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Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer Publisher Comments Raised together in a small German circus town, Modoc, the elephant, and Bram, his faithful boyhood companion and later trainer, formed a bond that lasted their entire lives. It was an extraordinary friendship that was tested time and again until, in the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about [Shakespeare] than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse by Denis Johnson Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stage Makeup: The Actor's Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials by Laura Thudium Publisher Comments This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers. Laura Thudium's new book Stage Makeup is a step by step guide to researching, designing and applying... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most profound tragic allegory. Described by Coleridge as "the stillborn twin of King Lear," the play has... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Salvage: Part III by Tom Stoppard Publisher Comments "Salvage" is the third part of "The Coast of Utopia, " Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Publisher Comments Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worms-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeares play. In... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Terry Pratchetts Nation the Play Uk by Terry Pratchett Publisher Comments Alone on a desert island -- everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm -- Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's completely alone -- or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wit by Margaret Edson Publisher Comments Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award Margaret Edsons powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize-winning... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Who's Who in Shakespeare's England by Alan Warwick Palmer Publisher Comments This major new reference book presents more than 700 biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries and richly illustrates the variety and complexity of the life of the period he lived. With its useful glossary of unusual terms, and extensive cross... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate by Peter Brook Publisher Comments First published in 1968, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre, from perhaps the most influential director of the twentieth century. In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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King Lear by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments FOLGER Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies 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... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Equus by Peter Shaffer Publisher Comments An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tartuffe, by Moliere by Moliere Publisher Comments The translation into English verse of one of Molières most masterful and most popular plays. “A continuous delight from beginning to end” (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richard Wilbur.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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On Directing by Harold Clurman Publisher Comments "A straightforward, tasteful, and articulate account of what it is to bring a play to palpitating life upon a stage" (The New York Times Book Review). In this classic guide to directing, we are taken logically from the choice of the play right through... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Broadway Musical Mvps: 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons by Peter Filichia Publisher Comments Every year, Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League name a Most Valuable Player - an MVP. The Broadway musical community doesn't. Oh, there are the Tony Awards, the Drama... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. I #1: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams Publisher Comments This book brings together in a matching format the plays of one of America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Five Plays by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Publisher Comments Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) overturned the dramatic conventions of his day and laid the groundwork for contemporary approaches to directing and acting. Now, for the first time, the full lyricism, humor, and pathos of his greatest plays are... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Brian Friel: Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney (Contemporary Classics) by Brian Friel Publisher Comments Plays Two: Dancing at Lughnasa Fathers and Sons Making History Wonderful Tennessee Molly Sweeney Introduced by Christopher Murray, this second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. From the troubled... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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