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The History Boys: A Play
Alan Bennett
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"Madly enjoyable . . . Mr. Bennett's dialogue [is] as shimmering and warming as a fine Cognac . . . [One is] always aware of the complex emotional currents of doubt, perplexity and eroticism that throbs among practically everyone onstage."—
Ben Brantley,
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An Oresteia
Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides
Aiskhylos; Sophokles; Euripides; Translated by Anne Carson
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"Carson calls her book
An Oresteia
—as opposed to the
Oresteia
. This isn’t the trilogy of Aeschylus. Rather, the book consists of plays by three different authors: Aeschylus’
Agamemnon
, Sophocles’
Electra
, Euripides’
Orestes
. Each takes up some aspect of the House of Atreus, whose members, relations and dependents included not only Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and Helen, but Orestes, Electra, Menelaus, Cassandra . . . Many of them, predictably, came to a bad end. Half a century separates
Agamemnon
from
Orestes
, and Carson, who supplies an introduction to each play, offers interesting speculation about how shifts in tone and perspective may reflect developments in Athenian history. Perhaps equally striking, however, is the continuity in her trilogy. In American poetry, anyway, 50 years is a long time (it would bridge the gulf between, say, Robert Frost and John Ashbery), and Carson’s intelligent compilation—
an
Oresteia
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Brad Leithauser,
The New York Times Book Review
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Democracy
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Michael Frayn; With a Postscript by the Author
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"Anyone who mourns the disappearance of leaders with real civility and magnetism—or of topical dramas with the same attributes—will be buoyed by [this] extraordinary play . . .
Democracy
is not another game of Cold War cat-and-mouse. It's really a play about loyalty, one that, in a satisfying way, ends up testing ours."—
Peter Marks,
The Washington Post
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Blackbird
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David Harrower
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"Harrower's drama positively explodes with unresolved, and possibly irresolvable, concerns . . . his brooding ambiguity and his dry, resonating poetry culminate in one of the most daring new plays of recent years."—
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The Burial at Thebes
A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
Seamus Heaney
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"[Heaney has] composed a poem full of brilliant strokes . . . He varies his rhythms ingeniously."—
Garry Wills,
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The Overwhelming
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J. T. Rogers
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"I loved how messy the play's structure is, and Rogers’s great ambition as a writer . . . the Third World is seen in the harsh glare of a bare light bulb—the author's intelligence . . . [Rogers] explores a kind of anthropology of the self, making a narrative out of his own disenfranchisement."—
Hilton Als,
The New Yorker
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Everyman and Mankind
Arden Early Modern Drama
Anonymous
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Everyman
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Mankind
are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual.
Everyman
follows a man’s journey towards death and his efforts to secure himself a life thereafter, while
Mankind
shows a man battling with temptation and sin, often with great humor.
Both texts are modernized here and edited to the highest standards of scholarship, with full on-page commentaries giving the depth of information and insight associated with all Arden editions.
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Five Plays
Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette
Jean Anouilh
Hill and Wang
The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays—the finest...
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Comic Potential
A Play
Alan Ayckbourn
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A sci-fi comedy thriller, Comic Potential is a play set in the foreseeable future, when everything has changed--except human nature Comic Potential is set...
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House & Garden
Two Plays
Alan Ayckbourn
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Two dazzling new interconnected plays from the acclaimed author of Communicating Doors. Two plays -- designed to be performed simultaneously and involving...
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Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 3
Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land, Private Fears in Public Places
Alan Ayckbourn; With an Introduction by the Author
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In this third volume of his collected plays, Alan Ayckbourn takes his signature acerbic wit into the territory of the lonely and isolated, focusing on everyone...
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The Complete Talking Heads
Alan Bennett
Picador
"
Talking Heads
places Alan Bennett in the highest tier of English dramatic writers."—
The New York Times
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History Play
The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe
Rodney Bolt
Bloomsbury USA
Rodney Bolt’s delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we’ve...
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Marina Carr: Plays 1
Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats...
Marina Carr
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Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new voice in playwrighting. Carr has been praised for the beauty and uniqueness of her language, was cited...
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Alcestis
A Play
Euripedes; Translated and Adapted by Ted Hughes
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In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was...
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Spring Awakening
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Frank Wedekind; Translated and with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen
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First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind’s controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity...
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Dancing at Lughnasa
A Play
Brian Friel
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It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages...
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Brian Friel: Plays 2
Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney
Brian Friel; Introduction by Christopher Murray
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Plays Two: Dancing at Lughnasa Fathers and Sons Making History Wonderful Tennessee Molly Sweeney Introduced by Christopher Murray, this second...
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Translations
A Play
Brian Friel
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The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field...
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Philadelphia, Here I Come!
A Play
Brian Friel
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Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and his humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated...
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Blood Wedding
A Play
Federico Garcia Lorca; In a New Version by Ted Hughes
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Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran...
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Three Plays
Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca; The New Authorized English Translations by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata; Introduction by Christopher Maurer
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In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic...
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My Zinc Bed
A Play
David Hare
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A darkly comic look at love and addiction by the author of Amy's View When struggling poet, reformed alcoholic, and devout Alcoholics Anonymous adherent...
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Asking Around
Background to the David Hare Trilogy
David Hare
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The candid interviews that formed the basis for David Hare's famed trilogy of plays about the state of Britain in the early 1990s. Asking Around is a...
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