13 Top plays books like Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Christopher Hampton

Cover of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Christopher Hampton

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Christopher Hampton

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The scandalous reputation of Laclos's novel, first published in 1782, is based on its chilling port…

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Cover of The Balcony by Jean Genet

1. The Balcony

By: Jean Genet

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Book jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined s… read more

Similar categories in Jean Genet's The Balcony book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"The pimp has a grin, never a smile."

-Jean Genet, The Balcony

"It's a true image, born of a false spectacle."

-Jean Genet, The Balcony

"It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go."

-Jean Genet, The Balcony

"One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house."

-Jean Genet, The Balcony

Cover of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

2. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

Cover of Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

3. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

Similar categories in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • literature
  • plays
  • theatre
  • fiction
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Cover of Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker

5. Our Country's Good

By: Timberlake Wertenbaker

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An Australian penal colony in 1789. A young lieutenant directs rehearsals of the Restoration comedy… read more

Similar categories in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • historical fiction
Cover of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Christopher Hampton

6. Les Liaisons Dangereuses

By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Christopher Hampton

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The scandalous reputation of Laclos's novel, first published in 1782, is based on its chilling port… read more

Similar categories in Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama

7. Present Laughter

By: Noël Coward

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A topsy-turvy world of show biz in which star Garry Essendine copes with vamps, wife, producers who… read more

Similar categories in Noël Coward's Present Laughter book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Endgame by Samuel Beckett

8. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Beckett's Endgame book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Caretaker by Harold Pinter

9. The Caretaker

By: Harold Pinter

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow… read more

Similar categories in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Henry V by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

10. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Henry V book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama

11. The Magician King (The Magicians, #2)

By: Lev Grossman

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon o… read more

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12. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

Similar categories in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

13. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Miller

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more

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14. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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15. Away

By: Michael Gow

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm (5 acts, 6 men, 4 w… read more

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Cover of Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée

16. Les Liaisons dangereuses

By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée

4.06

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more

Similar categories in Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"J'ai vécu"

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

Cover of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

17. Amadeus

By: Peter Shaffer

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Ambition and jealousyall set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his riva… read more

Similar categories in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art."

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"I bet you that's how God hears the world! Millions of sounds ascending at once and mixing in His ear to become an unending music, unimaginable to us!"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

18. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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19. Twelve Angry Men

By: David Mamet , Reginald Rose

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introdu… read more

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Cover of Impact Winter Season 2 (Impact Winter #2) by Travis Beacham

20. Impact Winter Season 2 (Impact Winter #2)

By: Travis Beacham

3.98

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

The hit Audible Original series from executive producers of The Walking Dead and the writer of Paci… read more

Similar categories in Travis Beacham's Impact Winter Season 2 (Impact Winter #2) book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • fiction
Cover of Creating A Role by Constantin Stanislavski

21. Creating A Role

By: Constantin Stanislavski

4.13

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Creating a Role is the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Act… read more

Similar categories in Constantin Stanislavski's Creating A Role book and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel"

-Constantin Stanislavski, Creating A Role

12 best-selling fiction books like Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Christopher Hampton

Transform Your Habits

The Balcony

Jean Genet

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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17 Top fiction books like The Caretaker by Harold Pinter

Transform Your Habits

The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Chairs

Eugène Ionesco , Martin Crimp

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Arms and the Man

George Bernard Shaw

4.06

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