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California

The Taming of the Shrew (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Tom Stoppard

New York

Arcadia is a brilliantly inventive play that moves back and forth between centuries, populated by a varied and vastly entertaining cast of characters who discuss such topics as the nature of truth and time, the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life-according to the author, "the attraction which Newton left out.

Arcadia

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William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well is the story of its heroine, Helen, more so than the story of Bertram, for whose love she yearns. Helen wins Bertram as her husband despite his lack of interest and higher social standing, but she finds little happiness in the victory as he shuns, deserts, and attempts to betray her. The play suggests some sympathy for Bertram. As a ward to the French king, he must remain at court while his friends go off to war and glory. When Helen cures the King, he makes Bertram available to her. To exert any control over his life, Bertram goes to war in Italy. Helen then takes the initiative in furthering their marriage, undertaking an arduous journey and a daring trick. Few today, however, see a fairy-tale ending. The authoritative edition of All's Well That Ends Well from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading Essay by David McCandless The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

All's Well That Ends Well

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Aristophanes

Douglass Parker

Judith Fletcher

Rhode Island

In Aristophanes? most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until they stop fighting. And the battle of the sexes begins?

Lysistrata

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Charise Castro Smith

Texas

Home-sweet-home turns into a haunted house for thirteen-year-old Chris when Carol—her father’s new fiancée—moves in. Struggling with the recent death of her mother, Chris is convinced Carol is evil, but she just can’t persuade Dad. When a mysterious, potentially dangerous but kind of cute creature is found in the family’s backyard, Chris assumes it’s a sign from above to eliminate Carol once and for all. This imaginative, bone-chilling, and wildly funny play brings the notion of dysfunctional family drama to sensationally scary heights.

Feathers and Teeth

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William Gibson

Alabama

A text of the television play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan Macy's attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.

The Miracle Worker

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)

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Bob Dylan

Conor McPherson

Oregon

A thrilling blend of McPherson's text and Dylan's iconic songs.

Girl from the North Country

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#paperback #hamlet #shakespeare #play #classic

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

Lightly annotated

Far more than just a copy of the play, this text includes commentary, informative notes, and production notes for Hamlet.

Hamlet

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Jim Bonner

New Jersey

The Greek veteran, Diomedes, is confronted outside the Italian city-state of Lavinium, which the surviving Trojan people built after Diomedes besieged and burned their home. King Aeneas and his two sons must decide what to do with the figure from their past as tension in Lavinium reach a boiling point. The fate of their captive, their city, and grand divine plans hang in the balance of their values on Diomedes, who has secrets and motives of his own . . .Featuring many characters from Mediterranean mythology, 'Interbellum' sets and populates the stage to scrutinize issues of identity, purpose, and motivation through the context of classical, Bronze Age tragedies. The woes of the Western World are thoroughly questioned and evaluated in a stark departure from conventional narratives and normative values.

Interbellum

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Marisa Smith

Kentucky

The Complete One Act Plays

EST Marathon '95

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One-Act Plays

EST Marathon '94

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The Best of 1994

Six plays produced in 1993 by six different authors.

Women Playwrights

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The Complete Plays

Humana Festival '94

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Sophocles

Bernard Knox

Tight, square book with mild edge wear and page tanning, smoke free #greek #oedipus #classics #play #sophocles #tragedy #drama #paperback 

Virginia

Oedipus the King

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Tennessee Williams

THE STORY: Serafina delle Rose is a restless widow whose intense and absorbing instinct for love drives everything before it. The figure of this extraordinary woman dominates the small town where she and her friends are living and embodies the exul

The Rose Tattoo

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David Auburn

Connecticut

A Play

Reissued to coincide with the release of the film version which stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal

Proof

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#peterpan #retellimg #play #script A play about Wendy and the Lost Boys when they come back from Neverland 

Long after returning from Neverland, Wendy decides that she must find Peter in order to reclaim her kiss and move on with her life. Along the way, she meets other girls who went to Neverland and learns she is not alone. A coming-of-age exploration of first love and lasting loss, Lost Girl continues the story of J.M. Barrie's beloved character - the girl who had to grow up.

Lost Girl

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Lisa A. Barnett

Melissa Scott

The city of Astreiant has gone crazy with enthusiasm for a new play, ''The Drowned Island,'' a lurid farrago of melodrama and innuendo. Pointsman Nicolas Rathe is not amused, however, at a real dead body on stage and must investigate. A string of murders follow, perhaps related to the politically important masque that is to play on that same stage. Rathe must once again recruit the help of his lover, former soldier Philip Eslingen, whose knowledge of actors and the stage, and of the depths of human perversity and violence, blends well with Rathe's own hard-won experience with human greed and magical mayhem.

Their task is complicated by the season, for it is the time of year when the spirits of the dead haunt the city and influence everyone, and also by the change in their relationship when the loss of Philip's job forces him to move in with Nicolas. Mystery, political intrigue, floral magic, astrology, and romance--both theatrical and personal-- combine to make this a compelling read. 

A winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Speculative Fiction

Paperback book in excellent condition with the exception of a black marker line on the bottom outer pages that do not affect the inside pages

Maryland

"This sequel to Point of Hopes is set in the same detailed, late-Renaissance world where magic works, where astrologers and necromancers are the pundits and powerbrokers. Once again it features Pointsman Nicolas Rathe, who functions as a sort of policeman and who ends up with a magical mystery to solve."--Jacket.

Point of Dreams

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J. K. Rowling

Jack Thorne

John Tiffany

This is the Special Rehearsal Edition of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne. 

⚜️ The top of the dust jacket has some basic shelf wear and wrinkles
⚜️ The side edges of the pages have some slight markings
⚜️ Comes from a smoke-free home with one cat

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Illinois

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Pennsylvania

#paperback #actors #acting #fiction #drama #macbeth #learning #play 

One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt, and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland, in order to succeed him on the throne. This foul deed soon entangles the conscience-stricken nobleman in a web of treachery, deceit, and more murders, which ultimately spells his doom. Set amid the gloomy castles and lonely heaths of medieval Scotland, Macbeth paints a striking dramatic portrait of a man of honor and integrity destroyed by a fatal character flaw and the tortures of a guilty imagination.
A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

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The Taming of the Shrew (No Fear Shakespeare)

Tom Stoppard

Arcadia

Tom Stoppard

Arcadia

William Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well

Aristophanes; Douglass Parker; Judith Fletcher

Lysistrata

Charise Castro Smith

Feathers and Teeth

William Gibson

The Miracle Worker

J. K. Rowling; Jack Thorne; John Tiffany

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)

Bob Dylan; Conor McPherson

Girl from the North Country

William Shakespeare; Jeff Dolven (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Introduction by)

Hamlet

Jim Bonner

Interbellum

Marisa Smith

EST Marathon '95

Marisa Smith

EST Marathon '94

Marisa Smith

Women Playwrights

Marisa Smith

Humana Festival '94

Sophocles

Oedipus the King

Tennessee Williams

The Rose Tattoo

David Auburn

Proof

KIMBERLY BELFLOWER

Lost Girl

Lisa A. Barnett; Melissa Scott

Point of Dreams

J. K. Rowling; Jack Thorne; John Tiffany

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)

J. K. Rowling; Jack Thorne; John Tiffany

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)

J. K. Rowling; Jack Thorne; John Tiffany

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Macbeth