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Imaginary Friends
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 12.00Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy probably only met once in their lives, their names will be linked forever in the history of American literary feuds: they were legendary enemies, especially after McCarthy famously announced to the world that every word Hellman wrote was a lie, ?including ?and? and ?the.?? The public battle, and the legal... more...
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Random House 2011; US$ 13.34Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family. more...
A Raisin in the Sun
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.50"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on... more...
Harold Pinter Plays 3
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 24.78This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming , Old Times , No Man's Land , four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize. The Homecoming 'Of all Harold Pinter's major plays, The Homecoming has... more...
Harold Pinter Plays 1
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 24.78This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party . The Birthday Party Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. 'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably... more...
Country Girls
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 13.11Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story. more...
Caligula and Three Other Plays
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 10.36The Cambridge Companion to Brecht
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 25.00Updated edition of The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, introducing new voices and themes. more...
Romeo and Juliet
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 3.95Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's early tragedies. The two young title characters fall madly in love, but are the children of feuding houses whose hatred for each other works to a devastating end. The play was immensely popular in Shakespeare's lifetime and is the most enduring of his plays along with Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet is considered... more...
Julius Caesar
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 3.95Although Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is named after the legendary Roman political leader, the central character is thought by many to be Marcus Brutus, Caesar's friend turned foe who struggles throughout the play with conflicting obligations of friendship and duty. While Caesar is warned in a prophecy to "beware the Ides of March"... more...









