Plays, playscripts

Readers of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare’s greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long?

In The Plays of Samuel Beckett Eugene Webb first summarizes the western philosophical tradition which has culminated in the void--the centuries of attempts to impose form and meaning on existence, the failure of which has left experience in fragments and man a stranger in an unintelligible universe.

An earthy, cruel, and hilarious family drama of profound and reckless love Set in a bar in the Florida Everglades, this biting, brutally funny multigenerational family drama concerns a Gulf Coast couple, their disabled young ward, two lesbian tenants, and the bonds that bind them all together.

The tenth winner of the Yale Drama Series centers on a young mother dealing with life’s many trials Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend’s powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas.

Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth.

The 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished.

Curating material from Applauses Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, weve created the must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays.

The 2018 winner of the Yale Drama Series competition is a riveting exploration of family and death Set in Kentucky, this compelling drama centers around a Japanese-American family reunited as their matriarch undergoes cancer treatment.

The ninth winner of the Yale Drama Series is a searing and powerful drama of slave litigation, injustice, institutional racism, and the rule of law.

A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life Does acting matter?

Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the field of theatre production itself.

This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance.

In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia.

In the Shakespeare aftermath-where all things Shakespearean are available for reassembly and reenactment-experimental transactions with Shakespeare become consequential events in their own right, informed by technologies of performance and display that defy conventional staging and filmic practices.

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his critics.

I suppose I never questioned why I was only one piece beforeA woman trapped at home during an air raid.

This powerful, eloquent play moves like a Greek tragedy to its inevitable conclusion.

Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) wrote a number of comic plays during his life.

Based on the novel by Stendhal (Henri Beyle, 1783-1842), The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a talented and ambitious young peasant.

In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge fortune to charity, Pecksniff travels from London to America to dissuade the dying man from such a mistake.

In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire.

Voltaire's The Death of Caesar (Mort de Cesar, 1735) is often erroneously described as a reworking of the first three acts of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

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Based on the 1885 novel by Henry James, this play tells the story of Hyacinth Robinson, the bastard son of a French woman and an English lord.

Philippe Quinault (1635-1688) was the highest paid and most respected French librettist of his day, considered the equal of Racine.

Based on the bestselling novel by James Branch Cabell, Jurgen is a philosophical fantasy in the manner of Candide, which strings together the hero's sexual adventures into an ironic and satirical commentary on life and sex.

This play distills the essence of Congreve into one stageworthy play.

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of all time.

Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Leon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century.

Based on Ivan Turgenev's novel of the same name, Frank J.

Henry Murger wrote a series of popular short stories in the late 1840s describing the poverty of the young artists of his generation in Paris, basing them on his personal experiences.

Based on the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary tells the tale of Emma Bovary, who is romantic by nature, and believes herself the equal of the heroines depicted in the romantic novels she reads.

Voltaire's classic novel CANDIDE has been adapted many times through many different forms of media, but this 20th-century dramatic version is one of the best.

First performed in Galati, Romania, in 1996, Victor Cilinca's Polonius is a play of political machination, social aspiration, treachery, and self-deception, set during the events of Hamlet.

This is a book of short stories that deals mainly with the Western part of the United States.

In the year 2021, twelve men and women in high government posts suddenly disappear.

One of the world's leading children's dramatists provides a practical handbook of the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences of children.

DONT ASK, DONT TELL is a fictionalized account of the experiences of numerous members of the U.

A drug dealer who doesnt want to deal anymore, Brazilian hit men, two shrewd trailer trash brothers, a mafia boss with a bad leg and a Chinese bodyguard fly through the pages of The Ariel.

Planet X was the subject of free and open debate among astronomers and scientists decades ago.

This updated edition of Costumes for the Stage aims at simplicity in all aspects of designing and making costumes.

This novel set in the North Country of New York State explores gay adoption in an entertaining way for both gay and general audiences.

Zepaniah Bierman, a mustanger turned hunter, lies on the top of the rocky sandy arroyo.

The main character, Janice Johnson became an expert aiding individuals and companies find solutions to everyday tasks by integrating computer systems.

Charlotte is afraid of love and of life.

Spy Land Women Play Me season one is a dangerous spy story with twists and turns that naturally take shape deep inside of the readers mind; information the reader can verify and investigate online; touching on erotic, funny situations; all spider-webbed together in a riveting serial killers story.

Trusting another is showing the most vulnerable part of yourself, and if you cant trust, you cant find happiness.

Several years after a global ecological catastrophe the majority of humanity has morally regressed.