A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.00
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play...
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Inherit the Wind
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Format: Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $6.99
The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their...
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Romeo and Juliet
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $5.95
In a society dominated by religion and bound by ties of strict family loyalty, two teenagers are trapped by their secret love. As a dangerous vendetta spills onto the streets, the young lovers are forced to risk all to be together in Shakespeare’s fast-paced tragedy of thwarted love.
Under the editorial supervision...
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The Vagina Monologues
The V-Day Edition
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $12.95
A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of...
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.00
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.
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Inherit the Wind
Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $9.95
One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony Award®
Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony Award® Winner Doug Hughes
The accused was a...
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The Laramie Project
Written by Moises Kaufman
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.00
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the...
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A Man for All Seasons
Written by Robert Bolt
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $9.95
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII.
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Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for...
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Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $5.95
A continuation of the major series of individual Shakespeare plays from the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, edited by two brilliant, younger generation Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric RasmussenIncorporating definitive text and cutting-edge notes from
William Shakespeare: Complete Works-the first authoritative, modernized edition of Shakespeare's First Folio in more than...
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