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    'night, Mother : A Play (Mermaid Dramabook)
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    by Hill and Wang
    Paperback (01 August, 1983)
    (7 reviews) 4.86 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Sweet Dreams: Michael Russo This play only has two characters, has one main plot, one setting, and is one conversation. One might think that this play,
    13 By Shanley: Collected Plays (Applause American Masters Series)
    list: $16.95 - our price: $11.53
    by Applause Books
    Paperback (01 January, 1992)
    (2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Shanley goes where others fear to tread...: If you've ever been involved in a relationship that gets deep, personal and reveals a you you never knew existed..

    24 Favorite One Act Plays
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    by Main Street Books
    Paperback (15 May, 1963)
    (2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Really Useful: I've had this book thrust upon me as a student over the past 7 years in middle and high school from Drama, English and Language teachers.
    5 Christmas Plays for Children
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    by Abingdon Press
    Paperback (01 August, 2000)

    A Dictionary of Who, What, and Where in Shakespeare
    list: $12.95 - our price: $9.71
    by McGraw-Hill
    Paperback (11 January, 1997)
    (2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Very Pleasant Surprise: For someone who needed a reintroduction to Shakespeare after more than forty years absence, this book proved to be a very pleasant surprise.
    A Doll's House
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    by Dover Publications
    Paperback (21 February, 1992)
    (58 reviews) 3.95 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A brilliant play on Marrige, Supression and Feminisme.: Henrik Ibsen in one of the most famous Norwegian writers thoughout the world.

    A History of Russian Theatre
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    by Cambridge University Press
    Hardcover (30 September, 1999)
    A Man for All Seasons (Vintage International)
    list: $9.50 - our price: $8.55
    by Vintage
    Paperback (14 April, 1990)
    (39 reviews) 4.21 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: THIS PLAY IS IN THE SAME LEAGUE AS SHAKESPEARE: A short book. And well worth the effort to read.Tells the story of Thomas More, who loved King Henry, but who loved God most.

    A Midsommer Night's Dream (Applause Shakespeare Library Folio Texts)
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    by Applause
    Paperback (01 October, 1997)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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    by Washington Square Press
    Paperback (01 January, 2004)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pelican Shakespeare)
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    by Penguin Books
    Paperback (01 August, 2000)
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Made Easy)
    list: $6.95 - our price: $6.26
    by Barron's Educational Series
    Paperback (01 February, 1985)
    (5 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Great Translation that Makes Shakespeare More Accessable: I purchased many titles in the "Shakespeare Made Easy" series. It has a modern English translation side by side with the original text.

    A Raisin in the Sun
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    by Vintage
    Paperback (29 November, 1994)
    (116 reviews) 4.15 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Great Book: Recently, in my eighth grade English class, we read To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. During our study of the 1930's in Alabama we were assigned to read another book by an African American author.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
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    by Signet Book
    Mass Market Paperback (01 August, 1989)
    (71 reviews) 4.38 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: interesting but stereotypical: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is a play about class and gender, and how they interact in a specific time period and place,

    Act One : An Autobiography
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    by St. Martin's Griffin
    Paperback (15 October, 1989)
    (13 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Moss Hart was in the thick of American theater when everyone wore black tie on opening night and the world's most witty people entertained each other around a grand piano at late-night supper parties. It's an era of glamour that will never come again,
    Aeschylus I: Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)
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    by University of Chicago Press
    Paperback (15 May, 1969)
    (7 reviews) 4.57 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: The Greatest of Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus I (the Oresteia) probably best epitomized Greek tragedy. This compelling trilogy told the stories of endless cycles of violence in the House of Atreus that stretched across generations and only ended when peace and harmony took its place.I

    All in the Timing : Fourteen Plays
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    by Vintage
    Paperback (08 November, 1994)
    (33 reviews) 4.58 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Taking the English Language to an Art Form: In these days of cookie-cutter plays, where an intellectual evening is watching David Copperfield making his career disappear,
    All My Sons
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    by Dramatists Play Service Inc
    Paperback (01 June, 1999)
    (28 reviews) 4.18 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: a family tragedy: All in all, the book is quite interesting. We give the story four stars, because we liked especially the end of it.

    An Ideal Husband (Dover Thrift Editions)
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    by Dover Publications
    Paperback (05 February, 2001)
    (11 reviews) 4.82 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: *An Ideal Husband* is more than an apparent oxymoron: Wilde, in part, attempts to portray the relativity of truth, power, and character,
    Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes : Perestroika (Angels in America
    list: $11.95 - our price: $9.56
    by Theatre Communications Group
    Paperback (01 January, 1994)
    (13 reviews) 4.46 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Angels in America is one of the most realistic books written: As soon as I began to read Kushner's Angels in America, I didn't like it.

    Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Angels in America)
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    by Theatre Communications Group
    Paperback (01 April, 1993)
    (32 reviews) 4.31 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Interesting insight into the lives of homosexuals: When I first started to read Angels in America, I wasn't quite sure of what to expect.
    Angels in America:A Gay Fantasia on National Themes : Part One: Millennium Approaches
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    by Theatre Communications Group
    Paperback (01 November, 2003)
    (35 reviews) 4.29 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A triumphant landmark of the U.S. theater: Tony Kushner's two part epic play "Angels in America" istruly a landmark of United States literature.

    Anna in the Tropics
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    by Theatre Communications Group
    Paperback (01 September, 2003)
    (7 reviews) 3.29 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: All plays are meant to be seen, not read.: There is a review here about this play being better to see than to read. This should be true of all plays,
    Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions)
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    by Dover Publications
    Paperback (12 October, 1993)
    (36 reviews) 3.61 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Antigone-Its pronounced Ant-ig-oh-nee!: I think that reading this book would be a positive experience for anyone who can understand it.

    Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics)
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    by Oxford University Press
    Paperback (01 August, 1998)
    (4 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: great translation: As a Classics major, I've had to read these plays countless times. Last semester, I picked up this book while writing a paper on Electra,
    Anton Chekhov's Plays (A Norton Critical Edition)
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    by W. W. Norton & Company
    Paperback (01 November, 1977)
    (2 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Notable Collection: Though this is not the fullest collection of Chekhov's work, it offers wonderful criticism and discussion on four of his greatest plays.

    Approaching the Millennium : Essays on Angels in America (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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    by University of Michigan Press
    Paperback (15 January, 1998)
    (1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Very insightful work on very insightful work.: In my opinion, "Angels in America" is the greatest American play of all time. The blend of realism,
    Arcadia
    list: $13.00 - our price: $9.75
    by Faber & Faber
    Paperback (01 September, 1994)
    (36 reviews) 4.61 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Wonderful and important dramatic work.: I've been trying to get away from the sort of highbrow self-referential philosophical literature that one thinks of when they hear the name Stoppard,

    Arsenic and Old Lace
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    by Dramatists Play Service Inc
    Paperback (01 June, 1995)
    (6 reviews) 4.83 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Two Aunts, Theodore Roosevelt, and Poison.: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is one of the classics of American theatre. It's a fast-paced play that has some great witty dialogue and unforgettable scenes.
    Art
    list: $13.00 - our price: $9.75
    by Faber & Faber
    Paperback (06 March, 1997)
    (10 reviews) 4.1 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: How would you feel about your best friend if she suddenly did something so colossally stupid, it made you doubt the very basis of the friendship? It happens in Yasmina Reza's monster international hit, Art.

    As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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    by Washington Square Press
    Paperback (01 July, 2004)
    Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare : A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of
    list: $24.99 - our price: $15.74
    by Gramercy
    Hardcover (02 September, 2003)
    (20 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: You Thought You Knew Shakespeare?: I thought I was pretty familiar with Shakespeare when I picked up Asimov's guide. I thought I had a strong grasp on most of his plays.

    Bash: 3 Plays
    list: $14.95 - our price: $10.17
    by Overlook Press
    Paperback (01 January, 2000)
    (6 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: "Latterday Greek Tragedies": Labute in these three vignettes is remarkably daring, but in ways that in critical discussion are generally ignored.
    Blood Brothers (Methuen Modern Plays)
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    by Methuen
    Paperback (01 September, 2001)
    (4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Unforgettable, moving and haunting: I saw the London stage version of "Blood Brothers" last summer and left the Adelphi Theater completely and satisfyingly exhausted from the emotions that the story wrung out of me.

    Blood Wedding : A Play
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    by Faber & Faber
    Paperback (06 February, 1997)
    (3 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Blood Wedding: This is going to short, but I found the play below standards set by the author. There is weak imagery combined by poor,
    Boy Gets Girl : A Play
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    by Faber & Faber
    Paperback (29 May, 2000)
    (6 reviews) 3.83 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: OVERRATED??: I read this play in a theater class in college. I cannot understand how anyone can say that this play is overrated!

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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    by Signet Book
    Mass Market Paperback (01 September, 1989)
    (21 reviews) 4.43 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: An emotional and gripping family drama: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is Tennessee William's highly-acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning play that stands on equal footing with the best American dramas ever written.
    Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler
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    by Grove Press
    Paperback (01 March, 1996)
    (3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: You never know how writing for the stage will translate to the page, but the five performance pieces in "Clit Notes" make the move remarkably well. Perhaps because Holly Hughes is a brilliant writer, which you will discover when you read this incredible collection.

    Closer
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    by Atlantic Monthly Press
    Paperback (19 November, 1999)
    (8 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: The Closer you look, the stranger they are: Strange things are the human beings. Come to think of them. We are never happy with what we have-- we always want more,
    Collected Shorter Plays
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    by Grove Press
    Paperback (01 September, 1984)
    (5 reviews) 4.2 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Extraordinary, but to be taken in doses.: Some advice: although this book contains some of the most astonishing plays ever written,

    Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950
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    by Harcourt
    Hardcover (20 November, 1952)
    (10 reviews) 4.9 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Eliot's poetry ranges from the massively magisterial( The Waste Land), to the playfully pleasant (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). This volume of Eliot's poetry and plays offers the complete text of these and most all of Eliot's poetry,i
    Complete Works: One : The Birthday Party/the Room/the Dumb Waiter/a Slight Ache/a
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    by Grove/Atlantic
    Paperback (01 November, 1990)
    (8 reviews) 4.12 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: PROLIFIC PLAYWRIGHT WORTH READING.: Harold Pinter is arguably one of the most important playwrights to come out of England in the past 100 years.

    Copenhagen
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    by Anchor
    Paperback (08 August, 2000)
    (25 reviews) 4.36 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Brilliant Exploration of the Uncertainty of Human Motives: In September, 1941, Werner Heisenberg, then leading Nazi Germany's war-time effort to exploit the uses of nuclear fission,
    Cyrano De Bergerac (Bantam Classics)
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    by Bantam Classics
    Mass Market Paperback (01 November, 1950)
    (23 reviews) 4.7 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: One of the greatest plays ever written: Edmond Rostand's masterpiece, Cyrano de Bergerac, is one of the greatest plays ever written.

    Cyrano de Bergerac (Dover Thrift Editions)
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    by Dover Publications
    Paperback (24 May, 2000)
    (33 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Charming, amusing love story: The play in which Steve Martin's "Roxanne" was based on is "Cyrano de Bergerac", a French play by Edmond Rostand.
    Death of A Salesman
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    by Penguin USA (Paper)
    Paperback (06 October, 1998)
    (139 reviews) 3.9 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: great story, but requires much patience: This is, without a doubt, an outstanding piece of literature, beautifully written and well executed by author Arthur Miller.

    Democracy : A Play
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    by Faber & Faber
    Paperback (15 December, 2004)
    Dr. Faustus (Dover Thrift Editions)
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    by Dover Publications
    Paperback (20 October, 1994)
    (18 reviews) 4.61 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: The Best Retelling of the Faust Legend: In the Faust legend, a man by the name of Faust or Faustus sells his soul to the devil for twenty-four years of worldly power.

    English Renaissance Drama
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    by W. W. Norton & Company
    Hardcover (18 July, 2002)
    (1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Some great plays here: This is an excellent selection of plays from authors contemporary to Shakespeare. There are some real masterpieces here,
    Equus (Penguin Plays)
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    by Penguin Books
    Paperback (01 October, 1984)
    (32 reviews) 4.72 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: ...comments on Equus: I enjoyed this play very much and have read it several times. Each time I read the play I grasp a better understanding of what Shaffer may be conveying to the audience.

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