After Magritte By Tom Stoppard

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Title	:	After Magritte
Author	:	Tom Stoppard
ISBN	:	0573620024
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	32

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Mother lies prone on an ironing board under a basket of fruit suspended from the ceiling, while a young couple the girl in a ball dress, the man stripped to the waist in waders are frantically changing light bulbs through a street window at the back a policeman spies on this domestic scene in a posture of frozen astonishmentYou see the author at full stretch when Mother lies prone on an ironing board under a basket of fruit suspended from the ceiling, while a young couple the girl in a ball dress, the man...

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The Laramie Project By Moisés Kaufman

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Title	:	The Laramie Project
Author	:	Moisés Kaufman
ISBN	:	0375727191
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	110

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For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Mois s Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project whose previous play, Gross Indecency, was hailed as a work of unsurpassed originality conducted hundreds of interviews with the citizens of Laramie, Wyoming, to create this portrait of a town struggling with a horrific event.The savage killing of Shepard, a young For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Mois s Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project whose previous play, Gro...

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Three Plays By John Webster

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Title	:	Three Plays
Author	:	John Webster
ISBN	:	0140430814
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	464

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The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth century English theatre The White Devil depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue and murderous infidelity, while The Duchess of Malfi tells the macabre story of a woman who marries beneath herself and sets in motion a terrible cycle of violence Unlike these revenge tragedi The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth century English theatre The White Devil depicts...

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The Cripple of Inishmaan By Martin McDonagh

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Title	:	The Cripple of Inishmaan
Author	:	Martin McDonagh
ISBN	:	0375705236
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	128

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In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary No one is excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank And as ne In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary ...

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Five Jacobean Tragedies By Thomas Middleton

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Title	:	Five Jacobean Tragedies
Author	:	Thomas Middleton
ISBN	:	1840221062
Format	:	Unknown Binding
Number of Pages	:	528

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Haunted by the dance of death , these plays contain powerful critiques of existing inequalities A common theme throughout is the powerful woman who is than a match for the men who try to silence her....

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Suddenly Last Summer By Tennessee Williams

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Title	:	Suddenly Last Summer
Author	:	Tennessee Williams
ISBN	:	0822210940
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	45

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Kerr, in the NY Herald Tribune, describes This, says Mr Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, is a true story about the time and the world we live in He has made it seem true or at least curiously and suspensefully possible by the extraordinary skill with which he has wrung detail after detail out of a young woman who has lived with horror Kerr, in the NY Herald Tribune, describes This, says Mr Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, is a tru...

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Henry IV, Part 2 By William Shakespeare

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Title	:	Henry IV, Part 2
Author	:	William Shakespeare
ISBN	:	014071457X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	176

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I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A R I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket Convenience, however, is the l...

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The Duchess of Malfi By John Webster

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Title	:	The Duchess of Malfi
Author	:	John Webster
ISBN	:	0719016088
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	220

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One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi 1614 adapts the true story of a noble Italian widow who secretly marries her steward and has children with him Her two brothers, enraged by this act of female self determination, begin to spy on the happy family, entrap them and subject their sister to fiendish psychological torture

One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi 1614 adapts the true story of a noble It...

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The Misanthrope/ Tartuffe By Molière

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Title	:	The Misanthrope/ Tartuffe
Author	:	Molière
ISBN	:	0156605171
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	336

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Critics have heralded Richard Wilbur s translations of Moli re s seventeenth century dramas as masterpieces In brilliant rhymed couplets Wilbur renders into English not only the form and spirit of Moli re s language but also its substance The Misanthrope, one of Moli re s most popular plays, is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self righteousness The m Critics have heralded Richard Wilbur s translations of Moli re s seventeenth century dramas as masterpieces In brillian...

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The Dumb Waiter By Harold Pinter

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Title	:	The Dumb Waiter
Author	:	Harold Pinter
ISBN	:	0573042101
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	175

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One of Harold Pinter s comedies of menace, this 1957 play is about two hit men getting ready for their next job....

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The Vortex By Noël Coward

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Title	:	The Vortex
Author	:	Noël Coward
ISBN	:	0413773094
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	96

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A single volume edition of Noel Coward s famous play, published to tie in with major Donmar Warehouse production in December 2002.In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of those Bright Young Things, c 1923 Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and immoral relationships are observed in this early, once scandalous work from the playwright actor, which made Coward a star A single volume edition of Noel Coward s famous play, published to tie in with major Donmar Warehouse production in December 2002....

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An Ideal Husband By Oscar Wilde

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Title	:	An Ideal Husband
Author	:	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	:	0140287957
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	144

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A dazzling blend of farce and morality, An Ideal Husband explores human frailty and social hypocrisy Sir Robert Chilton s secret is discovered and exposed he is accused of having exploited government secrets for his own gain early in his political career With this revelation from Mrs Cheveley comes the threat of blackmail and the ruin of Sir Robert s career Yet in ord A dazzling blend of farce and morality, An Ideal Husband explores human frailty and social hypocrisy Sir Robert Chilton s secret is discove...

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Back to Methuselah By George Bernard Shaw

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Title	:	Back to Methuselah
Author	:	George Bernard Shaw
ISBN	:	0140450149
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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Back to Methuselah A Metabiological Pentateuch is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw The five plays are In the Beginning B.C 4004 In the Garden of Eden The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas Present Day The Thing Happens A.D 2170 Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman A.D 3000 As Far as Thought Can Reach A.D 31,920The plays were publis Back to Methuselah A Metabiological Pentateuch is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw The five plays are In the Beginning B...

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee

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Title	:	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Author	:	Edward Albee
ISBN	:	0451158717
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	257

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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 unbeara 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, audienc...

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Amphitryon By Molière

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Title	:	Amphitryon
Author	:	Molière
ISBN	:	0156002116
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	96

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Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Moli re play populated with Greeks and Greco Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan tasy, high comedy, farce, and even opera Afterword by Richard Wilbur....

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Sir Thomas More By Anthony Munday

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Title	:	Sir Thomas More
Author	:	Anthony Munday
ISBN	:	0719016320
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	272

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This modern spelling critical edition of a famous and controversial theatrical document from the Elizabethan age shows that Sir Thomas More is the best extant example of the genre of biographical history Following a radical re examination of the manuscript, this edition relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form, accounting in the collat This modern spelling critical edition of a famous and controversial theatrical document from the Elizabethan age shows that S...

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An Education By Nick Hornby

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Title	:	An Education
Author	:	Nick Hornby
ISBN	:	1594484538
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	193

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From the New York Times bestselling author the shooting script to his award winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie Jenny is a 16 year old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence she can t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor wh From the New York Times bestselling author the shooting script to his award winning film, with an original Introdu...

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