The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles; Fagles (trans)
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Category: Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
The Crucible (Methuen Student ed.) by Arthur Soyica Diggs; Miller Colbert
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Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions Ser.
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!In a small tight-knit community, gossip and rumour spread like ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
Shakespeare's First Folio Journal by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama
The First Folio – the celebrated collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays – was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death. It was compiled by John Heminge and Henry Condell, both actors in Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, and originally titled Mr. William Shakespeares Comedi ...Show more
Richard III by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama
A history play whose villainous usurper is one of William Shakespeare's most memorably cunning and sinister characters, Richard III is edited by E.A.J. Honigmann with an introduction by Michael Taylor in Penguin Shakespeare. 'Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York' ...Show more
Selected Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Drama
Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful delight in appearing to tr ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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This is a raucous comedy that thrusts a quartet of reckless young lovers headfirst into a world of magic and fantasy, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is edited by Stanley Wells with an introduction by Helen Hackett in Penguin Shakespeare. "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, suc ...Show more
Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, the Children of Heracles, Hippolytus by Euripides; Anne Carson; R. F. Willetts; Glenn W. Most (Editor, Translator); Richmond Lattimore (Translator, Editor); Richmond Alexander Lattimore (Translator); Oliver Taplin; Mark Griffith (Editor, Translator); David Grene (Translator, Editor); Deborah H. Roberts; William Arrowsmith; Frank William Oliver Jones; Emily Vermeule
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Category: Drama | Series: Complete Greek Tragedies Ser.
Euripides I contains the plays "Alcestis," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Medea," translated by Oliver Taplin; "The Children of Heracles," translated by Mark Griffith; and "Hippolytus," translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new ...Show more
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama
Perhaps the single most influential work of English drama, William Shakespeares Hamlet is a timeless tragedy of the conflicted loyalties, madness, betrayal and terrible revenge. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by TJB Spencer with an introduction by Alan Sinfield. 'To be or not to be - that is ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama
The greatest love story in English, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play of star-crossed lovers who take a valiant stand against social convention, with tragic consequences. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with notes by T.J.B. Spencer, and an introduction by Adrian Poole. 'What's ...Show more
Mahabharata by Ravi Jain; Miriam Fernandes
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Category: Drama | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A contemporary dramatic take on a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic that is foundational to Indian culture. Why Not Theatre's large-scale, once-in-a-generation retelling of Mahabharata brings together a cast of performers entirely from the South Asian diaspora, blending cultures and art forms in a spectacul ...Show more
Forty Years on by Alan Bennett
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Category: Drama
"Alan Bennett's most gloriously funny play ...a brilliant, youthful perception of a nation in decline, as seen through the eyes of a home-grown school play ...a classic". (Daily Mail).