A thoughtful history of the legendary New York City neighborhood chronicles the Village's role as a bohemian enclave that became the home of and transformed the lives of such individuals as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emma Goldman, Eugene O'Neill, Margaret Sanger, and Thomas Wolfe, who came to the neighborhood to pursue individual artistic, personal, and political dreams. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Features eight Obie Award-winning plays, including David Mamet's Edmond, Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu, Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and Eric Bogosian's Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. Original.

Presents ten of the most outstanding plays to appear Off-Broadway, including Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Genet's The Blacks, David Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Terence McNally's Bad Habits, and David Mamet's American Buffalo