Modern Library, January 1952. Cloth. Light shelf wear with some minor chipping at the ends of the spine. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Ex-libris plate on the front pastedown endpaper. Small stamp on the front free endpaper. More about 18th Century Plays, Cato, Jane Shore, Conscious Lovers, Beggars Opera, Tragedy of Tragedies,...
Theatre Communications Group, May 2009. Paper Back. In celebration of American Theatre's twenty-fifth anniversary, the editors of the nation's leading theater magazine have chosen their best essays and interviews to provide an intimate look at the people, plays, and events that have shaped the American theater over the past quarter-century... More about American Theatre Reader: Essays and Conversations from American Theatre Magazine
University Alabama Press, August 1998. Trade Paperback. Distinguished scholars and artists consider the mingling of Eastern and Western cultures and traditions in theatre. The divergent cultures of East and West had been completely separated from one another for so long that their mutual discovery, beginning a little more than a.... More about Crosscurrents in the Drama: East and West (Theatre Symposium Series
Oxford University Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the genre... More about Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy...
Oxford University Press, USA, March 2000. Trade Paperback. The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the... More about Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy...
Manchester University Press, July 2008. Paper Back. Galatea and Midas are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Shortly after his early success with Capaspe and Sappho and Phao in 1583-84, he took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in... More about Galatea and Midas: John Lyly (Revels Plays
The Franklin Library, January 1978. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Marbled endpapers. Embossed stamp on title page. More about Henrik Ibsen Four Plays
Modern Library, November 1951. Hardcover. More about Six Modern American Plays [The Modern Library, 276.1
University of Michigan Press, December 1997. Trade Paperback. In the Fall of 1992, Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, won England's prestigious Evening Standard award as the season's Best Play. By the Spring of 1993, Millennium had come to Broadway and won its highest honor... More about Tony Kushner in Conversation (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., March 2007. Trade Paperback. More about A Flea in Her Ear: A New Version of Georges Feydeau's Farce
Broadway Play Pub, December 2002. Trade Paperback. More about Buffalo Gal
Penguin Classics, October 1991. Trade Paperback. "A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become 'real' at all" writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and... More about Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth (Penguin Classics
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 about Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies
University of Chicago Press, February 1969. Trade Paperback. More about Aeschylus II: 4 Tragedies- The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, 7 Against Thebes, Prometheus...
Liveright, July 2018. Hardcover. More about The Oresteia
Easton Press, January 1979. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Moire endpapers. Previous owner's book plate adhered to front pastedown. More about The Oresteia (100 Greatest Books Ever Written
Dover Publications, September 1996. Trade Paperback. These plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. In "Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for... More about The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Furies
Penguin Classics, December 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. The only surviving trilogy from ancient times - a story of murder, madness and justice Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts... More about The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics
Penguin, 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. More about Prometheus and Other Plays
Pub Group West, June 1988. Trade Paperback. Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre-- "Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd--all owe a debt to Jarry." (Encore) This volume contains his three classic Ubu texts: Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné. Through..... More about Ubu Plays
Theatre Communications Group, June 1988. Trade Paperback. Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. More about Driving Miss Daisy : A Play
Dramatist's Play Service, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More about Last Night of Ballyhoo
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1996. Trade Paperback. "Nothing Like the Sun" is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing. It is at the same time a serious look... More about Nothing Like the Sun : A Story of Shakespeares Love-Life
Univ of Minnesota Pr, June 1972. Trade Paperback. Presents a new version of the Greek classic drama as adapted for a modern theatrical performance. More about Oedipus the King
Da Capo Press, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature both as a man and a.... More about Samuel Beckett
