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by Oscar Wilde (Author)A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premi red on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 29, 2015

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was probably performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King's Men. 1] 2] Its first known appearance in print was in the First Folio of 1623. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 29, 2015

The Epic of Gilgamesh: An Old Babylonian Version - Paperback

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by Albert T. Clay (Author), Morris Jastrow (Author)Illustrated VersionThe Epic of GilgameshAn Old Babylonian VersionBy Morris Jastrow and Albert T. ClayThe Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC), it is often regarded as the first great work of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk. These independent stories were later used ...

Color Me Broadway: All ages coloring book - Paperback

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by Brian P. Kelly (Author)A wonderful coloring book for all ages featuring scenes from classic Broadway Musicals. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: January 14, 2016

The Life and Death of King John - Paperback

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by The Perfect Library (Editor), William Shakespeare (Author)"The Life and Death of King John" from William Shakespeare. English poet and playwright considered to be one of the greatest writers in the English language, as well as one of the greatest in Western literature (1564-1616). Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 30, 2015

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Macbeth cuenta una historia de crimen y castigo entreverada de brujer a y elementos sobrenaturales. Amparado en enga osas profec as, Macbeth decide asesinar a su rey y tomar la corona. Consciente del horror al que se entrega, forja su terrible destino y se deja poseer por el mal que nace del ansia de poder, crey ndose invencible y eterno.Author BiographyWilliam Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo...

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by Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris (Editor), Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris (Illustrator), William Shakespeare (Author)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. Rome...

The Tale of Two Cities: The 1860 Theatrical Adaptation - Paperback

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by Charles Dickens (Author), Fox Cooper (Author)With a running time of 3 hours and over 40 actors, Fox Cooper Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 26, 2015 Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: Tale of Two Cities Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8 Reading Level: 4.6 Point Value: 2

Sueño de una noche de verano - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Esta genial y m gica comedia en cinco actos escrita en verso y prosa relata la historia de cinco parejas de enamorados que sufren y disfrutan por causa de su amor y de las argucias de sus enamorados.Author BiographyWilliam Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon (o simplemente El Bardo), Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la li...

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People - Paperback

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by Oscar Wilde (Author)The Importance of Being Earnest, century old play first performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious person in order to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary r...

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by Abigail Johnson (Author)THE SECOND LAW weaves back and forth through time and space, following the story of Elle, an undergrad with a passion for high-level physics research. As she navigates a sudden loss, she finds herself broken, but not alone. Guided by the voices of Sigmund Freud and Henry David Thoreau, Elle comes to learn about the explicit simplicity and the implicit complexity of life and death. All proceeds from the sale of this play will be donated to the Brain and Behavior Rese...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Shakespeare's tragedy with First Folio text - Paperback

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by Cby Publishing (Illustrator), Cby Publishing (Editor), William Shakespeare (Author)At CBy, we're avid readers ourselves- so our ethos is to make good, honestly advertised books that we'd buy and read ourselves- not just to maximise our profits. That's why we have a 4 point checklist of guaranteed quality- and if you think this book doesn't meet one of them, or you're dissatisfied for any other reason, we'll give a refund via Amazon, no questions asked. We guarantee that this book: Comes ...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)In the kingdom of Illyria, a nobleman named Orsino lies around listening to music, pining away for the love of Lady Olivia. He cannot have her because she is in mourning for her dead brother and refuses to entertain any proposals of marriage. Meanwhile, off the coast, a storm has caused a terrible shipwreck. A young, aristocratic-born woman named Viola is swept onto the Illyrian shore. Finding herself alone in a strange land, she assumes that her twin brother, S...

A Story and a Play: Two Short Dramas for the Stage - Paperback

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by Erik Anderson (Author)"No Taliban Here " A short story written for the staged performance. Set in the northern slopes of the Hindu Kush Mountains (in Central Afghanistan), it tells the drama of a restaurant & inn owner, and his young daughter, as they are caught between the vice-grips of the Taliban and the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF). 3M / 1W] "The Sack" An absurdist fan-rave for the ever-popular Tom and Jerry cartoons. 3M / 2W] Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0....

Ben Franklin: An Ingenious Life - Paperback

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by Ray Flynt (Author)Ben Franklin: An Ingenious Life is a one-man show based on the life of Benjamin Franklin. The show envisions the audience visiting with Franklin in his Philadelphia home in the last years of his life as he recounts his remarkable journey. Franklin is recognized not only as one of America's Founding Fathers, but for his significant contributions to science, discovery, and civic achievements. Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 18, 2016

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by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (Translator), Sophocles (Author)Sophocles is one of three ancient & medieval Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first classical & medieval drama & plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or relatively close to those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote 120 classical & medieval plays during the course of his lifetime, but only seven have survived in a complete form. Three of those seven surviving drama & plays are...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)In Messina, as Don Pedro, the Prince of Arragon, and his officers return from a recently concluded war, a message comes to Leonato that the prince intends to visit his house for a month. The Duke's party arrives with Count Claudio, who had before the war been attracted by Leonato's only daughter, Hero. Another of the visitors is Benedick, a bachelor, who enjoys speaking his mind in witty argument with Hero's cousin and companion, the Lady Beatrice. Leonato holds...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), David Swain (Editor), Joseph Black (Editor)This volume includes the text of Twelfth Night as prepared and annotated by David Swain for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, and is accompanied by the excellent introduction and supplementary materials from the anthology. The diverse and extensive appendices acquaint readers with Shakespeare's sources and contextualize the play within Elizabethan society. The appendices include an excerpt from Barnabe Ri...

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) - Paperback

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by Karel Capek (Author), David Wyllie (Translator)"R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Czech: "Rossumovi univerz ln roboti") is a science fiction play originally written in the Czech language. It premiered in 1921 and is noted for introducing the term "robot" to the English language. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called "robots." Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken ...

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by Lynn Nottage (Author)"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity of desire--with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion." --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrightIntimate Apparel: "Thoughtful, affecting new play . . . with seamless elegance."--Charles Isherwood, VarietyFabulation: "Robustly entertaining comedy . . . with punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of ...

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by August Wilson (Author)"No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."--John Lahr, The New Yorker"A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written."--Ben Brantley, The New York Times"Wilson's juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound...

Shipwrecked!: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) - Paperback

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by Donald Margulies (Author)Hush now For I am about to tell you a story.A fantastic and amazing story A story all the more remarkable because every word of it is true. That's right. Every word.How do I know?Because I lived it, dear ones... Thus begins Shipwrecked An Entertainment--The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself). Based on a Victorian hoaxer's tale of being a castaway in the South Pacific--complete with buried treasure, a giant killer octopus, and cannibals-...

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by Nicky Silver (Author)Comedy nirvana . . . satisfyingly mean and funny.?The New York PostNicky Silver, that strange progeny of a coupling between Neil Simon and Edward Albee (The New York Times), has cornered the market on deliciously savage family comedies. This intimate and frightening examination of how we cope with loneliness and disappointment delighted audiences on Broadway, earning a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Play.Nicky Silver's plays include Pterodactyls (Oppenheim...

Between Riverside and Crazy (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by 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 wants him out, the liquor stor...

Evening at the Talk House (Tcg Edition) - Paperback

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by Wallace Shawn (Author)Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at seventy-two, still comes across as precocious--probably because we resent him flagging our complacent complicity in all the world's ills.--VarietyThe play stops, but has no ending. It is for us to try to answer its bleak questions, to see what it might mean to be undeluded.--The GuardianG...

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by Paula Vogel (Author)"Revelatory...As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel's play thrums with music, desire, and fear, and it's shrewd about the ways in which America isn't free, and about how art does and doesn't transcend the perilous winds of history." --New Yorker "Superbly realized...Indecent, the powerful play by Paula Vogel, sheds an eye-opening light on a little-known time when theatrical history, Jewish culture, and the frank depiction of homosexuality intersected, w...

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by Jackie Sibblies Drury (Author)Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Dazzling and ruthless...One of the most exquisitely and systematically arranged ambushes of an unsuspecting audience in years...A glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake." --Ben Brantley, New York Times Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed from the start: the silverware is all wrong, the ca...

Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians - Paperback

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by W. F. Wigston (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 312 Dimensions: 0.66 x 10.56 x 7.7...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)"Republished by arrangement with toExcel Press"--T.p. verso. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 01, 1999

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by Joseph Pearce (Author), William Shakespeare (Author)Contributors to this Volume: James Bemis Crystal Downing Richard Harp Andrew J. Harvey Jill Kriegel Jonathan Marks Rebecca Munro Joseph Pearce Stephen Zelnick"Star-crossed" Romeo and Juliet are Shakespeare's most famous lovers. A staple of high school reading lists, the tragedy especially resonates with young adult readers who, like Romeo and Juliet, have experienced the exhilarating and perilous phenomenon of being "in love". Given the t...

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by S. Marshak (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9.22 x 6.06 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 20, 2000

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by Maxim Gorky (Author) Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.04 x 5.1 IN Publication Date: August 13, 2001