Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Plays | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
This Scholastic Classics edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragi-comedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. These violent delights have violent ends... When Romeoand Julietmeet during a chance encounter, they have no idea what lies ahead - for these star-crossed loversbelong to ...Show more
Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw; Jean Chothia (Editor)
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Category: Plays | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
'What other judgment can I judge by but my own?' Charting the meteoric rise and fall of Joan of Arc and her mission to drive the English from France, Shaw's Saint Joan draws directly on the medieval records to cut through the sentiment that characterized previous literary treatments of her story. A ...Show more
The Tempest (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Plays | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
"No Fear Shakespeare" gives you the complete text of "The Tempest" on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language ...Show more
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
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Category: Plays
"Betrayal is a new departure and a bold one...Pinter has found a way of making memory active and dramatic, giving an audience the experience of the mind's accelerating momentum as it pieces together the past with a combination of curiosity and regret. He shows man betrayed not only by man, but by time - ...Show more
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays | Series: Modern Classics
In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. This prizewinning translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richar ...Show more
Blasted by Sarah Kane
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Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Blasted is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that year's theatre season, making front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel room and the hellish devastation of civil wa ...Show more
Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane
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Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
A rewriting of the Phaedra myth, "Phaedra's Love" continued Kane's fragmentation of naturalism, and was her first play to deal explicitly with what was to become her main theme: love. Hippolytus, the spoiled prince, is driven to preserve his self inviolate. Emotions, particularly love, and need of any t ...Show more
Crave - Sarah Kane by Sarah Kane
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Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire "A hugely unnerving theatrical experience, shot through with the language of the Bible and a genuinely poetic richness" (Time Out) "A dramatic poem in ...Show more
Cleansed by Sarah Kane
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Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays
This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998 A provocative play from the notorious author of Blasted, which probes the nightmarish world of twenty-somethings coming to grips with sexuality, social ostracism and the effects of dru ...Show more
Hamlet: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Arden Performance Editions
The young Prince Hamlet, returning from university, finds his Kingdom in disarray: 'something is rotten in the state of Denmark'. With his father dead, and his uncle and mother marrying, Hamlet is confronted by an armored ghost, who, claiming to be the King, implores him to enact revenge upon the newlyw ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Arden Performance Editions
For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing page notes – including short definitions of words, key textual ...Show more
Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
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Category: Plays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.