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Author:Miller, Arthur
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Author:Guirgis, Stephen Adly
Summary:From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate" (Toby Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer) - Set in a time-bending, seriocomi
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Author:Shakespeare, William
Summary:The Merchant of Venice is classed as one of Shakespeare's comedies, but is more often remembered for its dramatic characters and situations.
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Author:Wilde, Oscar
Summary:Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London.
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Author:O'Neill, Eugene
Summary:Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Author:Pinter, Harold
Summary:'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer.
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Author:Bennett, Alan
Summary:An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher.
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Author:O'Neill, Eugene
Summary:One of the most significant plays of the twentieth century, Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape is still as startlingly fresh and innovative as it was when it was first published nearly a hund
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Author:Williams, Tennessee
Summary:No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
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Author:Webster, John
Summary:Shakespeare may get the lion's share of attention when it comes to early modern playwrights – but critics regard the era as something of a golden age of drama.
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Author:Ionesco, Eugène
Summary:This absurdist masterpiece by the author of Rhinoceros—"is explosively, liberatingly funny...a loony parody with a climax which is an orgy of non-sequiturs" (The Observer).
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Author:Jean Genet
Summary:A masterpiece of twentieth-century drama by the iconic author of Our Lady of the Flowers: “ingenious, intellectually exciting, and, yes, still quite shocking” (The New York Times).—In the midst of
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Author:Aeschylus
Summary:The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is the first play in The Trilogy of the Oresteia – which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged.
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Author:Barrie, J. M.
Summary:Though today he is best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, British author J.M. Barrie was a playwright with wide-ranging interests and an irreverent sense of humor.
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Author:Taylor, Drew Hayden
Summary:Someday is a powerful new play by award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor.
Genre: Canadian drama, Indigenous materialsAvailable Formats: