Drama Books


The Crucible (Penguin Classics)The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $6.07
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a great book to read with a mother-daughter book club. It...
A Raisin in the SunA Raisin in the Sun
Best Price: $2.92
It is a nice book. The characters personalities made the book good. If the characters were...
Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
Best Price: $5.10
This classic play by Arthur Miller (1915-2005) examines human failure, high expectations, and...
August: Osage CountyAugust: Osage County
Best Price: $8.19
The Broadway performance features scintillating acting, a gorgeous set, and plenty of witty...
Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $2.47
Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version...


The Glass MenagerieThe Glass Menagerie
Best Price: $4.58
This classic tale by Tennessee Williams captures the reader's emotions by so forcefully...
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
Best Price: $4.50
What can I say, it is the script to Our Town. I have found a couple of places where it differes...
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.57
Shakespeare was not very kind to the linchpin of his story. The tragedy of Macbeth the king...
The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $4.99
No one can study the greek classics without these titles; a spring board to other works. Page...
Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $2.32
Innocent love is the most pure... and the sight of those who are in that beautiful whirlwind of...


FencesFences
Best Price: $5.53
Fences is a fantastic play by August Wilson. It expresses very real emotions and language, and...
The Crucible (Penguin Plays)The Crucible (Penguin Plays)
Best Price: $2.95
Arthur Miller's Crucible is an eloquent rebuttal of the Red Scare and the McCarthyism of the...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are DeadRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Best Price: $4.99
No mean to be offensive or anything, but I honestly feel that if people do not find R&G Are...
The Importance of Being EarnestThe Importance of Being Earnest
Best Price: $3.99
this is a novel always on fashion. hte dialogs are simply brilliant. oscar wilde picture a great...
Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.92
The most beautiful aspect of the play is Iago's ingenious deception of Othello. In every phrase,...

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two ActsWaiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Best Price: $3.90
Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ... Review of Play: Waiting for Godot - A Tragicomedy in...
Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $1.59
Julius Caesar is a classic book that everyone should read. This play of Shakespeare tells an...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $1.95
For some bizarre reason, schools push the most painfully boring works by any author. In...
A Man for All SeasonsA Man for All Seasons
Best Price: $4.50
This excellent play explores the conflict between Thomas More and Henry VIII over the break with...
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, AntigoneSophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Best Price: $3.99
This version of Sophocles's Oedipus trilogy--Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone--is a...

Oedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone EditionOedipus Rex - Literary Touchstone Edition
Best Price: $3.99
THIS EDITION HAS SPACE FOR YOUR NOTES, AND ALONG THE SIDE IT HAS NOTES THAT HELP YOU BETTER...
The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.57
Most reviewers focus on the issue of religion - Shylock as a Jew - but fail to look past the...
Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
Oh my! I love it! G.B. Shaw's character Henry Higgins is disdainful, petulant and impetuous. ...
A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone EditionA Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
Best Price: $3.99
Ladies, if you're unhappy at home, this book is definately for you. Timeless, controversial,...
A Streetcar Named Desire.A Streetcar Named Desire.
Best Price: $5.64
The choice of copies of _The Streetcar Named Desire_ (required reading for high school...

Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies)Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
Best Price: $4.97
I generally do not review classics, because I find it impossible to adequately review a genuine...
King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $2.18
Lear starts his tragedy with a lie. He has divided his kingdom into one larger and two smaller...
No Exit and Three Other PlaysNo Exit and Three Other Plays
Best Price: $4.56
Legendary French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre invites his readers to truly get in...
Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.57
I've been avoiding Shakespeare for quiet a while because, first, English is not my first...
The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.95
I like Shakespeare, but the Bard was having an off day with this one. It rambled, it didn't...

The Clean House and Other PlaysThe Clean House and Other Plays
Best Price: $10.13
I read a profile of Sara Ruhl in THE NEW YORKER and was intrigued by the lack of psychologizing...
Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare)Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare)
Best Price: $2.00
It would serve no useful purpose to write a review of Hamlet. It has already taken its rightful...
Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $1.57
The Folger Shakespeare edition of this play gives it a leg up on other versions as far as...
Long Day's Journey into NightLong Day's Journey into Night
Best Price: $4.89
Eugene O'Neill's classic play, "Long Day's Journey into Night," is an autobiographical...
Inherit the WindInherit the Wind
Best Price: $3.35
It was written decades ago, inspired on a famous trial that had taken place years earlier, yet...

The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $3.00
All drama exists in the shadow of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece; Aeschylus,...
The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
This book has remained one of my favorites since reading it in high school ~5 years ago. I have...
The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Best Price: $1.61
This play is one of Shakespeare's most ribald, but I enjoyed it just the same. It's lusty,...
Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies)Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
Best Price: $6.35
This Greek tragedy in three parts is a continuation of the life of Agamemnon and his family...
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Deluxe EditionWilliam Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Deluxe Edition
Best Price: $12.32
I was impressed by the value and quality of this book.... Outstanding!!!! A great book, it...

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Deluxe EditionWilliam Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Deluxe Edition
Best Price: $12.32
I was impressed by the value and quality of this book.... Outstanding!!!! A great book, it...
A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
A Doll's House is an outstanding play that brings up many topics into question, topics such as...
Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)
Best Price: $2.88
This is an excellent book for anyone who has trouble with reading and interpreting shakespears...
The Book of LizThe Book of Liz
Best Price: $6.00
The delivery was quick. This was something my daughter had on her Christmas list. She was very...
The Sunset LimitedThe Sunset Limited
Best Price: $7.79
Based on other reviews, this was more or less what I expected. There were some great stretches,...

Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics Series)Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics Series)
Best Price: $2.49
Oedipus the King is one of the classic works of Western literature. It was originally written as...
Arcadia: A PlayArcadia: A Play
Best Price: $3.81
Tom Stoppard is a genius. Math and love and English gardens and waltzing and the river of time.
Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading PlaysBackwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
Best Price: $12.25
It seems like reading would require no specific techniques, that they would come naturally to...
A Streetcar Named DesireA Streetcar Named Desire
Best Price: $3.97
When I was 13 I unearthed two pieces of interesting horror from digging around in the family...
The SeafarerThe Seafarer
Best Price: $8.07
I bought this because the Irish brogues were sometimes a little hard to understand on-stage,...

Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Penguin Plays)Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Penguin Plays)
Best Price: $5.99
Our theater group decided to do this play this season. I'm ashamed to say I had not heard of it...
Twelve Angry Men (Penguin Classics)Twelve Angry Men (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $6.03
I teach this play in high school, and students just love it. If you use the book with the movie,...
The Miracle WorkerThe Miracle Worker
Best Price: $2.58
This was a favorite of mine as a small girl... came the day after Christmas, but was ordered...
Cyrano De BergeracCyrano De Bergerac
Best Price: $1.11
Cyrano De Bergerac is a moving tale about looking past appearances. its thought provoking and...
Rock 'n' Roll: A New PlayRock 'n' Roll: A New Play
Best Price: $7.34
Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play I am taking a class, studying playwrights Harold Pinter, August...

The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, ImmediateThe Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
Best Price: $4.50
I am not very knowledgeable about Theatre and certainly not about Theory of Theatre. I found...
Murder in the CathedralMurder in the Cathedral
Best Price: $2.50
My high school put on the play, "Murder in the Cathedral" for their fall drama in...
Wit : A PlayWit : A Play
Best Price: $6.71
Simple, poignant and funny. I saw the movie starring Emma Thompson and was moved to read the...
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Made Easy)Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Made Easy)
Best Price: $2.00
I bought this book for my high school Shakespeare class and found it to be the most helpful...
The Piano LessonThe Piano Lesson
Best Price: $3.44
Part of Wilson's century long tetra-cycle about African-Americans in Pittsburgh, this play is...
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