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Macbeth - Folger Edition (92 Edition) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments 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) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book) by Hilary Mantel Staff Pick Would the sequel live up to expectations? Actually, yes. Hilary Mantel's talent for rich detail and sensuous atmosphere is still apparent, and Bring Up the Bodies is, in some ways, a much more gripping, riveting, and textured read than Wolf Hall. For one... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Cutting for Stone (Vintage) by Abraham Verghese Staff Pick I'm used to reading good authors, but Verghese is so good, he blew me away. He writes with such detached compassion that Ethiopia becomes your homeland, and Matron, Ghosh, Marion and Shiva Stone, and all the rest become your friends, your neighbors, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cure At Troy : a Version of Sophocles Philoctetes (91 Edition) by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments Arthur Millers Pulitzer Prizewinning play that forever changed the meaning of the American Dream Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Playing Shakespeare : an Actor's Guide (84 Edition) by John Barton Publisher Comments Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the worlds greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors-among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions) by Anton Pavlo Chekhov Publisher Comments Classic of world drama concerns the passing of the old semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. The work also showcases the great Russian writer's rich sensitivities as an... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments Shakespeare's tragedy about Othello the Moor is presented in this freshly edited text with full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, an Introduction to reading Shakespeare's language, and much more. Reissue.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Oresteia (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus Publisher Comments In the Oresteiathe only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman Publisher Comments The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of research and imagination. Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen Publisher Comments "I have attempted to break down all the areas in which you can work and search for realities in yourself which serve the character and the play…. Put your instincts and sense of truth, your understanding of human realities to use while probing and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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King Lear (Bantam Classics) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Death and the Maiden: Tie-In Edition by Ariel Dorfman Staff Pick Reminiscent of the moral perplexities that became the distinctive feature of Greek drama, Death and the Maiden is an unabashed examination of the sometimes unexpected repercussions inherent in reconciliation with the past. Set in post-Pinochet Chile, or... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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M. Butterfly: With an Afterword by the Playwright by David Henry Hwang Publisher Comments David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments 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 and phrases An introduction... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in the 1980s. "A vast, miraculous play.... provocative, witty and deeply upsetting.... a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama."--Frank... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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