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The Iceman Cometh
by Eugene O'NeillEugene O'Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a seedy, skid row saloon in 1912, peopled by society's failures: drifters, whores, pimps, and informers.
Inherit the Wind
by Jerome Lawrence Robert E. LeePlay about a school teacher who has been jailed for teaching the theory of evolution to his children as the law is against teaching anything other than the Bible.
Man of La Mancha: A Musical Play
by Dale WassermanThis is a powerful story of a man, disillusioned with everyday life, who decides to become a Knight Errant and go out forth into the world righting all wrongs.
Two Plays: House Arrest and Piano
by Anna Deavere SmithHouse Arrest describes the relations between a series of American presidents and their observers in and out of the press. Piano casts a gaze a century behind as she follows the tangled line of exploitation in Cuba at Spanish-American War.
Macbeth
by William ShakespeareNo dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king–and thus, seals his own doom. Fast-moving and bloody, this drama has the extraordinary energy that derives from a brilliant plot replete with treachery and murder, and from Shakespeare’s compelling portrait of the ultimate battle between a mind and its own guilt. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
Henry V
by William ShakespeareThe book includes an assessment of the Quarto and texts, and a critical discussion of the play's historical and literary sources and an inspection of conflicting critical attitudes to the play.
The Essential Plays
by Anton ChekhovChekhov's four essential masterpieces for the theater: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard have been staged throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Much Ado About Nothing
by William ShakespeareThis is a story of a lady wrongly accused of treachery, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally justified and reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceits threaten to darken the humor and sparkling word play.
Fires in the Mirror
by Anna Deavere SmithDerived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires in The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on current Black-White tensions as it is a work of drama.
Comedies
by William ShakespeareShakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His early comedies, with their baroque poetic exuberance, intense theatricality, explosive bursts of humor, and superbly concrete realizations of the dialects of love, capture as in a chrysalis all that he was to become. They provide a complete inventory of the mind of our greatest writer in the middle of his golden youth. This volume contains The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and its companion piece, Romeo and Juliet, which Tony Tanner describes in his introduction as "a tragedy by less than one minute." The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's oeuvre.
Henry VI: Parts One, Two and Three
by William ShakespeareThese are Shakespeare's first three history plays, covering some sixty years of English history. In the final play, a distinctively evil voice is heard--that of Richard III, destined to become England's most fearsome and hated ruler of all time.
Theatre Shoes
by Noel StreatfeildWhen their father is captured during the war, three children come to London to live with their grandmother and join their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.
Me and Shakespeare: Adventures with the Bard
by Herman GollobIn this unique memoir, a legendary editor tells how, on the verge of retirement, he developed a passion for the works of Shakespeare and gained new perspectives on his own life.
Othello
by William Shakespeare David Bevington David Scott Kastan James Hammersmith Robert Kean Turner Joseph PappSome of the most affecting moments in drama have been associated with Othello, as have been some of the worst (or, perhaps just funniest) blunders imaginable.
The Shakespeare Stealer
by Gary L. BlackwoodWidge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama.
A Time to Dance: Virginia's Civil War Diary, Book Three (My America Series)
by Mary Pope Osborne Will OsborneVirginia Dickens continues to chronicle the aftermath of the Civil War, as she and her family move their lives from Washington, D.C. to New York City. Throughout the times of difficulty and joy, Ginny is always courageous and sweet.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare David Bevington David Scott Kastan James Hammersmith Robert Kean Turner Joseph PappMagic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare's most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for the forthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, unintentionally add to the hilarity. The result is a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce, all touched by Shakespeare's inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between art and life, dreams and the waking world. Each Edition Includes: * Comprehensive explanatory notes * Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship * Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English * Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories * An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
Romances
by William ShakespeareFour plays by Shakespeare in one book--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.
Who's Orp's Girlfriend?
by Suzy KlineOrp's life becomes very complicated when he realizes that he likes two girls at the same time.
Shakespeare for Beginners
by Brandon ToropovWilliam Shakespeare stands as the greatest writer the English language has ever produced. Even so, many people have never read him. Covering all of Shakespeare's plays, this volume offers clear, concise descriptions and plot summaries of each work; it lists key phrases and important themes, explains the main ideas behind each play and features excerpts of important passages.
The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy
by Julian HallThe British Cult Comedy is the guide to live and television comedy in Britain from the 1980s to the present day. From Ben Elton to Alan Carr, this book profiles fifty of the influential cult comedy icons and discovers how they became household names.
And Maggie Makes Three
by Joan Lowery NixonMaggie, living with her grandmother in Houston, joins the drama club at school, wins a part in a play, begins to make friends, and learns to deal with feelings of loneliness, being in love, and having an unusual family life and background.
Six Great Modern Plays
by Anton ChekhovA collection of modern--yet timeless--plays: "The Glass Menagerie," by Tennessee Williams; "All My Sons," by Arthur Miller; "Three Sisters," by Anton Chekhov; "The Master Builder," by Henrik Ibsen; "Mrs. Warren's Profession," by George Bernard Shaw; and "Red Roses for Me," by Sean O'Casey.
Backstage with a Ghost
by Joan Lowery NixonBrian and Sean investigate a series of suspicious accidents at a theater waiting to be torn down.
Isabel: Taking Wing (Girls Of Many Lands)
by Annie DaltonIn 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.