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Tom Stoppard (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

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Price: $4.95

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications: June 2000

Seller ID: 119680

ISBN: 0877546711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
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Christopher Marlowe (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

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Price: $4.95

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications: June 2000

Seller ID: 119717

ISBN: 0877546665

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling (Oxford World's Classics)

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Price: $4.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: November 1999

Seller ID: 318451

ISBN: 0192837109

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The York Corpus Christi cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection of twenty-two pageants offered in this volume. Included are plays on the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ, and the Last Judgement. The Passion sequence has been expanded by six of the eight plays generally attributed to the great poetic dramatist known as the York realist; this is the only edition of these works available in paperback, and the only volume to offer modern spelling throughout. Including det...
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Three English Comedies

By: A. B. de Mille

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Boston: January 1961

Seller ID: 253375

ISBN: B001P2C5NM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Habit of Art

By: Alan Bennett

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Faber & Faber-: January 2010

Seller ID: 175761

ISBN: 0571255612

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theater as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on...
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Fashion (Dodo Press)

By: Anna Cora Mowatt

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dodo Press: October 2008

Seller ID: 326584

ISBN: 1409948757

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (1819-1870) was an American author, playwright, public reader, and actress. Her first book, Pelay; or, The Cavern of Covadonga, was published in 1836, then Reviewers Reviewed in 1837. She also wrote articles which were published in The Ladiesa Companion and Sargentas Magazine. She wrote a six act play, Gulzara, which was published in The New World. She wrote two novels: The Fortune Hunter (1844) and Evelyn (1845) using the pseudonym aHelen Berkleya. In 1841, due to financial problems, she became a public reader. In 1845, her best known work, the play Fashion was publis...
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J.B.: A Play in Verse

By: Archibald MacLeish

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: August 1989

Seller ID: 150093

ISBN: 0395083532

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

J.B.: A Play in Verse

By: Archibald MacLeish

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: August 1989

Seller ID: 310270

ISBN: 0395083532

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Crucible (Penguin Plays)

By: Arthur Miller

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: October 1976

Seller ID: 337475

ISBN: 0140481389

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft--and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and ...
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

By: Arthur Miller, Harold Bloom

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications: January 1988

Seller ID: 216092

ISBN: 1555460615

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
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Miss Julie and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

By: August Strindberg

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: February 1999

Seller ID: 321620

ISBN: 0192833170

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898, A Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata, and The Dance of Death. Michael Robinson's highly performable translations are based on the authoritative texts of the new edition of Strindberg's collected works in Sweden and include the Preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg's manifesto of theatrical naturalism.
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The Devil Is an Ass: And Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Ben Jonson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May 2001

Seller ID: 278746

ISBN: 0198132298

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A quintesstential selection of the dramatic work of Ben Jonson, this edition features the plays Poetaster, Sejanus, The Devil is An Ass, and New Inn. Jonson's work is renowned for its wit and biting religions and social commentary these four plays are no exception. The plays featured in this edition have been freshly edited from the earliest printed texts. The introduction focuses on the interaction between poet and state authority, and the need for new productions of these rarely performed classics from our dramatic heritage.
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Five Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Ben Jonson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 1999

Seller ID: 278748

ISBN: 0192839446

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This fully annotated and modernized collection of plays--including Every Man in his Humour, Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair--represents the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright.
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