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Pygmalion
by Bernard Shaw  Publisher Comments Shaw's expos of the British class system--featuring the enduring characters of Professor Henry Higgins and the "gutter-snipe" Eliza Doolittle he vows to turn into a lady--remains his most popular play. Includes Shaw's Preface and "sequel."...
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments Based on historical people and real events, Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism....
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Rock N' Roll : a New Play (07 Edition)
by Tom Stoppard Publisher Comments "Rock 'n' Roll" is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan...
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett 
Publisher Comments A seminal work of twentieth century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater...
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry Publisher Comments 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...
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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...
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The Glass Menagerie (New Directions Book)
by Tennessee Williams Publisher Comments Dramatic script relating the interactions of Amanda, her son, and her daughter, Laura and the very important gentleman caller....
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The Piano Lesson (Plume Drama)
by August Wilson Publisher Comments Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama...
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics)
by Sophocles And Fagles Publisher Comments Three Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus....
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My Name Is Rachel Corrie: Taken from the Writings of Rachel Corrie
by Rachel Corrie Publisher Comments "I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. I don't know if many of the children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their walls. You just can't imagine it unless you...
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August: Osage County
by Tracy Letts
Publisher Comments andldquo;Augustis the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.andrdquo;andmdash;The New York Times andldquo;A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people.andrdquo...
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Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn Publisher Comments 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...
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Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Powells.com Staff Pick 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...
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Kicking a Dead Horse (Vintage)
by Sam Shepard Publisher Comments A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his Great Sojourn, things are...
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Plays)
by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments A drama based on the witch trials in Salem Village....
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Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment....
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Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins
by Nick Flynn Publisher Comments In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the...
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Faust #1: Faust: Part 1
by Johann Wolfg Goethe Synopsis A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of "Faust" is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil....
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Wit
by Margaret Edson Publisher Comments In this extraordinary play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. At the start of "Wit," Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching...
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The Plays of Anton Chekhov
by Anton Chekhov Publisher Comments These critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor. Without compromising the spirit of the text,...
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