Romeo and Juliet

eBook | 240 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-1-58836-841-6 (1-58836-841-6)

August 25, 2009 | $8.00



"The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based his early romantic tragedy on Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem The Tragicall Historye...

Yellowman

eBook | pages | Vintage | Drama - American
978-0-307-49346-0 (0-307-49346-6)

August 19, 2009 | $11.00



These two raucously acclaimed new plays by Dael Orlandersmith, whom The New York Times has called "an otherworldly messenger, perhaps the sorcerer's apprentice, or a heaven-sent angel with the devil in her," confirm her reputation as one of the truly unique voices in contemporary American drama.

In Yellowman, a finalist for the...

Antony and Cleopatra

eBook | pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-1-58836-834-8 (1-58836-834-3)

August 4, 2009 | $5.95



A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . ...

King Lear

eBook | 272 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-1-58836-828-7 (1-58836-828-9)

August 4, 2009 | $5.95



A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others...

Macbeth

eBook | pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-1-58836-833-1 (1-58836-833-5)

August 4, 2009 | $5.95



No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king-and thus, seals his own...

The Winter's Tale

eBook | pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-1-58836-836-2 (1-58836-836-X)

August 4, 2009 | $8.00



One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean...

Talk to Me

eBook | pages | Vintage | Drama - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-307-49166-4 (0-307-49166-8)

July 29, 2009 | $18.00



In this one-of-a-kind collection of monologue plays, Eric Lane and Nina Shengold have gathered a breathtaking array of human voices and stories by master playwrights and emerging new writers. Each of the plays, ranging from one-acts and ten-minute plays to full-length works, creates a rich and specific world. In these pages...

Buried Child

eBook | 128 pages | Vintage | Drama
978-0-307-49427-6 (0-307-49427-6)

June 10, 2009 | $14.00



A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize—winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than twenty-five years ago.

A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents...

Antony and Cleopatra

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-8129-6918-4 (0-8129-6918-9)

April 14, 2009 | $6.99



Written at the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s career and featuring his most soaring poetic idiom, Antony and Cleopatra is both an immortal love story and a political drama played out on a global scale.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...

King Lear

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-8129-6911-5 (0-8129-6911-1)

April 14, 2009 | $6.99



King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...

Macbeth

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-8129-6916-0 (0-8129-6916-2)

April 14, 2009 | $6.99



One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, filled with fierce, violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt in a world of blood and darkness, with whispers of the supernatural.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...

The Winter's Tale

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-8129-6919-1 (0-8129-6919-7)

April 14, 2009 | $9.00



One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean...

Almost an Evening

Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Three Rivers Press | Drama
978-0-307-46041-7 (0-307-46041-X)

April 7, 2009 | $15.50



Three satiric plays by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan Coen

Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading-the Coen brothers’ films are some of the most critically acclaimed and iconic of our time. Now, one half of the duo, Ethan Coen, adds playwriting to his eclectic bio. In these three short...

Almost an Evening

eBook | pages | Crown | Drama
978-0-307-46042-4 (0-307-46042-8)

April 7, 2009 | $13.00



Three satiric plays by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan Coen

Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading-the Coen brothers’ films are some of the most critically acclaimed and iconic of our time. Now, one half of the duo, Ethan Coen, adds playwriting to his eclectic bio. In these three short...

Soul of the Age

Hardcover | 496 pages | Random House | Drama - Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
978-1-4000-6206-5 (1-4000-6206-3)

April 7, 2009 | $40.00



“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in...