A Jovial Crew
By: Stephen Jeffreys
3.18
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar commun…
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1. 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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2. Endymion: John Lyly (The Revels Plays)
By: John Lyly , David Bevington , Stephen Bevington
3.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Full and comprehensive commentary. Solid and scholarly introduction. A welcome edition to this reno… read more
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"In this fancy of the moon he deprives himself of the sight of the sun."-John Lyly, Endymion: John Lyly (The Revels Plays)
"Thy years are not so many as thy vices, yet more in number than commonly nature doth afford or justice should permit."-John Lyly, Endymion: John Lyly (The Revels Plays)
"Affection that is bred by enchantment is like a flower that is wrought in silk: in color and form most like, but nothing at all in substance or savor."-John Lyly, Endymion: John Lyly (The Revels Plays)
"TELLUS: Why, she is but a woman. ENDYMION: No more was Venus. TELLUS: She is but a virgin. ENDYMION: No more was Vesta. TELLUS: She shall have an end. ENDYMION: So shall the world. TELLUS: Is not her…"-John Lyly, Endymion: John Lyly (The Revels Plays)
3. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
4. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
5. 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
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"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
"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
6. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
7. Gallathea (Malone Society Reprints , No 161)
By: John Lyly
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
This is a photographic facsimile of John Lyly's comedy Gallathea, printed in 1592, taken from the c… read more
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- plays
8. The Faerie Queene
By: Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
The Faerie Queenewas the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the languag… read more
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9. 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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10. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
11. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: * printed version of the … read more
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- plays
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13. The Jew of Malta
By: Christopher Marlowe , H. Havelock Ellis
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The spirit of Machiavelli presides over The Jew of Malta,in which the title character relentlessly … read more
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14. The Playboy of the Western World
By: J.M. Synge
4.33
Format: None pages,
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre o… read more
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15. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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16. A New Way to Pay Old Debts
By: Philip Massinger , None
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Play script, including biographical notes, textual details, and information about the staging of th… read more
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17. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
18. Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more
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19. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
20. The Witch
By: Thomas Middleton , Elizabeth Schafer , William C. Carroll , None , None , None
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
HECATE Titty and Tiffin, Suckin and Pidgen, Liard and Robin, White spirits, black spirits, grey spi… read more
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21. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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22. Edward II
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
The last of Marlowe's great dramas, often considered his masterpiece. read more
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23. Vagabond, Volume 1
By: Takehiko Inoue , Eiji Yoshikawa , None
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shinmen Takezo is destined to become the legendary sword-saint, Miyamoto Musashi--perhaps the most … read more
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24. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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25. 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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26. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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27. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
By: Thomas Middleton , Alan Brissenden
4.36
Format: 524 pages, Paperback
Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613,this master-piece of Jacobean ci… read more
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28. The Last September
By: Elizabeth Bowen
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
The Last Septemberis Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized ti… read more
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29. A Jovial Crew
By: Stephen Jeffreys
3.18
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar commun… read more
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30. The Late Lancashire Witches
By: Thomas Heywood
3.34
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The infamous 'witch trials' had not even begun when this sensational dramatization was first perfor… read more
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31. The Spanish Gypsy
By: Thomas Middleton
2.67
Format: None pages, None
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of c… read more
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