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The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Oscar Wilde
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Dover thrift edition. Great value.... (read more)

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The Book of Mormon: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
The Book of Mormon: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
by Trey Parker
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The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of South Park and the co-creator of Avenue Q. Features the complete script and song lyrics, with 4-color spot illustrations throughout, an original introduction... (read more)

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Arcadia (93 Edition)
Arcadia (93 Edition)
by Tom Stoppard
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Now this is important theatre. Yes, a play, and I recommend seeing it performed if you ever get the chance to, but read it beforehand if you want to have a chance of understanding it. I actually played Valentine in a production of Arcadia (I had a... (read more)

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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
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Miller's rich perspective on Williams's singular style of poetic dialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this a unique and valuable new edition of "A Streetcar Named Desire."... (read more)

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
by Bertolt Brecht
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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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Copenhagen (98 Edition)
Copenhagen (98 Edition)
by Michael Frayn
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The Tony Awardwinning 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 Heisenberg... (read more)

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Clybourne Park: A Play
Clybourne Park: A Play
by Bruce Norris
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Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing a plot line from Lorraine Hansberrys A... (read more)

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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics)
The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics)
by Sophocles
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Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, these three plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles' translation conveys all of Sophocles' lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge, the... (read more)

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Endgame
Endgame
by Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and... (read more)

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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new... (read more)

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Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker
Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker
by Thornton Wilder
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< 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)

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
by Oscar Wilde
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A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde's theatrical genius at its brilliant best. Subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People", this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world... (read more)

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
by Steve Martin
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Steve Martin is one of America's treasured comedic actors, having appeared in some of the most popular movies of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has for the past few years turned his attention to writing plays. The results... (read more)

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Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1964-1982
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1964-1982
by Arthur Miller
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This second volume of Arthur Miller's collected plays opens with After the Fall (1964), his much-anticipated return to the theater after an eight-year hiatus. A tour-de-force exploration of guilt, responsibility, and history, the play opened a window on... (read more)

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika)
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika)
by Tony Kushner
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HBO Films will present Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols from Tony Kushner’s own adaptation of his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. The remarkable cast features Al Pacino, Meryl... (read more)

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Proof: A Play
Proof: A Play
by David Auburn
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One of the most acclaimed plays of the 1999-2000 season, Proof is a work that explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of science. It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a... (read more)

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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
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From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Théâtre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment by American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a... (read more)

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Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma/Marx in Soho/Daughter of Venus
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma/Marx in Soho/Daughter of Venus
by Howard Zinn
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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)

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Three Tall Women (Plume Drama)
Three Tall Women (Plume Drama)
by Edward Albee
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Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, Edward Albee has, in Three Tall Women, created a masterwork of modern theater. As an imperious, acerbic old woman lies dying, she is tended by two other women and visited by a young man. Albee's... (read more)

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