Drama Books


Zoot Suit and Other PlaysZoot Suit and Other Plays
Best Price: $5.00
I enjoyed reading the play Zoot Suit. It focuses mainly on the Zoot Suit riots of the 1940's in...
Much Ado About Nothing for Kids (Shakespeare Can Be Fun!)Much Ado About Nothing for Kids (Shakespeare Can Be Fun!)
Best Price: $5.18
This is one of those series that is so well done you can't imagaine EVERYONE not knowing about...
Four Plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (Focus Classical Library)Four Plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (Focus Classical Library)
Best Price: $11.66
I found all 4 plays in this book easy to read & easy to get into...this book was awesome...
Michael Caine - Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (The Applause Acting Series) Revised Expanded EditionMichael Caine - Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (The Applause Acting Series) Revised Expanded Edition
Best Price: $10.00
Having loved the music from this film for many years, I decided to watch it. I thought it would...
Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare)Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
Best Price: $1.99
wonderful, short dramatic exercises that illuminate the play and make it accessible and fun for...


Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of ShakespeareAsimov's Guide to Shakespeare: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of Shakespeare
Best Price: $14.13
this book was recommended by the instructor for a course on Shakespeare I took, to help those of...
Joe Turner's Come and GoneJoe Turner's Come and Gone
Best Price: $3.51
Herald Loomis says this to his estranged wife in the final scene of this play, set in a 1911...
Faust: A Tragedy (Norton Critical Editions)Faust: A Tragedy (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $14.93
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a marvel. How he managed to write a dark, complicated, and...
Sarah Kane: Complete PlaysSarah Kane: Complete Plays
Best Price: $13.97
A unique voice that took her life too soon. These plays are an important testament to the IN...
The SeafarerThe Seafarer
Best Price: $8.11
I bought this because the Irish brogues were sometimes a little hard to understand on-stage,...


Dutchman and The Slave: Two PlaysDutchman and The Slave: Two Plays
Best Price: $2.72
LeRoi Jones, now known as Amiri Baraka, wrote Dutchman in 1964, but its themes of racism and...
Ten Plays by EuripidesTen Plays by Euripides
Best Price: $2.92
I had read some of his work in another version and wasn't very impressed. I am holding him to...
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other PlaysPicasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
Best Price: $3.99
Well, there you have it. The English theater has Tom Stoppard and the American, Steve Martin. In...
Arsenic and Old LaceArsenic and Old Lace
Best Price: $4.46
This play is an absolute joy to read, with characters who come into their own, If anyone loves...
King Lear (Signet Classics)King Lear (Signet Classics)
Best Price: $0.48
This paperback is a handy edition of Shakespeare's great play, useful for students on all...

Communication Theories in Action: An Introduction (with InfoTrac?)Communication Theories in Action: An Introduction (with InfoTrac?)
Best Price: $69.94
I adopted this book for my an advanced communication class and was delighted with the results. ...
The Taming of the Shrew (No Fear Shakespeare) (No Fear Shakespeare)The Taming of the Shrew (No Fear Shakespeare) (No Fear Shakespeare)
Best Price: $2.76
I teach Shakespeare classes to middle- and high-school aged students and have come to rely on...
Spring Awakening: A PlaySpring Awakening: A Play
Best Price: $6.83
I heard Franzen speak about how unfaithful the recent NY production was to Wedekind's...
Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)
Best Price: $3.33
any time an undergraduate finds himself repeatedly correcting the work of a scholar, something...
Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)
Best Price: $3.33
any time an undergraduate finds himself repeatedly correcting the work of a scholar, something...

Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and MacbethShakespeare Set Free: Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth
Best Price: $11.40
Getting high school students interested in Shakespeare seems to be the test of any English...
The Seagull Reader: LiteratureThe Seagull Reader: Literature
Best Price: $28.15
This comprehensive Seagull Reader: Literature reader includes the full contents of the three...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dover Thrift Editions)A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
A midsummer Night's Dream has a lot of spunk!! I think it was a little difficult to understand...
Shakespeare's Hamlet (Cliffs Complete)Shakespeare's Hamlet (Cliffs Complete)
Best Price: $2.63
This book is a great way to make it through Hamlet and actually understand it! The sidenotes...
Metamorphoses: A PlayMetamorphoses: A Play
Best Price: $8.00
I am currently involved in this play with my local theatre, and when we first read through the...

Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three PlaysBlithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three Plays
Best Price: $7.50
This is an important author, although poor Noel lived to see himself both scorned and forgotten....
Othello (Signet Classic Shakespeare)Othello (Signet Classic Shakespeare)
Best Price: $0.50
Forty-plus years ago, when I first started reading Shakespeare, I liked the Signet Classic...
Plays for the Theatre (Wadsworth Series in Theatre)Plays for the Theatre (Wadsworth Series in Theatre)
Best Price: $65.99
I purchased Plays for the Theatre at Amazon for a fraction of the cost of the bookstore price....
The Tempest (Norton Critical Editions)The Tempest (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $7.25
The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare's most insightful meditations on the cycle of...
Othello (Signet Classic Shakespeare)Othello (Signet Classic Shakespeare)
Best Price: $0.50
Forty-plus years ago, when I first started reading Shakespeare, I liked the Signet Classic...

Plays for the Theatre (Wadsworth Series in Theatre)Plays for the Theatre (Wadsworth Series in Theatre)
Best Price: $65.99
I purchased Plays for the Theatre at Amazon for a fraction of the cost of the bookstore price....
The Tempest (Norton Critical Editions)The Tempest (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $7.25
The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare's most insightful meditations on the cycle of...
Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
Best Price: $5.47
William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" was performed at the Globe Theater in 1605-06....
The Plays of Anton ChekhovThe Plays of Anton Chekhov
Best Price: $8.80
It neither surprises nor pleases me to learn that this is the current actor's standard for...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare)A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Best Price: $1.88
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back...

Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library)Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $2.62
Each edition includes: ? Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the...
LysistrataLysistrata
Best Price: $3.67
Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays (Dover Thrift Editions)Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
Brush up on your olde English and add this classic to your library.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
Best Price: $5.61
Authoritative and accessible editions for schools and colleges, offering: Complete and...
Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the TextFreeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text
Best Price: $10.71
In one of the most eloquent handbooks I've ever had the pleasure to peruse, Kristin Linklater...

Stories on Stage: Children's Plays for Reader's Theater (or Readers Theatre), With 15 Play Scripts From 15 Authors, Including Roald Dahl's The Twits and Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories from Wayside SchoolStories on Stage: Children's Plays for Reader's Theater (or Readers Theatre), With 15 Play Scripts From 15 Authors, Including Roald Dahl's The Twits and Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Best Price: $12.50
This book is formatted so easily, it took me MUCH less time than I thought it would to prepare a...
Communicate! (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac )Communicate! (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac )
Best Price: $30.50
The book is good but was a requirement for speech class but I don't believe I would run out and...
Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $5.99
Shaw's keen understanding of French Patriotism as illustrated in Joan of Arc story transcends...
Translations: A Play (Faber Paperbacks)Translations: A Play (Faber Paperbacks)
Best Price: $5.60
I'll admit I had expected this play to be another political statement about disappearing...
Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra & Philoctetes (The Complete Greek Tragedies)Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra & Philoctetes (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
Best Price: $3.88
When I entered college, I was surprised to hear that there were so few Greek tragedies extent in...

Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)
Best Price: $4.91
This book combines a riveting trial of good and evil. The characters of Faust and...
Waiting for Lefty and Other PlaysWaiting for Lefty and Other Plays
Best Price: $6.95
As a leftist, inspiring pieces of literature are not exactly few and far between - but ones this...
Twelve Plays by ShakespeareTwelve Plays by Shakespeare
Best Price: $11.46
This boxed set contains 12 separate paperback books (Dover Thrift Editions). They're fairly...
Lysistrata (Hackett Classics Series)Lysistrata (Hackett Classics Series)
Best Price: $4.99
I thought that this would be a very dry and difficult read. It is actually very interesting, and...
Spring AwakeningSpring Awakening
Best Price: $8.08
Excellent book. EXACTLY line for line from the musical. I highly suggest reading...

The Lieutenant of InishmoreThe Lieutenant of Inishmore
Best Price: $5.57
I saw this play at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway (7/9/06, Sunday matinee) not even a week ago...
The Compact Bedford Introduction to DramaThe Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama
Best Price: $55.57
I had to buy this book as part of a college course curriculum. It basically is filled with...
Romeo & Juliet (Oxford School Shakespeare)Romeo & Juliet (Oxford School Shakespeare)
Best Price: $5.64
Authoritative and accessible editions for schools and colleges, offering: Complete and...
Ten Plays (Signet Classics)Ten Plays (Signet Classics)
Best Price: $4.00
This is a very good classic but missing one key item. Many classics refer to line numbers from...
Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
Best Price: $3.71
"Hedda Gabler" is one of Henrik Ibsen's greatest dramas. It is the story of its title...

The Little Dog LaughedThe Little Dog Laughed
Best Price: $5.57
An actress friend of mine, Elayne Wilks, said that you know the playwright is in trouble when...
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Best Price: $3.00
One of my Amazon friends recently reviewed a compilation of "Shakespeare's Sonnets,"...
Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Best Price: $7.32
I always find the prospect of reading ancient literature daunting, but this play was very easy...
Cool Characters for Kids! 71 One-Minute Monologues, Ages 4-12Cool Characters for Kids! 71 One-Minute Monologues, Ages 4-12
Best Price: $10.75
This book is very well organized and it has both comic and dramatic monologues for boys and...
 
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