Author : Mary Carolyn Waldrep
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0486112527
This collection of royalty-free plays contains classics by well-known playwrights: Glaspell's Trifles, Synge's Riders to the Sea, Strindberg's The Stronger, plus works by Aristophanes, Chekhov, Yeats, Barrie, and others.
Author : Sam Shepard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0345802764
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s Head
Author : Jason Pizzarello
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780981909974
Home of the most popular one-act plays for student actors, Playscripts, Inc. presents 15 of their very best short comedies. From a blind dating debacle to a silly Shakespeare spoof, from a fairy tale farce to a self-hating satire, this anthology contains hilarious large-cast plays that have delighted thousands of audiences around the world. Includes the plays The Audition by Don Zolidis, Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit by Jonathan Rand, 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview by Ian McWethy, Darcy's Cinematic Life by Christa Crewdson, The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fifth Period by Jason Pizzarello, Small World by Tracey Scott Wilson, The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe by Werner Trieschmann, The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet by Peter Bloedel, Show and Spell by Julia Brownell, Cut by Ed Monk, Check Please by Jonathan Rand, Aliens vs. Cheerleaders by Qui Nguyen, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon by Don Zolidis, 15 Reasons Not To Be in a Play by Alan Haehnel
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0486112349
DIVConcise, accessible version of the master's theory of dreams as disguised wish fulfillment. Contrasts scientific, popular views; considers origins, mental mechanisms. /div
Author : Plato
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0486839001
Important and influential Socratic dialogue addresses some of philosophy's most fundamental questions, including the definition of virtue and the nature and possibility of a priori (innate) knowledge. Jowett translation.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0486816508
Collection of Milton's most significant prose works features the famous tract "Areopagitica," a defense of freedom of speech, plus "Of Education," "Autobiographical Extracts," "The Doctrine and Disciple of Divorce," other essays.
Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0486806170
Key documents and memorable speeches include the Gettysburg Address; Lee's "Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia"; Frederick Douglass's "The War and How to End It"; plus campaign reports, private letters, and more.
Author : Inc. Dover Publications
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0486813320
This anthology collects sterling examples of the era's tragedies, dramas that both informed and were influenced by Shakespeare's work. Five plays include works by Kyd, Marlowe, Webster, and others.
Author : John Keats
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486113302
Treasury of 30 favorites: "On first looking into Chapman's Homer," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn," 26 more. Reprinted from standard text. Alphabetical List of Opening Lines.
Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486840662
The famed abolitionist's only fictional work is based on a true 1841 event, in which captives aboard a slave ship seized control and sailed the vessel to freedom in the Bahamas.
