The Rover
By: Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of …
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1. Tara: A play in two acts
By: Mahesh Dattani
3.94
Format: 61 pages, Hardcover
‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri Tara and Chandan have always been close. Th… read more
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2. The Roaring Girl
By: Thomas Dekker , Thomas Middleton , Elizabeth Cook
3.41
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important Engish plays. Each volume i… read more
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3. The Man of Mode (New Mermaids)
By: George Etherege , Goerge Etherege
3.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fa… read more
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4. Everyman
By: Anonymous , Unknown
3.27
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more
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5. The Convent of Pleasure: A Comedy
By: Margaret Cavendish
3.56
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), began her literary career in 1653, with… read more
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6. Dr. Faustus
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.80
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more
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"Hell is just a frame of mind."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Be silent then, for danger is in words."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
7. The Way of the World
By: William Congreve
3.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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"One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo"-William Congreve, The Way of the World
8. 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
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9. Troilus and Criseyde
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth… read more
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"And after winter folweth grene May."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"The very eyeballs in your skull look dead."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Not knowing, in his misery, for the nonce, What he was doing, he rushed away at once"-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is."-Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
10. Tamburlaine the Great
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.33
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
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"Time passeth swift away; Our life is frail, and we may die to-day."-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
"Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest."-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
"Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers, Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power So scatter and cons…"-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
11. The Vicar of Wakefield
By: Robert L. Mack , Oliver Goldsmith , Arthur Friedman
3.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly … read more
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12. The Rover
By: Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of … read more
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13. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
By: Eliza Fowler Haywood
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more
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14. Paradise Lost Book 1
By: John Milton
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
An epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton, Paradise Lost follows the… read more
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16. A Bold Stroke for a Wife
By: Susanna Centlivre , Nancy Copeland
3.44
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A Bold Stroke for a Wifeis perhaps the finest example of Centlivre's masterful plotting of comic in… read more
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17. The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
This well-established series is now being updated with new scholarly introductions and attractive n… read more
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18. Volpone
By: Ben Jonson
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more
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19. The Beggar's Opera
By: John Gay , Bryan Loughrey , T.O. Treadwell
4.07
Format: 213 pages,
The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The P… read more
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20. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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21. The Book of Margery Kempe
By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more
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22. The Second Shepherd's Play
By: Wakefield Master
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Lisl Beer adapted this famous play from the Towley Manuscript of Old English. As observed in FaceBo… read more
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23. The Rape of the Lock
By: Alexander Pope
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more
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24. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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26. Mrs. Warren's Profession
By: George Bernard Shaw
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, … read more
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27. General Prologue To The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
3.87
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Presents the text of Chaucer's General Prologue, from the Riverside text with support on the portra… read more
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28. The Country Wife
By: William Wycherley , None
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
'Cuckolds like lovers should themselves deceive' So concludes one of Wycherley's most revived and m… read more
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29. The Duchess of Malfi
By: John Webster
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more
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30. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
31. Joseph Andrews
By: Henry Fielding
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby's advances, she discharges him, and Joseph and his old tutor, Par… read more
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