Uta Hagen This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams.Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded...

Retold by Andrew Matthews These eight Shakespeare plays, retold in prose by British author Andrew Matthews and beautifully illustrated by Angela Barrett, make a perfect introduction to the most famous...

Fredrico Garcia Lorca In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on...

  Isben Ghosts and Other Plays by Ibsen is a collection of five works of theatre, exploring the difficult topics of love, morality, and mortality. These plays represent Ibsen's penetrating...

George Bernard Shaw Experience the works of George Bernard Shaw with Arms and the Man & John Bull's Other Island, two classic plays set in the late 19th century. This...

Author: Arthur Miller Written in 1945, Focus was Arthur Miller's first novel and one of the first books to directly confront American anti-Semitism. It remains as chilling and incisive today...

Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka has translated—in both language and spirit—a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear for the cadences and rhythms of chorus...

Jean Genet The two plays featured in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In...

Leslie Dunkling

Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, Editors This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all guaranteed to send readers and audiences into...

Tennessee WilliamsThe story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.