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Shakespeare Well-Versed: A Rhyming Guide to All His Plays by James Muirden Publisher Comments "Shakespeare Well Versed" will enchant readers with clever, rhyming synopses of all of the bard's plays. James Muirden skillfully employs varied rhyme schemes to bring to life the high points and high jinks of these classic works.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $2.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, by Moliere by Moliere Publisher Comments Two classic plays translated by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet into English verse. In The Misanthrope, society itself is indicted and the impurity of its critics motives is exposed. In Tartuffe, the bigoted and prudish Orgon falls completely under the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Flowering Spirit: Classic Teachings on the Art of No by Zeami Publisher Comments The Flowering Spirit is a new translation of Fushikaden, the 15thcentury classic text by Zeami, founder of the No theater. Written sometime between 1400 and 1418, Fushikaden became a secret, sought-after guide to life for Zeamis acting troupe. Not until... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Arthur Miller a Life by Martin Gottfried Publisher Comments Arthur Miller has been delivering powerful drama to the stage for decades with such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. But, remarkably, no one has yet told the full story of Miller's own extraordinary life-a... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard by Ben Crystal Publisher Comments Actor and author Ben Crystal brings the bright words and colorful characters of the worlds greatest hack writer brilliantly to life, handing over the key to William Shakespeares plays, unlocking the so-called difficult bits and, astonishingly, finding... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare's Genealogies: Plots and Illustrated Family Trees for All 42 Works by Vanessa James Publisher Comments A must-have for any serious student of Shakespeare, this full-color, illustrated, 17-foot long, fold-out volume traces the genealogies of the more than 1,000 characters mentioned in all 39 of the Bards plays.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments FOLGER Shakespeare Library: the worlds 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... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 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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Boy Gets Girl: A Play by Rebecca Gilman Publisher Comments What is a stalker? And what kind of life can a woman lead when she knows she is being followed, obsessively and perhaps dangerously, by one? This is the dilemma facing Theresa Bedell, a reporter in New York, in Rebecca Gilman's tensely fascinating new... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Coriolanus (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments A military hero of ancient Rome who attempts to shift from his career as a general to become a candidate for public office a disastrous move that leads to his heading an attack on Rome. The last of Shakespeare's tragedies, Coriolanus is... (read more) Your price: $1.05 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma/Marx in Soho/Daughter of Venus by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments World-renowned historian Howard Zinn has turned to drama to explore the legacy of Karl Marx and Emma Goldman and to delve into the intricacies of political and social conscience perhaps more deeply than traditional history permits. Three Plays brings... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley Publisher Comments "A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubtholds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Three Sisters (Stage Editions) by Anton Chekhov Publisher Comments Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange Publisher Comments From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Russian and Soviet Theatre: Tradition and the Avant-Garde by Konstanti Rudnitsky Synopsis An account of the extraordinary developments of the Russian theatre from the first decade of the 20th century up to 1932. These fruitful years saw an aesthetic revolution during which directors, designers, playwrights and artists responded to Lenin's... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Notebooks by Tennessee Williams Publisher Comments Meticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder Publisher Comments < blockquote> < p> Three of the greatest plays in American literature collected in one volume < /p> < /blockquote> < p> This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating foreword by playwright John Guare and an... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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