Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Aimé Césaire (Author), Richard Miller (Translator)"The weapon of poetry may be Césaire's greatest gift to a modern world still searching for freedom. As one of the last truly great 'universalists' of the twentieth century, he has had a hand in shaping or critiquing many of the major ideologies and movements of the modern world--Marxism, nationalism, Pan-Africanism and fascism, among others. All of these ideas are rooted in notions of progress, all are products ...

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Report copyright infringementby Martyna Majok (Author)"Immensely haunting... The first of many great things about Martyna Majok's Cost of Living... is the way it slams the door on uplifting stereotypes... Ms. Majok has engineered her plot to lead naturally to moments of intense and complicated pungency... If you don't find yourself in someone in Cost of Living, you're not looking." --Jesse Green, New York Times Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Cost of Living deftly challenges the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Euripides (Author), Anne Carson (Translator), Anne Carson (Introduction by)Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so." His pla...

Between Riverside and Crazy (TCG Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Adly Guirgis (Author)"Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us."--The New YorkerWritten with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him.City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord...

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

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Report copyright infringementby Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"The finest work yet from this gifted writer."--The New York TimesOffered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his retur...

What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Heidi Schreck (Author)"BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR" -- New York Times, New Yorker, TIME, Hollywood Reporter, Newsweek, BuzzFeed, Forbes, New York Magazine, NPR, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune Finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama When she was fifteen years old, Heidi Schreck started traveling the country, taking part in constitutional debates to earn money for her college tuition. Decades later, in What the Constitu...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Julie Miller (Author)KatherineHow do you go on when all of your wants and dreams have been destroyed? My loved ones were snatched right out of my hands, leaving me alone in a world of unknowns and terror. I'm lost in the in-between with no familiar paths to follow until the sound of a heartbeat and a whisper draws me back to the land of the living.RaZThe moment I laid eyes upon her face I knew there would be no distance I wouldn't travel to make her my...

Senior Readers' Theater: Humorous Skits for Senior Readers' Theater

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Mosby (Author)Looking for an enjoyable, easy way to involve your adult community or social group in theater? These delightful original skits written by Jean Mosby are situation comedies from everyday life as well as a few familiar stories with a rib-tickling surprise. Easy to stage and oodles of fun for both actors and audience! The book contains 11 humorous skits with 1-5 engaging characters in each, from 2-11 minutes long. Includes skits about a frustra...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Pierre Vernant (Author), Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Author), Janet Lloyd (Translator)Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly nonclassical reading of Greek tragedy that insists on its radical discontinuity with our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and ps...

Shibari Suspensions: A Step by Step Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Gestalta (Author)The art of Japanese-style rope bondage has become increasingly popular in recent years both for its beautiful visual aspect, and for the intimacy it creates between tying partners. This detailed reference book of fundamental suspension techniques will help you understand both the ties and the body that is tied. Its easy-to- use structure encourages you to think creatively and adapt everything to your own needs. It emphasises learning for both r...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Carson (Translator), Aeschylus (Author), Sophocles (Author)Carson's translation combines contemporary language with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up this ancient tale of vengeance to a modern audience and revealing the essential wit and morbidity of the original plays. In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus ― A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Ele...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author)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 issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and autho...

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Report copyright infringementby Clifford Odets (Author)One of the most celebrated and significant plays of the modern American Theatre. The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, that blend into a powerful and stirring mosaic. The opening scene is a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously in the pay of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. This is follow...

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Pinter (Author)Set against the decayed elegance of a house in London's Hampstead Heath, in No Man's Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguity--and the comedy--intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man's land between time present and time remembered, between reali...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertolt Brecht (Author), Desmond Vesey (Translator)A reissue of Bertolt Brecht's classic play, including Brecht's Notes and an introduction by the great actress and chanteuse Lotte Lenya.The Threepenny Opera broke box-office records in its original Berlin run, 1928-1933, and has had many extremely successful runs in the United States ever since.There have been several English adaptations. The present "book" of Desmond Vesey's renders every word of the German, i...

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Guskin (Author), Kevin Kline (Introduction by)"The Great Guskin" (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive Harold Guskin is an "acting doctor" whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens more. In How to Stop Acting, Guskin reveals the insights and techniques that have worked wonders for beginners as well as stars. Instead of yet ano...

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by Lynn Nottage (Author)Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports."--Linda Winer, Newsday"An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world's brutalities. Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic and daring storyteller who tells a story an audie...

M. Butterfly: With an Afterword by the Playwright

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Report copyright infringementby David Henry Hwang (Author)Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen "A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."--Frank Rich, New York TimesBased on a true story that stunned the world, and inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, M. Butterfly was ...

Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/Twelfth Night/The Tempest

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)Four of the Bard's most famous comedies--including The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. "Comedies," as one of William Shakespeare's contemporaries wrote, "begin in trouble and end in peace." This is certainly true of the four masterworks selected for this collection, each of which represents a significant stage in the Bard's development as a writer. Reading these plays, we sample the who...

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (Author)The full text of Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy of manners, including exclusive commentary, selections from Wilde's correspondence, and excerpts from the original four-act version.The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde'slegendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays his decency andwarmth. This edition contains substantial excerpts from the original four-actversion which was never produced, as well as ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Baldwin (Author)From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century--a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons."[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." --Langston HughesIn his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwa...

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Report copyright infringementby Euripides (Author), Robert Bagg (Author)In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hippolytos, however--informed by the playwright's moral and religious fascination--we find a Phaidra resisting the goddess of love with all her strength, though in the end unsuccessfully. Phaidra becomes a tragic foil for Hippolytos, making his superhuman...

A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People

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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Ibsen (Author), Deborah Dawkin (Translator), Erik Skuggevik (Translator)Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is "first and foremost a human being," rather than a wife, mother or fragile doll, Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when she appeared in Henrik Ibsen's greatest and most famous play, A Doll's House. Ibsen's follow-up, Ghosts, was no less r...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Miller (Author), Christopher Bigsby (Introduction by)A Penguin Classic Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back to business, making himself very wealthy in the ensuing years. In Miller's work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve's d...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Russ McDonald (Editor), Russ McDonald (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is edited with an introduction by Russ McDonald and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Greenblatt (Author)Examining the psyche--and psychoses--of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare's work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the s...

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Report copyright infringementby Dominique Morisseau (Author)"Pipeline confirms Dominique Morisseau's reputation as a playwright of piercing eloquence." --Ben Brantley, New York Times With profound compassion and lyricism, Morisseau brings us a powerful play that delves into the urgent issue of the "school-to-prison" pipeline that ensnares people of color. Issues of class, race, parenting, and education in America are brought to the frontlines, as we are left to question the systematic structu...

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Report copyright infringementby August Wilson (Author), Samuel G. Freedman (Foreword by)A powerful, stunning dramatic work that won Wilson critical acclaim and the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and Black was to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But now, the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s This spirit is changing...

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Report copyright infringementby Lorraine Hansberry (Author), Robert Nemiroff (Introduction by)"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the ...

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Report copyright infringementby George Bernard Shaw (Author), Nicholas Grene (Introduction by), Dan H. Laurence (Editor)Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin ClassicShaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle--"an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers"--for Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair. Fr...

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Report copyright infringementby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Walter Kaufmann (Translator), Walter Kaufmann (Introduction by)A poetic exploration of good and evil from the towering figure of world literature in the best translation available. This edition of Faust provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm of the play as well as the complex depth of Goethe's brilliant language in this...

Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Edmond Rostand (Author), Christopher Fry (Author), Nicholas Cronk (Introduction by)Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late...