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by John Mortimer (Author), N. F. Simpson (Author), Harold Pinter (Author)Eight short plays: Triangle, Gladly Otherwise, The Black and White, Trouble in the Works, Cleaning Up Justice, Collector's Piece, Conference and Can You Hear Me? Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2022

Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse - Paperback

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by Denis Johnson (Author)Two plays--hilarious and searing in equal measure--by one of our most essential and original authors In his poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson has explored the story of America--especially of the West, land of self-made men and self-perpetuating myths--with searing honesty and genuine sympathy. These two plays, written in verse at once hypnotic and clear, confirm his position as one of our great verbal stylis...

Walker and Ghost Dance: Plays - Paperback

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by Derek Walcott (Author)Two dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Walker and Ghost Dance. On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion--Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and In...

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone - Paperback

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by Seamus Heaney (Translator), Sophocles (Author)In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch. Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's sec...

Obedience, Struggle and Revolt - Paperback

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by David Hare (Author)Please reject absolutely the crazy . . . suggestion that playwrights don't have intentions . . . They do. In this intimate collection of writings by the author of Stuff Happens and Plenty, David Hare reveals a perspective as meticulously constructed as one of his dramas. In selections ranging from his beginnings as a politically charged upstart in the seventies through to his current position as one of the world's most respected playwrights, Hare skillfully expands upon ...

The Love-Girl and the Innocent: A Play - Paperback

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by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (Author), Nicholas Bethell (Translator), David Burg (Translator)The action of this full-length play is set in 1945 in a Stalinist slave-labor camp similar to the one where the author himself served an eight-year term. It is basically a love story of two prisoners: Nemov, the "innocent," a new prisoner who is unwilling to compromise in order to survive, and Lyuba, a girl who tells him that in the labor camp integrity is a passport to death. He tries desperate...

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Derek Walcott (Author)On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffi...

The Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta: A Play - Paperback

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by Pablo Neruda (Author) Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.47 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2004

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by Roland Barthes (Author) Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 26, 2017

Marbles: A Play in Three Acts - Paperback

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by Joseph Brodsky (Author), Alan Myers (Translator)A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after our era--Joseph Brodsky's only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautolo...

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by Derek Walcott (Author)In Moon-Child, the poet and playwright Derek Walcott returns to the island of St. Lucia for a lush and vivid tale of spirituality and the supernatural. In this lyrical new work, the crafty Planter (who may or may not be the Devil in disguise) schemes to take over the island for development. Between him and his goal lies the Bouton family, whose ailing matriarch strikes a bargain: if any of her three sons can get the Devil to feel anger and human weakness, the islander...

Balm in Gilead and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Lanford Wilson (Author)Lanford Wilson is the rare dramatist, witty and humorous, who sees all his characters from the inside...Balm is life itself trapped in a play.--New York Balm in Gilead and Other Plays features Lanford Wilson's first full-length play. It takes place in upper Manhattan at a greasy, slum diner, Frank's cafe, where drug addicts, sex works, and petty criminals come to escape their boredom and suffering.Author BiographyLanford Wilson (1937-2011) was born in Lebanon, Missou...

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by Charles Fuller (Author)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982 A black sergeant cries out in the night, They still hate you, then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washington--tracks the investigation of this murder. But A Soldier's Play is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive e...

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by Lanford Wilson (Author)In Lanford Wilson's masterful play Fifth of July, part of the Talley Trilogy, a group of friends who came of age in the sixties have a reunion in an old Missouri farmhouse, where their reminiscences reveal shattered hopes, buried resentments, lost dreams, and the unhealed trauma of the Vietnam War. "The characters are mostly flamboyant, their dialogue crackles with laugh-inducing lines and we find ourselves dazzled by Wilson's virtuoso writing." - Hollywood Reporter...

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by C. K. Williams (Author), Martha Nussbaum (Introduction by)Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams presents this fluent and accessible version of the Athenian playwright Euripides's great tragedy. Based on the Greek myth of the god Dionysus's punishment of King Pentheus and his mother Agave, Williams' The Bacchae of Euripides is a unique interpretation of one of the most celebrated plays in the history of dramatic theater. With an Introduction by Martha Nussbaum, award-winning author of T...

Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, the Ermine, the Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette - Paperback

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by Jean Anouilh (Author)The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays--the finest English-language anthology of his works--crackles with both his sharp wit and his icy cynicism. In Antigone, his preeminent play and exemplar of his themes and style, he creates a disturbing world in which fate may be no more than a game of role-playing. Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette are the...

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes - Paperback

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by Seamus Heaney (Author)The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because of a wounded foot, Philoctetes nevertheless possesses an invincible bow without which the Greeks cannot win the Trojan War. They are forced to return to Lemnos and seek...

Three Plays: Blood Wedding; Yerma; The House of Bernarda Alba - Paperback

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by Federico García Lorca (Author), Michael Dewell (Translator), Carmen Zapata (Translator)Newly repackaged, three plays by Federico Garc a Lorca In these three plays, Federico Garc a Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry--or poetic drama--depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been ab...

Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes - Paperback

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by Susan Sontag (Author)Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women; and about the triumphs and limitations of the imagination.Back JacketAlice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy based on the life of Alice James (1848-92), the brilliant sister of William and Henry James. The waters of depression cl...

The Odyssey: A Stage Version - Paperback

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by Derek Walcott (Author), Homer (Author), Walcott Derek (Author)With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's play The Odyssey, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros. [The Odyssey features Walcott's] voluptuous metaphor making and severe truth telling.--Time Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca are pungently in...

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by Sarah Ruhl (Author)In this moving exploration of parenthood, an American mother and a Tibetan father have a three-year-old son believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. When a Tibetan lama and a monk come to their home unexpectedly, asking to take their child away for a life of spiritual training in India, the parents must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength, their marriage, and their hearts. The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey filled with music, d...

The Duke of Palermo and Other Plays: And Other Plays, with an Open Letter to Mike Nichols - Paperback

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by Edmund Wilson (Author)The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an integral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction. Also included in this collection of plays is An Open Letter to Mike Nichols, which first appeared in the New York Review of Books. Author BiographyEdmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a li...

Five Plays: Cyprian's Prayer, the Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, the Little Blue Light - Paperback

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by Edmund Wilson (Author)From the author of To the Finland Station and The Triple Thinkers comes a collection of five extraordinary plays. Collected together in one volume, these selected plays by Edmund Wilson includes such works as Cyprian's Prayer, The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, and The Little Blue Light.Author BiographyEdmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a...

The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes - Paperback

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by Ted Hughes (Author)In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's Phedre, Euripedes' Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia, a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry. The Oresteia--Agamemnon, Choephori, and the Eumenides--tell the story of the house of Atreus: After King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes,...

The Old Glory: Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; And Benito Cereno - Paperback

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by Robert Lowell (Author), Jonathan Miller (Illustrator), Robert Brustein (Introduction by)Winner of Five Obies, now back in print after fifteen years, a stage adaptation of classic stories by Hawthorne and MelvilleIn the three plays in The Old Glory--Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno--the most powerful figure in postwar American poetry confronts the most haunting American fiction writers of the nineteenth century. The result is a mythical, nightmare hi...

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by Euripedes (Author), Ted Hughes (Translator)In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was called one of the great works of our century (Michael Hofmann, The Times, London), his Oresteia of Aeschylus is considered the difinitive version, and his Ph drewas acclaimed on stage in New York as well as London. Hughes's version of Euripides's Alcestis, the last of his translations, has the...

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by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Peter Sis (Illustrator)Goethe's classic, enlivened by Randall Jarrell's fine translation and Peter Sís's dark, dreamy illustrations Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook--"Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest")--and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of hi...

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by Edith Hamilton (Translator)Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.Back JacketThis book presents three of the greatest Greek tragedies translated by Edith Hamilton. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.75 x 7.82 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: November 17, 1958

Amphitryon & Two Other Plays - Paperback

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by Titus Maccius Plautus (Author), Lionel Casson (Editor)This anthology includes his best plays and also seeks to give some idea of his range. His forte was farce, and these selections exemplify at least two of his favorite farcical devices: mistaken identity (Amphitryon) and the lecherous old codger (Casina). The Pot of Gold reveals what Plautus could do with the subtler humor to be evoked from character. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 27, 2011

Menaechmus Twins and Two Other Plays - Paperback

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by Titus Maccius Plautus (Author), Lionel Casson (Translator)Considered to be Plautus's greatest play, Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers is the story of two twin brothers, Menaechmus and Sosicles, who are separated at age seven when their father takes Menaechmus on a business trip.Back JacketSometime around 250 B.C., in the tiny mountain village of Sarsina high in the Apennines of Umbria, ancient Rome's best-known playwright was born. Plautus wrote upwards of fifty plays of which twenty have s...

Nineteenth-Century Russian Plays - Paperback

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by F. D. Reeve (Editor), F. D. Reeve (Translator), F. D. Reeve (Introduction by)This anthology offers the reader six important Russian plays of the nineteenth century, in readable modern translations. The editor has provided an introduction surveying the development of drama and the theater in Russia and discussing the significance of the plays, and he has included a note on each play commenting on its literary and historical context.Back JacketThis collection ranges from humorous social real...

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by Ernest Jones (Author)A classic study in the psychoanalysis of literature, Hamlet and Oedipus investigates Hamlet's mind as it relates to the general psychological conditions foreshadowed in the Oedipus legend. Dr. Jones gives a comprehensive view of the Hamlet literature and shows how the explanation of Hamlet's mysterious inhibitions lies in his unconscious conflicts. The Hamlet theme is itself an old one, and there is a full discussion of the place of the saga in the complex mythological...