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Major World Dramas

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Anton Chekhov

David Mamet

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's Uncle Vanya is a sparkling restoration of a masterpiece of the modern stage, marked by Mamet's finely tuned ear for dialogue and memorable poetic imagery.

In "Uncle Vanya," a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased first wife to find themselves overwhelmed by the stagnant inevitability of the rituals of their life and class, and mercilessly taxed by the encroachment of age at the expense of youth. All of the play's characters are plunged into that precarious state where, in Beckett's words, "the boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being."

Working from a literal translation by Vlada Chernomordik, Mamet, who has also adapted Chekhov's Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, opens the way for a contemporary audience to establish immediate contact with a classic, infusing the power of Chekhov's play with the potent precision of his own modern voice.

Uncle Vanya

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Richard Wilbur

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In brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere's comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and spirit of the language but also its substance.



The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience and sincerity are too rigorous for his time.



In Tartuffe, a wily, opportunistic swindler manipulates a wealthy prude and bigot through his claims of piety. This latter translation earned Wilbur a share of the Bollingen Translation Prize for his critically-acclaimed work of this satiric take on religious hypocrisy.



"Mr. Wilbur has given us a sound, modern, conversational poetry and has made Moliere's The Misanthrope brilliantly our own."--The New York Times Book Review

 

The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, by Molière

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Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

David Coward

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The Barber of Seville, the Marriage of Figaro, the Guilty Mother

The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty MotherEighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? Not the impertinent valet of the operas of Mozart or Rossini, but both the spirit ofresistance to oppression and a bourgeois individualist like his creator.The three plays in which he plots and schemes chronicle the slide of the ancien regime into revolution but also chart the growth of Beaumarchais' humanitarianism. They are also exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the directionof French theatre for a hundred years. This lively new translation catches all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature.Beaumarchais[title should link to the catalogue entry][insert cover image 2804138]

The Figaro Trilogy

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Aeschylus

Aeschylus I

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Oliver Goldsmith

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This charming comedy has delighted audiences for over two centuries. First performed in 1773, it concerns Kate Hardcastle, a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A number of delightful deceits and hilarious turns of plot must be played out before the mating strategies of both Kate Hardcastle and her friend Constance Neville conclude happily. Along the way, there is an abundance of merry mix-ups, racy dialogue and sly satire of the sentimental comedies of Goldsmith's day.
The extraordinary humor and humanity with which Goldsmith invested this play have made it one of the most read, performed, and studied of all English comedies. It is now available in this inexpensive Dover edition, based on the text of the fourth edition, published in the year of the play's first staging.

She Stoops to Conquer

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Seneca

E. F. Watling

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Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her stepson. In The Trojan Women, the widowed Hecuba and Andromache await their fates at the hands of the conquering Greeks, and Oedipus follows the downfall of the royal House of Thebes. Octavia is a grim commentary on Nero's tyrannical rule and the execution of his wife, with Seneca himself appearing as an ineffective counsellor attempting to curb the atrocities of the emperor.

Four Tragedies and Octavia

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Four great plays 

Henrik Ibsen

A hand me down book that has been well loved by students. Has some damage to cover and a tear on back of cover. 

Four Major Plays

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Tony Kushner

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Perestroika

Angels in American 

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This is a hand me down book with some wear in the sides. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Millennium Approaches

Angels in America

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Euripides Ten Plays 

James L. Roberts

Denis M. Calandra

In Tartuffe, a witty 17th-century French comedy, a religious hypocrite almost succeeds in his plot to jail a naive friend and his family and thereby get the title to their home. The Misanthrope centers on a man who decides to speak and act with complete honesty, despite the fact that society has its hypocritical aspects. Love enters the picture, and the results are funny and filled with disillusionment. Moliere's play The Bourgeois Gentleman tells us about a boring, unimaginative, and newly wealthy man who decides that he will become a first-class gentleman. Many comic episodes ensue before the final disappointment.

Tartuffe, Misanthrope and the Bourgeois Gentleman

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Jeffrey Fisher

Waiting for Godot and Other Plays

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Robert J. Milch

This was a book I got from a former colleague. It is in fair condition with some wear on the sides.

Oedipus, the banished king of Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother, is the subject of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, a series of three tragedies that tell a connected story.

Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone

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Masashi Kishimoto

Was given a while ago and need to find it’s new home. 

Naruto, Vol. 4

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In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.

Naruto, Vol. 1

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Naruto, Vol. 2

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Tsugumi Ohba

When high school student Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god, he discovers that any person whose name is written in it dies, so Light decides to use the notebook to rid the world of evil.

Death Note, Vol. 6

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Sabaa Tahir

Has been sitting on a shelf for over 2 years after being read once. Want to give it a new home. 


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"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--

An Ember in the Ashes

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Yoshiaki Sukeno

Has been sitting on a shelf for over 2 years after being read once. Want to give it a new home.

Onmyoji

Exorcists Rokuro and Benio unleash serious supernatural action while purifying the world of monsters.

The "Twin Star Exorcists" are fated to produce the child prophesied to end the war with the monstrous Kegare... But can Rokuro and Benio get along for five minutes, let alone save the world?

Rokuro dreams of becoming anything but an exorcist! Then mysterious Benio turns up. The pair are dubbed the "Twin Star Exorcists" and learn they are fated to marry...

Can Rokuro escape both fates?

When Rokuro's best friend Ryogo goes missing, Rokuro is forced to ask Benio for help to enter Magano, the realm of the evil Kegare, to rescue him!

Twin Star Exorcists, Vol. 1

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Yusei Matsui

Has been sitting on a shelf for over 2 years after being read once. Want to give it a new home. 

The students in Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High have a new teacher: an alien octopus with bizarre powers and unlimited strength, who’s just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth—unless they can kill him first! Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who's doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry. Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison...? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students' tattered self-esteem?

Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1

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Robico

The unstable and violent Haru Yoshida latches on to Shizuku Mizutani, an overachiever with no friends, sparking the beginning of an unusual and potentially volatile relationship.

My Little Monster 1

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Rikki Simons

Has been sitting on a shelf for over 2 years after being read once. Want to give it a new home. Some wear and tear on the edges. 

Now that Megan has merged with the goddess Laahli, Megan discovers she can teleport to any place within Merridiah she desires. Damien, terrified at the idea of Megan's divine union, hatches a plan to imprison Megan within university grounds.

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The Figaro Trilogy

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Aeschylus I

Oliver Goldsmith

She Stoops to Conquer

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Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen

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Tony Kushner

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Tony Kushner

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Waiting for Godot and Other Plays

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