Drama

  • Dancing at Lughnasa: A Play

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    It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The

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    • Author: Friel, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: December 30 1998
    • ISBN10: 0571144799
    • Language: English
  • Far Away

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    “Chilling… Churchill’s play seems to reinvent drama with every other line.” – Village Voice

    “A masterpiece from one of the most valuable playwrights working today. Churchill is that rare dramatist w

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    • Series: Nick Hern Books Drama Classics
    • Author: Churchill, Caryl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: April 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 1559361999
    • Language: English
  • Good People

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    “As tough as it is tender, and shot through with aching authenticity, Good People is that rare play that is timeless and keyed into a specific moment of American life, without the need to grasp for to… [more below]

    • Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 21 2011
    • ISBN10: 1559363932
    • Language: English
  • The Cherry Orchard

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    A fresh take on a classic by the Tony Award-winning playwright of The Humans

    “Mr. Karam’s plays aren’t tearful, but they are often about loss–of love, of health, of innocence–and the messy, haphazar

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    • Author: Chekhov, Anton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 03 2018
    • ISBN10: 155936551X
    • Language: English
  • Hangmen

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    I’m just as good as bloody Pierrepoint.

    In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what’s the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they’ve abolished hanging? A

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    • Series: Faber Drama
    • Author: McDonagh, Martin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 14 2017
    • ISBN10: 0571328873
    • Language: English
  • This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition

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    Dennis–with a famous painter father and social activist mother–is a small-time drug dealer and total mess. His hero-worshipping friend Warren has just impulsively stolen $15,000 from his father, an … [more below]

    • Author: Lonergan, Kenneth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: October 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 1468311077
    • Language: English
  • A Taste of Empire

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    Everything we eat tells a story. In A Taste of Empire, delectable samples from a real-time cooking demonstration offer food for thought about colonialism and the ethics of modern-day food systems.

    Fo

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    • Author: Sy, Jovanni
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 13 2017
    • ISBN10: 1772011606
    • Language: English
  • How to Defend Yourself

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    A Yale Drama Series-winning play about self-defense, desire, and healing in the aftermath of a college rape

    Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defense workshop after a sorority sister is ra

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    • Series: Yale Drama
    • Author: Padilla, Liliana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 22 2020
    • ISBN10: 0300251599
    • Language: English
  • Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

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    The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent c

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    • Author: Aristophanes
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: March 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1324091568
    • Language: English
  • The Rose Tattoo

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    The Rose Tattoo is larger than life–a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama–it is a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be. Professional wido… [more below]

    • Author: Williams, Tennessee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: April 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 0811218821
    • Language: English
  • This Is Shakespeare

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    An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing–not resolving–the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality
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    • Author: Smith, Emma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: February 16 2021
    • ISBN10: 1984898159
    • Language: English
  • The History of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespearethe History of King Lear

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    King Lear, widely considered Shakespeare’s most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Fo… [more below]

  • The Trojan Women and Other Plays

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    This volume of Euripides’ plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy’s survivors are harrowingly depicted. With un… [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Euripides
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 15 2009
    • ISBN10: 0199538816
    • Language: English
  • Torch Song Trilogy: Plays

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    A new edition of the classic drama portraying gay life in New York in the 1970s and 80s–winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, now back on Broadway in a revival hailed by The New York Times as “irre[more below]

    • Author: Fierstein, Harvey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 25 2018
    • ISBN10: 0525618643
    • Language: English
  • Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts

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    William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than 400 years ago when th

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    • Author: Harkup, Kathryn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1472958209
    • Language: English
  • Sophocles: The Complete Plays

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    With new translations and a new afterword

    The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roche’s revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translations of th

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    • Series: Signet Classics
    • Author: Sophocle
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: May 04 2010
    • ISBN10: 0451531531
    • Language: English
  • Lost in Yonkers

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    Neil Simon’s inimitable play about the trials and tribulations that test family ties–winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

    What happens to children in the absence of love? That is the question

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    • Series: Drama, Plume
    • Author: Simon, Neil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: January 01 1993
    • ISBN10: 0452268834
    • Language: English
  • The Night of the Iguana

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    Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine F… [more below]

    • Author: Williams, Tennessee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 30 2009
    • ISBN10: 081121852X
    • Language: English
  • Blood Relations and Other Plays (REV Ed)

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    This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades&#44 among them&#44 the first ever Governor General&#146s Award fo

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    • Series: Prairie Play #22
    • Author: Pollock, Sharon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 16 2002
    • ISBN10: 1896300642
    • Language: English
  • Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

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    Examining the psyche–and psychoses–of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power an

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    • Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 14 2019
    • ISBN10: 0393356973
    • Language: English
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