The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
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Category: Theatre | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
Power (Vintage Minis) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
A selection of Shakespeare's greatest speeches and scenes on the subject that fired many of his plays - power.Selected from across Shakespeare's plays
For We the Young by Finegan Kruckemeyer
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Category: Theatre
"In For We The Young, a collection of plays by one of Australias most beloved writers of theatre for young people, Finegan Kruckemeyer offers a glimpse into worlds of quiet sorrow and deep joy, daring feats and ingenious leaps. His quirky humour and surprising stories release the imagination and let it ...Show more
Antony and Cleopatra: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; A. R. Braunmuller (Editor, Introduction by, Series edited by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by)
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Category: Theatre | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters - the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indol ...Show more
William Shakespeare Tragedies (Word Cloud Classics) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Twelve of Shakespeare's most profound and moving dramas in one elegant volume. William Shakespeare's tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twel ...Show more
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
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Category: Theatre
Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance--More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare--a ...Show more
Our Town: A Play In Three Acts by Thornton Wilder
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Category: Theatre
" Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth."-- New Yorker Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire--an allegorical representation ...Show more
Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood
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Category: Theatre | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tia ...Show more
Coriolanus (The Pelican Shakespeare) by Jonathan (EDT) William; Crewe Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
A highly political play, Coriolanus concerns a military hero of ancient Rome who attempts to shift from his career as a general to become a candidate for public office -- a disastrous move that leads to his collaborating with the enemy and heading an attack on Rome. Despite his battlefield confidence an ...Show more
Hamletics - Shakespeare, Kafka, Beckett by Massimo Cacciari; Matteo Mandarini (Translator)
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Category: Theatre | Series: The\Italian List Ser.
One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation.During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity could still think in terms of partisan struggles in ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
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Category: Theatre
'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to whoever has ears and eyes . . .' Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stag ...Show more