Mr. Burns and Other Plays, Paperback

Reducere. Only seven plays of the Ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles have survived to today. Sophocles is best known for his trilogy of dramas known as the "T...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique...

Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit, this t...

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the cou...

Reducere. DescriptionFour plays and two essays on drama, written during Nabokov's migr years before his writings in English earned him worldwide fame. Transl...

Five plays written in the period 426 to 415 BC and haunted by the horrors of the fierce war between Athens and Sparta. Includes Trojan Women, Andro...

Contributor(s): Author: Ben JonsonIntroduction by: Michael JamiesonThe three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles o...

The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis,...

"The League of Youth" (1869) was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style. By 1879, Ibsen was convi...

Part of the Penguin Classics relaunch.

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and...

DescriptionAeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the pow...

Reducere. Selected early works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.Throughout his work, Doug Wright has often combined the personal, the social, and t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbu...

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simpl...

Reducere. Drama. Latino American Studies. Luis Valdez is a leading figure in Hispanic theater with outstanding achievements from a variety of venues from fla...

Reducere. "Pearl Cleage is a passionate, challenging playwright whose concerns for the species are unmistakable and profound. As a woman, as an African-Ameri...

DescriptionA collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in ...

Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wid...

Includes such dramas as "The Rose Tattoo", "Camino Real", and "Orpheus Descending".

Reducere. -Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. The Clean House shines.---New Haven Advocate...

Includes three plays - "Suddenly Last Summer", "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", and "Small Craft Warnings".

This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, Th...

Reducere. Five well known plays by well known playwright and screenwriter Josefina Lopez presented with a detailed introduction from Dr. Jorge A. Huerta. Rea...

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays,...

Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Thomas MiddletonNumber of pages: 528Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication date: 2009Dimension...

Reducere. For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this.--Athol FugardA dramatic, moving ...

William Wycherley's comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, and social criticism. This volume offers his complete dramatic w...

Includes three plays - "Sweet Bird of Youth", "Period of Adjustment", and "Period of Adjustment". In "Sweet Bird of Youth", Chance Wayne returns to...

Reducere. A collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's careerThe first full-length pla...

A collection of popular Willy Russell scripts, including Our Day Out, The Boy with the Transistor Radio, Terraces and I Read the News Today. Our Da...

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press LtdAuthor(s): Samuel SelvonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 1991Dimensions: 330 x 320 x 13Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. DescriptionInfluenced by Beckett, Genet, and Pinter, among others, Williams worked hard to expand the boundaries of the lyric realism he was best k...

Reducere. On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all ...

Reducere. When Sergei Tretyakov's ground-breaking play, I Want a Baby, was banned by Stalin's censor in 1927, it was a signal that the radical and innovative...

Includes the plays "The House of Bernarda Alba", "Yerma", and "Blood Wedding". These plays appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality.

A collection of plays including "Lucifer and the Lord", "Huis Clos", and "The Respectable Prostitute".

Reducere. Only one of these plays The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. Whether...

Publisher: Seagull Books London LtdAuthor(s): Santiago LozaIllustration(s): 50 halftonesTranslator: Samuel BuggelnNumber of pages: 252Collection: I...

Reducere. DescriptionCollected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles ...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus...

Surrealism, magic realism and expressionism are the hallmarks of Jose Rivera's influential body of work. This new volume collects the author's play...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies o...