Drama Books

Representing the largest expansion between editions this updated volume of Ott... Representing the largest expansion between editions this updated volume of Ottemiller s Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States... more

Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the... Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors-among them Patrick Stewart Judi Dench Ian McKellen Ben Kingsley and David... more

Extraordinary stories ordinary lives. This powerful and moving drama shares th... Extraordinary stories ordinary lives. This powerful and moving drama shares the stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. These women who live in our street and drink in our local share... more

This collection of 24 original duet scenes are based on the real-life situatio... This collection of 24 original duet scenes are based on the real-life situations faced by young women today. Split evenly between comedic and dramatic scenes the 8 to 10-minute length of each royalty-free scene is ideal for forensic competition or... more

Wearing a mask-putting on another face-embodies a fundamental human fantasy of... Wearing a mask-putting on another face-embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for... more

The third winner of the Yale Drama Series competition for emerging playwrights... The third winner of the Yale Drama Series competition for emerging playwrights--a haunting and provocative imagining of the reunion years later of a Guantánamo detainee and the female interrogator who tortured him It s been fifteen years since... more

When Blasted was first produced at the Royal Court in 1995 it was hailed joint... When Blasted was first produced at the Royal Court in 1995 it was hailed jointly as a masterpiece and a disgusting piece of filth (Daily Mail). Subsequently that play and the others that followed have been produced all over the world. This anthology... more

A Penguin Classic When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Nor... A Penguin Classic When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann s good... more

An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise and partial fall of fringe theate... An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise and partial fall of fringe theater Mike Bradwell s deadpan story is one of the funniest and angriest books to come out of theater today. As he travels through a counterculture peopled by scheming... more

In An Oresteia the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of... In An Oresteia the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus -- A iskhylos Agamemnon Sophokles Elektra and Euripides Orestes. After the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband Agamemnon... more

An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults road tested ... An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults road tested at the Folger Shakespeare Library s Student Shakespeare Festival. more

This edition of The Tempest is especially designed for students with accessibl... This edition of The Tempest is especially designed for students with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations clear background information and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials.This edition includes illustrations... more

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Steph... The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book... more

The boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama available today W.B. ... The boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama available today W.B. Worthen s pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. Based on the best-selling WADSWORTH... more

The Great Game: Afghanistan is an extraordinary cycle of plays by some of Brit... The Great Game: Afghanistan is an extraordinary cycle of plays by some of Britain s leading contemporary playwrights. The Great Game was a term used for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for... more

An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults road tested ... An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults road tested at the Folger Shakespeare Library s Student Shakespeare Festival. more

This edition of Much Ado About Nothing iis especially designed for students wi... This edition of Much Ado About Nothing iis especially designed for students with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations clear background information and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes... more

Available for the first time as an independent work David Grene s legendary tr... Available for the first time as an independent work David Grene s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles Greek into cogent vivid and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years Grene and Lattimore s Complete... more

John Webster was a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. This volum... John Webster was a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. This volume offers his two great Jacobean tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi together with his brilliant tragicomedy The Devil s Law-Case and the comedy written with... more

A premier playwright Edward Albee is also a gifted director. Albee in Performa... A premier playwright Edward Albee is also a gifted director. Albee in Performance details Albee s directorial vision and how that vision animates his plays. Having had extraordinary access to Albee as director Rakesh H. Solomon reveals how Albee has... more