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by William Shakespeare (Author), William Montgomery (Editor), Janis Lull (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by gener...

Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem - Paperback

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by Arthur Miller (Author), Christopher Bigsby (Introduction by)The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream A Penguin Classic Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to rei...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Claire McEachern (Editor), Claire McEachern (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by g...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Frances E. Dolan (Editor), Frances E. Dolan (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by g...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Peter Holland (Editor), Peter Holland (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 Romeo and Juliet is edited with an introduction by Peter Holland and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrator...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), William Montgomery (Editor), Douglas Trevor (Introduction by)Shakespeare's cautionary tale about the dangers of upending democracy, Julius Caesar, which recently ran at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park. Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competitionThis edition of Julius Caesar is edited by William Montgomery with an introduction by Douglas Trevor and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Peter Holland (Editor), Peter Holland (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Or...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Frances E. Dolan (Editor), Frances E. Dolan (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Step...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), A. R. Braunmuller (Introduction by), Stephen Orgel (Editor)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by gen...

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by Wendy Wasserstein (Author)Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-who come together in London to celebrate Sara's birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Photographs.Back JacketThree Jewish middle-aged sisters, originally from Brooklyn, come together in Queen Anne's Gate, London, to celebrate the fifty-fourth birthday of Sara, the eldest, now a brilliant British banker....

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by Wendy Wasserstein (Author)Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyss...

Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition - Paperback

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by Umberto Eco (Author), Alastair McEwen (Translator)How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. Basing his ideas on common sense, Eco shares a vast wealth of literary and historical knowledge, touching on issues that affect us every day. At once philosophical an...

Moliere's Don Juan: Comedy in Five Acts, 1665 - Paperback

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by Molière (Author)Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Moliere's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic. Richard Wilbur's flawle...

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by Aristophanes (Author), Dudley Fitts (Translator)New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index. Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 0.98 x 8.44 x 5.66 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2006

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by Richard Wilbur (Author)Pierre Corneille, in his original dedication for The Theatre of Illusion, described the play as a "strange monster." He first called these five acts a comedy; later, a "caprice" and an "extravagant trifle." Written in 1635 and staged in 1636, the play vanished from the stage for the next three hundred years--to be revived in 1937 by Louis Jouvet and the Com die Fran aise. Since then it has been widely considered, in Virginia Scott's words, "Corneille's baroque master...

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by Richard Wilbur (Author)Richard Wilbur's translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille's most famous play, a tragedy set in Seville that illuminates the dangers of being bound by honor and the limits of romantic love; The Liar is a farce, set in France and dealing with love, misperceptions, and downright falsi...

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by Richard Wilbur (Translator)A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful language of the original. "[This translation] is a striking tour de force" (Hudson Review). Drawings by Igor Tulipanov. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8 x 6.18 IN Publication Date: March 15, 1984

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by T. S. Eliot (Author)"Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest."--Times Literary Supplement"Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention - understatement, upper-class accents and all - and used it as a vehicle for utterly serious ideas." --The Observer"An authentic modern m...

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by T. S. Eliot (Author)A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. "Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise.... He has achieved complete mastery of words" (Kirkus Reviews). "It is a wise, witty, elegant play whose characters speak finely and shrewdly" (Chicago Sunday Tribune). Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.5 x 5.48 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1950

The Family Reunion: Verse Drama - Paperback

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by T. S. Eliot (Author)A modern verse play dealing with the problem of man's guilt and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanity. "What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has here been realized.... This is the finest verse play since the Elizabethans" (New York Times). Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8.62 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 18, 1964

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by Arthur Miller (Author), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Foreword by)Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove Set in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and orphan niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, undocumented...

Four Plays: Flood/Mister, Mister/Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo/The Wicked Cooks - Paperback

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by Günter Grass (Author)Flood; Mister, Mister; Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo; The Wicked Cooks. Short plays belonging to the Theatre of the Absurd. Introduction by Marin Esslin. Translated by Ralph Manheim and A. Leslie Willson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.77 x 8.52 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: March 20, 1968

Freshwater, a Comedy: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition - Paperback

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by Virginia Woolf (Author)Virginia Woolf's only play-a hilarious farce taken from the life of her great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous Victorian photographer. It was first performed at Vanessa Bell's London studio in 1935 as one of Bloomsbury's theatrical evenings and later, in New York, in a star-studded French production. Edited and with a Preface by Lucio P. Ruotolo; drawings by Edward Gorey. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.37 x 7.97 x 5.34 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date:...

Of Mice and Men and the Moon Is Down: Two Plays - Paperback

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by John Steinbeck (Author), James Earl Jones (Foreword by)Two devastating short novels adapted for the stage by Steinbeck himselfA Penguin Classic This Penguin Classics edition celebrates Steinbeck's dramatic adaptations of his most powerful short novels, Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down, featuring a foreword by award-winning actor James Earl Jones. Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form - as Steinbeck put it, "a kind of playable novel, written in novel form but so scened and...

Man from the USSR & Other Plays: And Other Plays - Paperback

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by Vladimir Nabokov (Author), Dmitri Nabokov (Introduction by), Dmitri Nabokov (Translator)These four plays and the two essays on drama that accompany them were written in Russian during Nabokov's emigre years in Germany and France, before his published work in English earned him his reputation as a supreme magician of language. As his son, Dmitri, reveals in the introduction, many of the Nabokovian themes that were to dazzle future generations of readers made their first appearance in these ...

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by Howard Fast (Author)A play that satirizes the political confusions of both youthful activists and middle-aged believers in gradual reform. Translated by A. Leslie Willson and Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.53 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: December 19, 1972

The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising: A German Tragedy - Paperback

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by Günter Grass (Author)A full-length play dealing with the German intellectuals' abandonment of the East German workers during their rebellion in 1953. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.39 x 8.56 x 5.62 IN Publication Date: November 23, 1966

The School for Wives and the Learned Ladies, by Molière: Two Comedies in an Acclaimed Translation. - Paperback

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by Richard Wilbur (Author)The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. "Wilbur...makes Moli re into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one" (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur. Number of Pages: 324 Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.2 x 7.9 IN P...

School for Husbands and Sganarelle, or the Imaginary Cuckold, by Moliere - Paperback

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by Molière (Author), Richard Wilbur (Translator)Two plays in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears: in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Introductions by Richard Wilbur. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.43 x 7.97 x 5.34 IN Publication Date: March 31, 1994

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by Edna O'Brien (Author)An evocative play about Virginia Woolf's life and relationships with her husband, Leonard, and her lover, Vita Sackville-West. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.31 x 7.96 x 5.33 IN Publication Date: June 26, 1985

Decadence: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by David Weir (Author)The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siècle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth century imitated, emulated, parodied, and otherwise manipulated for aesthetic gain. What begins as the moral condemnation of modernity in mid-nineteenth century France on the part of decade...

More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition - Hardcover

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by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (Author), Martha Bower (Editor)Arguing that the 1964 edition of Eugene O'Neill's unfinished play More Stately Mansions, prepared after the playwright's death, was missing a substantial amount of material that O'Neill intended for inclusion, Martha Bower here presents an entirely new edition of the play with this material--dialogue, character description, an entire scene, the epilogue, and large parts of other scenes--restored. Published to coincide with the centenn...