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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	All for Love New Mermaids John Dryden; Edited by N.J. Andrew Methuen Drama All for Love or, The World Well Lost is John Dryden's 1677 adaptation of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra into a neo-classical quintet with supporting...

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Everyman and Mankind

Arden Early Modern Drama

Edited by Douglas Bruster and Eric Rasmussen Arden Shakespeare

Everyman and 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.

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	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...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Anouilh Plays: 1 Antigone, Leocardia, The Waltz of the Toreasors, The Lark, Poor Bitos World Classics Jean Anouilh Methuen Drama A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights. Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Antigone Student Editions Jean Anouilh Ted Freeman Methuen Drama Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative...

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle; Translated by S. H. Butcher; Introduction by Francis Fergusson Hill and Wang Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental...

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Proof

A Play

David Auburn Faber and Faber, Inc.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"Auburn has taken on some biggies here: what the link may be between genius and mental instability, why it is that lives get stuck, and how elusive the truth can be . . . [Proof's] level of accomplishment and the realness of its characters show that Auburn has both depth and a voice."—The New Yorker

Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Drama

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Comic Potential A Play Alan Ayckbourn Faber and Faber, Inc. 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...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	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 Faber and Faber, Inc. 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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Philaster

Arden Early Modern Drama

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher; Edited by Suzanne Gossett Arden Shakespeare

This edition provides an authoritative, modernized text by a leading scholar with detailed on-page commentary notes giving readers a deeper understanding of the play. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction discusses Philaster from a performance perspective as well as its relation to Shakespearean drama, and places it in its historical and critical contexts.

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Knight of the Burning Pestle New Mermaids Francis Beaumont Michael Hattaway Methuen Drama 'Let him kill a lion with a pestle, husband; let him kill a lion with a pestle.' So exclaims the Grocer's wife who, with her husband and servants, is...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Rover New Mermaids Aphra Behn Robyn Bolam Methuen Drama Callis: What, go in masquerade?what would you do there? Hellena: That which all the world doesbe as mad as the rest and take all innocent freedoms Aphra Behn...

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Writing Home

Alan Bennett Picador

Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England’s best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	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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The History Boys: A Play

Alan Bennett Faber and Faber, Inc.

"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, The New York Times

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The Habit of Art

A Play

Alan Bennett Faber and Faber, Inc.

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H....

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	The Exonerated A Play Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen Faber and Faber, Inc. "[A] stark, spellbinding play [and] a profoundly moving excursion through the cracks in the justice system."—Peter Marks, The Washington Post

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Thinking Like a Director A Practical Handbook Michael Bloom Faber and Faber, Inc. "Thinking Like a Director helps fill the void of practical handbooks that are available to theater directors. It is smart and lucidly written and should prove to be an invaluable guidebook for students and emerging directors."—Donald Margulies

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	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...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Saved Student Editions Edward Bond David Davis Methuen Drama Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties and reflects a time of social change. Its subject...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Brecht on Theatre The Development of an Aesthetic Bertolt Brecht; Edited and Translated by John Willett Hill and Wang This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956,...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Caucasian Chalk Circle Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett Ralph Manheim Tania Stern W. H. Auden Methuen Drama Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Threepenny Opera Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators John Willett and Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Mother Courage and Her Children Modern Classics Bertolt Brecht; Translators: John Willett and Ralph Manheim Methuen Drama In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen...