Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker

3 plays

24 Favorite One-Act Plays

#hardcover #classic #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #homeschool #plays #englishliterature #livingbook #classicliterature #england 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Guild Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet and Titus Andronicus

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alaska

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, the 20th-century story pokes fun at the antiquated British class system.
In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork.
The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed.

Pygmalion

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Druidmurphy Plays By Tom Murphy

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Vermont

This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand's extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero--Cyrano De Bergerac--and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage.

This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.

Cyrano de Bergerac

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Massachusetts

bundle of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain and "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde

Referring to "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, " H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot called Huck "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet." The novel's preeminence derives from its wonderfully imaginative re-creation of boyhood adventures along the mighty Mississippi River, its inspired characterization, the author's remarkable ear for dialogue, and the book's understated development of serious underlying themes: "natural" man versus "civilized" society, the evils of slavery, the innate value and dignity of human beings, the stultifying effects of convention, and other topics. But most of all, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a wonderful story filled with high adventure and unforgettable characters (including the great river itself) that no one who has read it will ever forget. Unabridged Dover (1994) republication of the text of the first American edition, published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1885. New introductory Note."

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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#paperback #classic #barnesandnobleclassica #plays #bernardshaw

&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RMan and Superman and Three Other Plays&&L/I&&R, by &&LB&&RGeorge Bernard Shaw&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix]&&LI&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R: &&LDIV&&R
 * New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
 * Biographies of the authors
 * Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
 * Footnotes and endnotes
 * Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
 * Comments by other famous authors
 * Study questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectations
 * Bibliographies for further reading
 * Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/I&&Rpulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R &&L/DIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RAcclaimed as a "second Shakespeare," Irish-born &&LB&&RGeorge Bernard Shaw&&L/B&&R revolutionized the British theater. Although his plays focus on ideas and issues, they are enlivened by fascinating characters, a brilliant command of language, and dazzling wit. &&L/P&&R&&LP&&ROne of Shaw's finest and most devilish comedies, &&LI&&RMan and Superman &&L/I&&Rportrays Don Juan as the quarry instead of the huntsman. John Tanner, upon discovering that his beautiful ward plans to marry him, flees to the Sierra Nevada mountain range, where he is captured by a group of rebels. Tanner falls asleep, and dreams the famous "Don Juan in Hell" sequence, which features a sparkling Shavian debate among Don Juan, the Devil, and a talkative statue. With its fairy-tale ending and a cast literally from hell, &&LI&&RMan and Superman&&L/I&&R is a hilarious cocktail of farce, Nietzschean philosophy, and Mozart's &&LI&&RDon Giovanni&&L/I&&R. &&LP&&RAlso included in this volume are &&LI&&RCandida&&L/I&&R, Shaw's first real success on the stage, &&LI&&RMrs. Warren's Profession&&L/I&&R, which poked fun at the Victorian attitude toward prostitution, and &&LI&&RThe Devil's Disciple&&L/I&&R, a play set during the American Revolution.&&L/P&&R&&LP&&R&&LB&&RJohn A. Bertolini&&L/B&&R is Ellis Professor of the Liberal Arts at Middlebury College, where he teaches dramatic literature, Shakespeare, and film. He has written &&LI&&RThe Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw&&L/I&&R and articles on Hitchcock and on British and American dramatists. Bertolini also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Shaw's &&LI&&RPygmalion and Three Other Plays&&L/I&&R.&&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R

Man and Superman and Three Other Plays (Barnes and Noble Classics Series)

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#paperback #classic #annotated #school #plays #greekclassic #juliuscaesar

Maryland

Julius Caesar

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Alabama

Classic fiction. A book in the series, Collins Classics. A beautiful edition of your favourite classical stories.

Macbeth (Collins Classics)

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#hardcover #ourtown #plays #aplayinthreeacts #thorntonwilder #pulitzerprizewinning #classic 

A Play in Three Acts

This beautiful hardcover edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder's nephew, that includes Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become an American classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.

Our Town

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Excellent condition for a library discard, no noticeable wear and tear to the book. Interesting twisting story about Shakespeare plays in a sci-fi setting. 

New Hampshire

In a remote future age when the human enterprise has all but ground to a halt. a wandering troupe of players is dedicated to presenting the works of Shakespeare to every accessible corner of the settled universe. When aliens take an interest, the players find themselves giving command performances of King Lear, Hamlet and the Scottish play for a series of increasingly important alien species, with evidence that the fate of all humanity may rest on the quality of their work.

Muse of Fire

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Virginia

In less than one class period, students can easily finish short pieces that include traditional tales and myths of the Americas and the Caribbean, famous heroes and infamous villains like King Arthur and Jesse James, and original stories of incredible feats - many based on real-life disasters such as the Titanic and Hurricane Andrew.  Teaching support available.

Eight Plays of U.S. History

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#nonfiction #literarycriticism #hardcover #writing #Poetry #Fiction #Drama #theather #plays #Essays

Tennessee

The writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama

Three Genres

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And Related Readings

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

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Ohio

Art, music, drama/theater

Vintage Edition 

Sixteen Famous American Plays (Modern Library Giant, G21)

HC no dust jacket. Rubbing to corners, especially at top corner of spine 

California

Stories From Shakespeare. Six Dramatic Tales Retold for Children

#paperback #plays #theater. Light creasing to spine. 

Arizona

Five Plays

Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed plays--"The Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death," and "The Ghost Sonata"--are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.

Strindberg

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#paperback #poems #fiction #WilliamButlerYates, #poems. #plays #Romance. #Yates #Love. Box 62

Texas

Gathers poems from each period in Yeats' career, and plays, including "The Death of Cuchulain" and "Purgatory"

Selected Poems and Four Plays

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences?biographical, historical, and literary?to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Oscar Wilde's legendary wit dazzles in The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the greatest and most popular works of drama to emerge from Victorian England. A light-hearted satire of the absurdity of all forms and conventions, this comic masterpiece features an unforgettable cast of characters who, as critic Max Beerbohm observed, ?speak a kind of beautiful nonsense?the language of high comedy, twisted into fantasy.” This collection also includes Oscar Wilde's most famous comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, as well as his poetic tragedy Salomé?all written between 1891 and 1895, Wilde's most creative period. George Bernard Shaw said of Oscar Wilde that he is ?our most thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theater.” Kenneth Krauss received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He teaches drama at the College of Saint Rose, where he also directs and produces. His most recent book is The Drama of Fallen France, on French theater under the German Occupation.

The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays

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A play about a family of four psychologically disturbed people reveals aspects of the author's own life.

Long Day's Journey into Night

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#paperback #plays #historical there are a few pages with writing, not many. Good condition other than that. 

West Virginia

Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.

The Beggars Opera and Other Eighteenth Century Plays

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Minnesota

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power
today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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Montana

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text. Helpful background information that puts each play in its historical perspective. Discussion questions that teachers can use to spark student class participation, and which students can use as springboards for their own themes and term papers. Fact quizzes, sample examinations, and other features that improve student comprehension of what each play is about.

Thorton Wilder

3 plays

Bennett Cerf Editor

24 Favorite One-Act Plays

William Shakespeare

Guild Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet and Titus Andronicus

George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion

Tom Murphy

Druidmurphy Plays By Tom Murphy

Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

George Bernard Shaw; John A. Bertolini (Introduction by, Introductions and notes by)

Man and Superman and Three Other Plays (Barnes and Noble Classics Series)

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Macbeth (Collins Classics)

Thornton Wilder

Our Town

Dan Simmons

Muse of Fire

GLOBE

Eight Plays of U.S. History

Stephen Minot

Three Genres

McDougal-Littell Publishing Staff (Prepared for Publication by)

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

George S. Kaufman and 2 more

Sixteen Famous American Plays (Modern Library Giant, G21)

Retold by Nicola Baxter; illustrations by Jenny Thorne

Stories From Shakespeare. Six Dramatic Tales Retold for Children

August Strindberg; Harry G. Carlson (Translator, Introduction by)

Strindberg

M. L. Rosenthal (Editor); William Butler Yeats

Selected Poems and Four Plays

Oscar Wilde; Kenneth Krauss (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays

Eugene O'Neill; Harold Bloom (Foreword by)

Long Day's Journey into Night

John Gay; David W. Lindsay (Editor); Teresa Gallagher

The Beggars Opera and Other Eighteenth Century Plays

Oscar Wilde; Peter Raby (Editor)

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

William Shakespeare

Macbeth