Product Description: In the sequel to reasons to be pretty, Greg, Steph, Carly, and Kent return a little older, but not necessarily wiser. And don't worry if you haven't met them before there s more than enough humor and humanity to usher you into the second act of their lives...read more

Product Description: I'll gather my breath. I'll walk out of my room. I'll know exactly where I'm going to go. The voice in my head tells me exactly where to go. In the opulent grandeur of a European city, a renowned singer abandons the opera house for the truth of the streets...read more

Product Description: This edition of The Taming of the Shrew is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes, allowing students to master Shakespeare's work...read more

Product Description: I could squeeze a bullet between those lips. Point first. Press it between those rosebud lips. Prise it between your pearly whites. Gently. I wouldn't break a single tooth. Philip Ridley's first new play since 2008 marks a change of direction for the acclaimed, ever-restless and maverick writer...read more

On a late 19th-century estate, a Midsummer's Eve celebration leads to a scandalous encounter between a count's daughter and his footman.

Product Description: Adapted from Molière’s The Misanthrope, David Ives’s The School for Lies tells the comic tale of Frank, who shares with Molière’s Alceste a venomous hatred of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. Like his predecessor, Frank gets into trouble for insulting the work of a dreadful poet and falls in love with Celimene, a witty widow...read more

Product Description: (Applause Libretto Library). An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters meet only once, at their wedding in the middle of the show...read more

Product Description: Completely revised and expanded, the second edition of Case Studies for Understanding the Human Body is the ideal resource for students enrolled in any Anatomy and Physiology or Human Biology Course. The case studies work well in a cooperative learning setting where students work together to review and solve open-ended questions associated with each case...read more

Woven out of three monologues in what one reviewer called "a triple sonata of oppression and incomprehension" (The Sunday Times, London), Wallace Shawn's new play is a masterful drama about the self, politics, and the pursuit of aesthetic subtleties in brutal times. The three characters are the eponymous designated mourner, Jack; his wife, Judy; and Judy's erudite father, Howard. Despite a passionate bond with her father, Judy is drawn to Jack, whose taste in cultural forms follows a disturbing path. When Jack abandons both Judy and Howard, he continues his riveting societal free-fall into a world of gleeful savagery.Other works by Wallace Shawn are A Thought in Three Parts, Our Late Night, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner With Andre (co-written with Andre Gregory), Aunt Dan and Lemon, and The Fever.

Product Description: “A mischievous new translation by the poet Richard Wilbur, [The Bungler] is great good fun and should open the gate for the play to be presented with the regularity it deserves.”—Bruce Weber, The New York Times“My notion of translation is that you try to bring it back alive...read more

Product Description: George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume...read more

Product Description: The third battle of Ayckbourns celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests, returns us to the same weekend in the country, but this time to the setting of Mothers overgrown English country garden. Something more troublesome than brambles is lurking among the roses...read more

Product Description: 4m, 1f / Running Time: 90 minutes plus intermission Period costumes and set pieces, mid to late 19th century Act I, The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton, is from Mark Twain's story of two people falling in love at a great distance with the aid of that brand-new invention, the telephone...read more

Product Description: The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments—the "taming"—until she becomes a compliant and obedient bride...read more

La pièce est accompagnée de questionnaires de lecture pour une approche méthodique du texte. Le cahier iconographique Les thèmes majeurs de la pièce sont évoqués par de nombreuses photographies de mises en scène (Marcel Bluwal, Antoine Vitez...). Des questions de lecture de l'image sont proposées dans la rubrique - Le texte et ses images -. L'appareil critique Biographie de l'auteur et genèse de l' uvre. La préciosité. La représentation de la Cour. Les grands thèmes de la pièce : l'honnête homme, la misanthropie... Des groupements de textes sur la satire du jeu social (Du Bellay, Diderot...) et les portraits de femmes (Crébillon, Rousseau...). ... Ouvrage dirigé par Marie-Hélène Prat

Product Description: Winterset is a class American drama told in poetic verse form. It is also historical, in that it follows the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The story revolves around the two Italian men with radical beliefs who are executed for a murder/robbery they were innocent of, and of the son's determination to prove that innocence...read more

Product Description: “Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”—The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including • an original Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work• commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers• photographs of key RSC productions• an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century...read more