The Hostage: A Play (Evergreen Original, E-151)
Grove Press, January 1958. Trade Paperback. More
Drama
Duchess of Malfi: Fifth Edition (Revised)
Methuen Publishing, April 2014. Trade Paperback. A major revision of this classic revenge tragedy. The comprehensive introduction covers recent developments in criticism and key theatre productions, as well as relating the play to other early modern tragedies. The edition gives students and teachers a reliable, annotated text and a stimulating..... More
Epicoene or the Silent Woman
A&C Black, December 2002. Trade Paperback. 'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed comedy..... More
Changeling
A&C Black, October 2006. Trade Paperback. "The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded" With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the family servant who has crossed her once too often. The Changeling..... More
English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality
Cambridge University Press, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness..... More
The Crucible
Penguin Classics, March 2003. Trade Paperback. A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction..... More
Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
University Of Chicago Press, May 1969. Trade Paperback. "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket." Robert Brustein, "The New Republic" "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody." Kenneth Rexroth, "The Nation" "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their..... More
Death of a Salesman
Viking press, 1961. Trade Paperback. C32 Compass Books. More
Plays of Anton Chekhov
Harper, April 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. These critically hailed translations of "The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters" and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor. Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately..... More
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, June 2008. Trade Paperback. Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s..... More
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 1993. Trade Paperback. 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds' - Virginia Woolf in "A Room of One's Own." More
Death and the King's Horseman: A Play
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon..... More
Aristophanes: Four Comedies
Mariner Books, October 1962. Trade Paperback. 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. More
Long Day's Journey into Night
Yale University Press, March 2002. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama "The definitive edition."--Boston Globe Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and..... More
Sixteen Famous British Plays
Modern Library, 1942. Hardcover. More
Plays of Oscar Wilde
Random House Inc, April 1988. Trade Paperback. This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature. Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again..... More
Death of A Salesman
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1976. Trade Paperback. 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 reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he..... More
Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack,or The Submission;The Chairs, (Evergreen Book -- 101)
Grove/Everygreen, December 1958. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. 13th printing. Mild marginal darkening of covers and interior pages. Previous dealer's sticker residue affixed to front cover panel recto & verso. Vertical creasing of rear cover. [160 pages]. More
The Gardener's Son
Ecco, September 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. In the Spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with the idea of writing a screenplay. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before..... More
Stanislavski in Practice: Exercises for Students
Routledge, October 2010. Oversize Softcover. Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski's System. Author Nick O'Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike. This is an exercise book for students and a lesson planner for teachers on syllabi from Edexcel, WJEC and AQA..... More
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Grove Press, August 1997. Trade Paperback. A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around..... More
A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People
Modern Library, circa 1923. Reprint. Flexible Boards. 12mo. {4 & 1/8' x 6 & 1/2'} Black limp leatherette with gold lettering & rules on spine and gold ML torchbearer colophon. Bernhard design end papers front & rear. Previous owner's name, college, fraternity & city written in ink on ffep. Covers..... More
Shakespearean Imagination a Critical Introduction -- MB-114
Indiana University Press / Midland Books, 1975. Paper Back. More
Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra (V-165)
Vintage/Random House, November 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Saint Joan
Penguin, 1952. Mass Market PaperBack. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Pages free of markings; A great reading copy. More
