2020 copyright date! Best of all, this Student Workbook is just that... a true individual workbook for each student, loose-leaf three-hole punched and ready to drop into a binder. We've retai...

$17.53

Report copyright infringementby Betty Viamontes (Author)De la galardonada autora de Esperando en la calle Zapote llega una poderosa novela sobre exilio, identidad y las decisiones que pueden cambiar una vida para siempre. La danza de la rosa es una historia profundamente conmovedora sobre el exilio, la familia y el complejo vínculo entre una madre y su hija.Tras doce años de separación, Laura finalmente se reúne con su esposo, Río, en Estados Unidos. Él había huido de Cuba prometiendo que pro...

Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare's First Folio

$32.20

Report copyright infringementby Thomas Hubeart (Author)Shakespeare's First Folio has become one of the most famous books of all time but does not stand alone; it followed Ben Jonson's trailblazing publication of his own Workes a few years earlier and was closely emulated in 1647 by the so-called Beaumont and Fletcher folio. In Four Hundred Years, the story of all three folios is told, including the curious afterlife of Shakespeare's-with its many reproductions, studies of its printing and cop...

$9.38

Report copyright infringementby Susan Glaspell (Author)From the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright comes a play of passion for freedom of thought and expression in American society. Written shortly after World War I and in a time of the Alien and Sedition acts, IHERITORS is a daring play questioning social justice in American democracy. The play was a departure from any of Glaspell's former work and was considered radical for its time with its defense of free speech. Still as poignant today as...

$20.68

Moliere's The School for Wives, A New Version in English

$20.25

Report copyright infringementby Frederique Michel (Author), Charles Duncombe (Author)In this new translation of Moliere's comic masterpiece, Arnolphe, a rich merchant, is under the delusion that he can create a perfect marriage by creating the perfect wife. He raises a young orphan, Agnes, in a convent, determined to keep her ignorant of everything except what he intends to teach her himself. His plans, however, are quickly undone by the handsome young Horace who, despite everything Arnolphe ...

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: Romeo and Juliet

$12.08

Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. R...

King Richard the Second In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)

$16.18

Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Bookcaps (As Told by)Shakespeare knew like few others how to dramatize the gossipy lives of kings. More importantly, he knew that just because it was history, that didn't mean it was boring. Today, however, Shakespeare's histories can be a bit of a drudge to plow through. Let BookCaps help with this modern translation of the classic history play. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you ou...

Racketty Packetty House: The Broadway Play of 1912: A Children's Play in Three Acts

$12.08

Report copyright infringementby Frances Hodgson Burnett (Author)From the writer of classic The Secret Garden comes this highly entertaining and unique play. Based on her best selling novel, Frances Hodson Burnett's adaptation of her story was "a distinct accomplishment" when it opened as the first play of the new Children's Theatre on top of Broadway's Century Theatre. At the time her characters from the story were as much a part of the general imagination as were those of the Brothers Grimm....

$37.37

Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Library 1stworld Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor)ANTONIO. In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me That I have much ado to know myself. SALERIO. Your mind is tossing on the ocean; There where your argosies, with portly sail- Like signiors and...

$13.50

Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is generally considered the greatest dramatist of all time, the greatest English writer, and one of the greatest writers in any language. Shakespeare is best known for his plays, many written for his own acting troupe, which are still regularly staged today. King Lear was written around 1605 and is one of Shakespeare's "Big Four" tragedies (the others bein...