Faust (Part 2) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Read by); David Constantine (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator); A. S. Byatt (Preface by)
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Category: Plays | Series: Faust Ser.
Der 1749 in Frankfurt am Main geborene Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gilt als bedeutendster deutscher Dichter. Seine Werke gehören zu den wichtigsten der Weltliteratur."Faust" ist ein Meisterwerk. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Pakt mit dem Teufel. Der zentrale Konflikt rankt sich um die Frage nach der Wahrheit ...Show more
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri (Editor)
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Category: Plays
Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 extracts from Shakespeare's plays and poems. Each page of this unique book features an extract - which might be a famous poem, quote or scene - matched to the date it sits on - and an introductory paragraph which gives readers a n ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
Referred to by superstitious actors as 'the Scottish play', William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragedy in which appalling earthly crimes have lasting supernatural repercussions. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by George Hunter with an introduction by Carol Rutter. 'By the pricking of my thumb ...Show more
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Plays
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to b ...Show more
Henry V: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
Among the most well-loved of William Shakespeare's history plays, Henry V is the gripping conclusion to the story of young 'Prince Hal' begun in Henry IV, edited by A R Humphreys with an introduction by Ann Kaegi. 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more
Othello by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
Othello William Shakespeare Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and ...Show more
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
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Category: Plays
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. "The Persians", the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of t ...Show more
Electra and other Plays by Sophocles
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Category: Plays
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her fath ...Show more
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Revised and Complete Edition by Tony Kusher
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Category: Plays
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika This new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the twent ...Show more
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
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Category: Plays | Series: Classics Ser.
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more