Shakespeare Plays

The Tragedy of Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare

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Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines... (read more)
 
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American Anthology

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Plays)
by Arthur Miller

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A drama based on the witch trials in Salem Village.... (read more)
 
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Women/Ethnic

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard

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Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In... (read more)
 
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Directing and Production

Art of Dramatic Writing Rev Edition
by Lajos Egri

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General

Euripides: Ten Plays
by Paul (trn) Roche

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A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The... (read more)
 
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Shakespeare Criticism

Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (04 Edition)
by Stephen Greenblatt

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So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration.--Dan Cryer, Newsday Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did (John... (read more)
 
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Production General

Respect for Acting
by Uta Hagen

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Respect for Acting This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she taught],... (read more)
 
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Acting

Acting Professionally (6TH 04 Edition)
by Robert Cohen

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This is a complete guide to the business of beginning an acting career in theatre, film, or television, on both coasts and in the heartland. The book offers counsel to acting majors on actor training approaches, career positioning, finding an agent... (read more)
 
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Plays

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays (95 Edition)
by Luigi Pirandello

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New translation of Pirandello's most famous play, along with >Henry IV< and >It Is If You Think It Is So<.... (read more)
 
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  1. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
  2. Romeo and Juliet (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
  3. King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
  4. Romeo y Julieta (Clasicos de La Literatura) by William Shakespeare
  5. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
  7. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
  8. Macbeth (Sparknotes No Fear Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
  9. Art of Dramatic Writing Rev Edition by Lajos Egri
  10. Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard

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King Lear King Lear
by Shakespeare

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King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear' s failure as a father engulfs himself and his world... (read more)
 
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Copenhagen Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn

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The Tony Award--winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen" "is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner... (read more)
 
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History and Criticism

Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
by John Willett

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This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation... (read more)
 
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Vaudeville and Burlesque

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese
by Dita Von Teese

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On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of submission. Burlesque and the Art of the Teese "I advocate... (read more)
 
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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
by Pauline Kiernan

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Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, a hilarious and insightful look into the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeare's body of work London's Elizabethan theaters were located in the seedy part of town, close to whorehouses but never... (read more)
 
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DVDs

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Widescreen)

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Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush join Academy Award nominee Clive Owen in a gripping historical thriller full of suspense, intrigue and adventure! When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and... (read more)
 
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Musical Theater

Mamma MIA! How Can I Resist You?: The Inside Story of Mamma MIA! and the Songs of Abba
by Judy Craymer

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The story of a double phenomenon: the group who reinvented the world's perception of pop music in the 1970s, and the show based around their hits which became an entertainment industry legend in its own right, opening in 85 cities and seen by over 20... (read more)
 
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Costume and Makeup

A History of Costume
by Carl Kohler

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Egypt, Babylon, Greece up through 19th-century Europe; based on surviving pieces, art work, much more. Includes many clear, measured patterns for reproducing historic costumes. Full text. 595 illustrations.... (read more)
 
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