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The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
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This edition includes three of Sheridan's most famous works. "The Rivals" and...
She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Oliver Goldsmith (c. 1730-1774) was born to an English clergyman in Ireland and is often...
CatoCato
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Joseph Addison's (1672-1719) Play "Cato: A Tragedy", first staged in 1713, inspired...
King Lear (Naxos AudioBooks)King Lear (Naxos AudioBooks)
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The received text of King Lear, Shakespeare's greatest play for our times, comes as always in...
Port AuthorityPort Authority
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Beautifully written and conceived. McPherson has a great knack for giving his characters...


Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of...
Modern African Drama (Norton Critical Editions)Modern African Drama (Norton Critical Editions)
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I bought this book for a class on Modern African Literature, and I have never been a fan of...
The Sonnets (The Pelican Shakespeare)The Sonnets (The Pelican Shakespeare)
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Shakespeare's collection of sonnets is so much a part of the western cultural heritage that...
The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter (Pinter, Harold)The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter (Pinter, Harold)
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One review, until now, is pathetic. This book, featuring two of the absurd, menacing, weighty...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Folger Shakespeare Library)The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: . printed version of...


The Contemporary Monologue: MenThe Contemporary Monologue: Men
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This book includes some of the best monolouges from the worlds newest and bravest playwrights....
Love Poems & Sonnets of William ShakespeareLove Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare
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To be quite truthful I must say that I found Shakespeare's sonnets a little hard to digest until...
The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
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This Oxford World's Classic volume brings together three extant tragedies by Euripides dealing...
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple (Modern Library Paperbacks)Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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The length and density of Midnight's Children was too much for 50% of my family and friends book...
PygmalionPygmalion
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Pygmalion is a comedy which features a unique relationship between a spunky flower girl and her...

Lives of the Saints: Seven One-Act PlaysLives of the Saints: Seven One-Act Plays
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This collection of plays is another wonderful testament to the brilliant David Ives. It was...
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library)The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are be badgered by the lecherous Falstaff, how to arrange a...
To Be Young, Gifted and BlackTo Be Young, Gifted and Black
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This is a good compendium of the author's letters, essays and short prose that comments of...
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works (Oxford World's Classics)Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works (Oxford World's Classics)
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For those of us who enjoy Pushkin but are necessarily restricted to translations, it is a boon...
As You Like It (Signet Classics)As You Like It (Signet Classics)
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Note: This is a review of the particular "Cambridge School Shakespeare" edition...

The Duchess of Malfi (Dover Thrift Editions)The Duchess of Malfi (Dover Thrift Editions)
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John Webster will probably never be as popular as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, or even...
Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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FOLGER Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition...
The SkrikerThe Skriker
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I got to work on the production of this play at the NYSF/Public Theatre many years ago, and it...
Blackbird: A Play (Faber and Faber Plays)Blackbird: A Play (Faber and Faber Plays)
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Fifteen years ago, Una and Ray had a relationship when Una was 12 and Ray was 40. They haven't...
Othello (Cliffs Complete)Othello (Cliffs Complete)
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Save your money. This study edition of Shakespeare's Othello is attractively laid out, with...

Necessary Shakespeare, The (2nd Edition)Necessary Shakespeare, The (2nd Edition)
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I never received this book, The Necessary Shakespeare, from the people I bought it from and I...
The Best American Short Plays 2004-2005 (Best American Short Plays)The Best American Short Plays 2004-2005 (Best American Short Plays)
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The acclaimed series has a new editor. Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60...
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape (Faber Critical Guides)Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape (Faber Critical Guides)
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The Shoemakers Holiday (New Mermaids)The Shoemakers Holiday (New Mermaids)
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Much Ado About Nothing (Dover Thrift Editions)Much Ado About Nothing (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Wonderful movie! Now to find the Flying Karamazov Brothers' rendition of the Merchant of Venice.

Twelfth Night (Arkangel Shakespeare)Twelfth Night (Arkangel Shakespeare)
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Duke Orsino is in love with the noblewoman Olivia, but Olivia is in love with Cesario, and...
CleansedCleansed
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Cleansed is like a nightmare to the reader. The scene is between the perimeter fence of the...
Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's QueenQueenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen
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The topic is interesting and has the potential for an exciting story. However, this author...
Tuesdays with MorrieTuesdays with Morrie
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There was no indication this was the play version. When I returned the book, Amazon deducted...
Henry VIII (Folger Shakespeare Library)Henry VIII (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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This is my second book of Folger Shakespeare Library and I'm very happy with it as with my first...

Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Bantam Classic)Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Bantam Classic)
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To have the four great tragedies together raises the question of what the essence, the real...
Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare)Othello (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
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Modern editions of a popular and trusted series. This new edition of Othello is part of the...
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Highbridge Classics)Shakespeare's Sonnets (Highbridge Classics)
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We purchased this audiobook with our children in mind, hoping it might serve as an introduction...
Amphitryon, by MoliereAmphitryon, by Moliere
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Wilbur faithfully reproduces some of Moliere's more experimental versification in this update of...
Federico Garcia Lorca: A LifeFederico Garcia Lorca: A Life
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Federico Garcia Lorca is one of the best poets in history of Spanish literature. In a country...

The Contemporary Monologue: WomenThe Contemporary Monologue: Women
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The Contemporary Monologue is an exciting selection of speeches of all types, serious and comic,...
Churchill: Plays Three (Collected Plays)Churchill: Plays Three (Collected Plays)
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Includes: Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Shriker, Lives of the Great Poisoners and A Mouthful of...
Shakespeare's Metrical ArtShakespeare's Metrical Art
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I found this to be a truly absorbing and comprehensive study not just of Shakespeare, but of...
Julius Caesar (The Annotated Shakespeare)Julius Caesar (The Annotated Shakespeare)
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The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial...
The Merchant of Venice: Texts and Contexts (The Bedford Shakespeare Series)The Merchant of Venice: Texts and Contexts (The Bedford Shakespeare Series)
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This edition of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice reprints the Bevington edition of the...

The Blue Room: A Play in Ten Intimate ActsThe Blue Room: A Play in Ten Intimate Acts
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My university is putting on The Blue Room this Spring, and I wanted to purchase a copy of the...
Titus Andronicus (The Pelican Shakespeare)Titus Andronicus (The Pelican Shakespeare)
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Titus is the play for our day of crumbling and self-destructing empire; this fable has much to...
As You Like It (Oxford School Shakespeare)As You Like It (Oxford School Shakespeare)
Best Price: $5.45
The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series that helps students to understand and...
An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).)An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).)
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A professor of mine told me that AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE is not a very good play, so I read it...
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with <i>The Lady Falkland:  Her Life</i>, by One of Her DaughtersThe Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters
Best Price: $7.75
An interesting read, taking place in roughly the same time as Shakespeare's Antony and...

The Essential Pinter: Selections from the Work of Harold Pinter (Grove Press Eastern Philosophy and Literature)The Essential Pinter: Selections from the Work of Harold Pinter (Grove Press Eastern Philosophy and Literature)
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I'm Korean-American with a Korean mother, and when I was little, I remember her telling me some...
Black Watch (Ff Plays)Black Watch (Ff Plays)
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The Complete Signet Classic ShakespeareThe Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare
Coming across old treasures like The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare is always a welcome...
My Cousin RachelMy Cousin Rachel
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A real page turner. I had read the book long time ago and had completely forgotten. I am glad I...
A Taste of Honey: A PlayA Taste of Honey: A Play
Best Price: $7.00
I found this play to be both fascinating and not the least boring. As said before, perhaps it is...

NotebooksNotebooks
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Thornton, Margaret Bradham, ed. "Tennessee Williams Notebooks", Yale University Press,...
    
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