Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn't recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buff ...Show more
Woman Alone and Other Plays by FO DARIO FRANCA RAME
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences"The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh now, ...Show more
A Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose ‘heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition ...Show more
Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This Norton Critical Edition includes five of Chekhov's major plays-Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard-and three early one-act farces that inform his later work-The Bear, The Wedding, and The Celebration. Laurence Senelick's masterful translations closely preserve Ch ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays
The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon the ancient tradition of the Chalk Circle, a comical judge sets about resolving the dispute. But in a cult ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers * a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings * on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and muc ...Show more
An Artist's Life: By Eleanora Antinova by Eleanor Antin Antin
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
History is fiction and personal identity nothing more than historical illusion: Eleanora Antinova is the renowned US contemporary artist Eleanor Antin - Eleanor Antin is Eleanora Antinova, a black American ballerina. Shifting the boundaries between art and life this book publishes the exciting memoirs o ...Show more
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc (canonized in 1920), but unhappy with "the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition," he presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, na ve, foolhardy, always brave-a rebel who challenge ...Show more
Twelfth Night: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; A. R. Braunmuller (Series edited by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by); Jonathan Crewe (Editor, Introduction by)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, based on the short story "Of Apolonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich. It is named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas season. It was written around 1601 and first published in the First Folio ...Show more
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present by Michael Billington
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal selection of the 101 greatest plays ranging from the Greeks to the present-day. But his book is no mere list. Bil ...Show more
Othello: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
Othello William Shakespeare Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and ...Show more