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Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuk...

One Of The First Russian Writers To Make A Name For Herself On The Internet, Linor Goralik Writes Conversational Short Works That Conjure The Absurd In All ...

A Seminal Work Of Twentieth-century Drama, Waiting For Godot Was Samuel Beckett's First Professionally Produced Play. It Opened In Paris In 1953 At The Tiny...

End your struggle with the Bard’s prose and enjoy a timeless thriller filled with passion, prejudice, insane jealousy, murder, and suicide. Shakespeare on...

the Most Poetic And Magical Of Shakespeare's Comedies, This Play Contrasts Lyrical Fantasy Surrounding The Spirit Ariel And The Savage Calaban, With A Tale ...

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways ...

Book by Shakespeare, WilliamCategories: Literature & Fiction Dramas & PlaysShakespeare

These guides are a series of commentaries compiled as companions to the plays of the 20th century's leading dramatists. Each text covers several plays and g...

Among the most popular of Shakespeare's comedies, this enchanting play humorously celebrates the vagaries of love as it focuses upon the intertwined romanc...

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...

The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has ...

From Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a 200-year-old Bla...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racia...

Shakespeare everyone can understand—now in new DELUXE editions!\Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line trans...

This edition of Romeo and Juliet is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background informat...

the oxford School Shakespeare Has Become The Preferred Introduction To The Literary Legacy Of The Greatest Playwright In The English Language. This Exclus...

Edited by the eminent A.R. Braunmuller, this thorough edition of King John--the first scholarly edition in almost fifteen years--makes a significant contrib...

Offering a user-friendly, beautifully illustrated guide to every play in the Shakespeare canon, as well as a portrait of the Bard's life and the world of El...

Shirley Valentine, 42-year-old put-upon mother and housewife, leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. T...

“Moving and thought-provoking and informative and imaginative and beautifully executed. What a wonderful story!”—Mary Jane Clark “This book is a m...

The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, wit...

From the author of the "full-throttle thriller" (A. J. Finn) No Exit--a riveting new psychological page-turner featuring a fierce and unforgettable heroin...

Stephen Greenblatt Has Been At The Center Of A Major Shift In Literary Interpretation Toward A Critical Method That Situates Cultural Creation In History. S...

East -- West -- Greek -- Sink The Belgrano! -- Massage -- Lunch -- Decadence -- Kvetch -- Acapulco -- Harry's Christmas -- Brighton Beach Scumbags -- Dahlin...

This vibrant, complete Shakespeare brings readers closer than ever before to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. Based on the freshly edited texts...

despite The Reshifting Of Values That Has Affected Every Aspect Of Life In The 21st Century, William Shakespeare Still Stands As The Greatest Writer The E...

It’s a splendid moon-filled night at Coley’s Point in August, 1926. Eighteen-year-old Jacob Mercer has returned from Toronto to the tiny Newfoundland o...