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Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, and The Atheist's Tragedy) (Oxford World's Classics)

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: July 2008

Seller ID: 286842

ISBN: 0199540535

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while registering the strains of life in an increasingly fragile social hierarchy. This edition includes Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the anonymous The Revenger's Tragedy (variously ascribed to Cyril Tourneur and Thomas Middleton), The Revenge of Bussy D'Amb...
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Disgraced

By: Akhtar, Ayad

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Publisher: February 2016

Seller ID: 483915

ISBN: 0316324469

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"Sparkling and combustible" (Bloomberg Businessweek), "DISGRACED rubs all kinds of unexpected raw spots with intelligence and humor" (Newsday). "In dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence, Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another.... Everyone has been told that politics and religion are two subjects that should be off-limits at social gatherings. But watching these characters rip into these forbidden topics, there's no arguing that the...
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The American Dream and Zoo Story

By: Albee, Edward

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Publisher: Plume: October 1997

Seller ID: 190603

ISBN: 0452278899

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The American Dream and Zoo Story

By: Albee, Edward

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Plume: October 1997

Seller ID: 446119

ISBN: 0452278899

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Albee, Edward

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Berkley: March 1983

Seller ID: 437254

ISBN: 0451158717

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<...
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Albee, Edward

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Berkley: March 1983

Seller ID: 472208

ISBN: 0451158717

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<...
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Becket

By: Anouilh, Jean

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Publisher: May 2014

Seller ID: 275908

ISBN: 039951354X

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Five Plays Volume 2

By: Anouilh, Jean

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 368391

ISBN: 974567

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Becket or The Honor of God

By: Anouilh, Jean

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Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan: September 1986

Seller ID: 417869

ISBN: 069810031x

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Three Plays: The Waters of Babylon, Live Like Pigs, The Happy Haven

By: Arden, John

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Seller ID: 395831

ISBN: 6614104

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Cenci

By: Artaud, Antonin

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Seller ID: 389680

ISBN: E532

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Proof: A Play

By: Auburn, David

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: March 2001

Seller ID: 149552

ISBN: 0571199976

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Proof is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

One of the most acclaimed plays of the 1999-2000 season, Proof is a work that explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of science.
It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine's fa...
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Two Great Plays by WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood

By: Auden, WH

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Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 194889

ISBN: 192482

Binding: Unknown

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Three Plays: Absurd Person Singular; Absent Friends; Bedroom Farce

By: Ayckbourn, Alan

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Seller ID: 401380

ISBN: 0802131573

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New Plays from the Black Theatre

By: Bantam

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Publisher: Bantam Books: January 1972

Seller ID: 463412

ISBN: B001EZ40NS

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Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Bchner, Georg

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 2008

Seller ID: 439406

ISBN: 0199540357

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This collection of Buchner's three theatrical works includes Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his "black" romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on which Alban Berg based his famous opera. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a century but today have found an important place in the modern repertory.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most ...
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Salome

By: Beardsley, Aubrey

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Publisher: September 2015

Seller ID: 301371

ISBN: 0486218309

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Lord Alfred Douglas' translation of Wilde's great play -- originally written in French -- with all well-known Beardsley illustrations, including the front and back cover designs, the title and List of Illustrations page decorations, the "original cul de lampe," as well as three suppressed plates. Features an introduction by Robert Ross.

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Waiting for Godot

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Grove Press: January 1978

Seller ID: 47386

ISBN: 0394172043

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

By: Beckett, Samuel

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Publisher: Grove Press: January 1994

Seller ID: 47779

ISBN: 0802130348

Binding: Trade Paperback

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As Vladimir and Estragon await the arrival of Godot, they discuss their lives and consider hanging themselves, but choose to wait for Godot instead, in the hope that he can tell them what their purpose is.
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Endgame: A Play in One Act and Act Without Words

By: Beckett, Samuel

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Publisher: Grove Press: January 1994

Seller ID: 75404

ISBN: 0802150241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.
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