Three Uneasy Pieces by Patrick White
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Category: Plays
Addresses the problem of growing old and the 'warts of the soul' which, if gouged out, ruin the flesh. Presenting a peeled potato, a dance in the kitchen and a visit to the aged mother of a childhood friend, this book considers our struggle, our efforts to achieve aesthetic perfection and suggests some ...Show more
Death of a Salesman (Play) by Arthur Claire; Miller Conceison
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Category: Plays | Series: Student Editions Ser.
Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be - when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted, driven and yet held back by empty dreams of prosperity and success. Justly celebrated as one of the most famous dramat ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Plays | Series: Wordsworth classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material ...Show more
A Doll's House And Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Plays
Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is 'first and foremost a human being', Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when she appeared in Ibsen's greatest and most famous play, A Doll's House. Depicting ...Show more
Women of Troy by Euripides
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Category: Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...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