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A comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. The play consists of multiple subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot revolves around a conflict between four Athenian lovers, one about a group of six amateur actors who have to act out their interpretation of the play 'Pyramus and Thisbe' at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. These subplots take place in a forest, inhabited by fairies who control the characters...
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????Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease...
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The powerful drama of Willy Loman & his tragic end. Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has...
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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
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It is evening in the library of Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in January 1906. Her son, Stephen enters. Britomart aggressively announces that as a grown man, Stephen must take charge of the family affairs. Lomax, his sister Sarah's fiancé, will not receive his trust fund for years. Barbara, the most promising member of the household, has joined the Salvation Army and taken up with a tempestuous Greek scholar, Adolphus Cusins. Britomart cannot...
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Penguin plays ; PL53
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Penguin Books
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1964.
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One of the distinguished comic dramatist's more somber plays, this entertaining allegory examines apathy, confusion and lack of purpose as causes of major world problems, with larger-than-life characters representing the evils of the modern world.
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Knopf
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1966.
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The only play by famed Scottish author Muriel Spark takes on the dilemmas of two intellectually ambitious women in 1960s England. In a home overlooking London's Regent's Canal in the 1960s, two scholars debate the choices they have made with their lives. Catherine Delfont was one of the most promising minds of her generation, but after earning her PhD she gave up her research to marry a well-regarded economist and raise a family. Her cousin Leonora...
11) Equus
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Story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological fascination with horses.
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Penguin Books
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1977.
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An adaptation by Arthur Miller of the story of a doctor who cannot conform. Dr. Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother, the mayor, conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story, Stockmann appeals to the public meeting only to be shouted down and reviled as an enemy of the people. Ibsen's explosive play reveals his distrust of politicians...
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Penguin Books
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1982.
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A Voyage Round My Father is a funny, subtle, touching portrait of his father's enigmatic endurance.
A Voyage Round My Father: John Mortimer's autobiographical play is the affectionate portrait of a son's relationship with his father. Growing up in the shadow of the brilliant barrister, who adored his garden and hated visitors, and whose blindness was never mentioned, the son continually yearns for his father's love and respect.
The Dock Brief: A...
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Penguin Books
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1983.
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This play is the story of Murray Burns, who is raising his twelve-year-old nephew in New York City. Murray quits his job as head writer of a TV show. That life does not only happen on the weekends. He prefers going to the movies instead of looking for a job. When social workers from the Bureau of Child Welfare come to investigate, they try to convince him to get another job. He must decide whether to accept some level of conformity in order to be...
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Lyman Felt is in his late fifties. Driving down Mount Morgan in the snow, he crashes his car and is taken to a hospital. Summoned to his bedside are his daughter and his two wives. Now Lyman's past, and his appetites, have caught up to him. Comical, poignant, and provocative, The Ride Down Mount Morgan is Miller's first full-length play in a decade.
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