9 Top plays books like Paradise by Kae Tempest

Paradise

By: Kae Tempest

3.87

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Strand…

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1. Antigone

By: Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Eu… read more

Similar categories in Jean Anouilh's Antigone book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • plays
  • mythology
"My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part."

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me"

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"Antigone — Et serre moi. Plus fort que tu ne m'as jamais serrée. Que toute ta force s'imprime dans moi. Hémon — Là. De toute ma force."

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you―do you have the feeling that―that a great empty spa…"

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

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2. 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

Similar categories in Anonymous's Everyman book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • poetry
  • plays
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3. Equus (Penguin Plays)

By: Peter Shaffer

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more

Similar categories in Peter Shaffer's Equus (Penguin Plays) book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • plays
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

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4. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

Similar categories in Nick Payne's Constellations book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • plays
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5. India: A History

By: John Keay

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South… read more

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6. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • poetry
  • mythology
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7. Midnight’s Children

By: Salman Rushdie

3.98

Format: 647 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

"Life again refused to remain lifesized"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

8. 4.48 Psychosis

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more

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9. 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 Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • plays
"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

10. Meghaduta Of Kalidasa

By: Kālidāsa

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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11. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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12. And Still I Rise

By: Maya Angelou

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this inspiring poem, Maya Angelou celebrates the courage of the human spirit over the harshest o… read more

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13. Barber Shop Chronicles (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Inua Ellams

4.13

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five Afr… read more

Similar categories in Inua Ellams's Barber Shop Chronicles (Oberon Modern Plays) book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • poetry
  • plays
Cover of Fleabag: The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

14. Fleabag: The Scriptures

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

4.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming script… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag: The Scriptures book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • plays
"I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"The funeral liturgy says that life is changed and not ended. I've always loved that, if that's of any help."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"I just think I want someone to tell me how to live my life, Father, because so far, I think I've been getting it wrong."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"[Love] is all any of us want and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

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15. 100 Queer Poems

By: Mary Jean Chan

3.82

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Clémence en colère by Mirion Malle

16. Clémence en colère

By: Mirion Malle

4.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Clémence est en colère. Une colère si forte, si envahissante qu'elle l'empêche de vivre. Sentant qu… read more

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17. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

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  • poetry
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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18. Tous des oiseaux

By: Wajdi Mouawad

4.19

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Éperdument amoureux, Eitan et Wahida confrontent la réalité historique contre laquelle ils tentero… read more

Similar categories in Wajdi Mouawad's Tous des oiseaux book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • plays

19. Paradise

By: Kae Tempest

3.87

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Strand… read more

Similar categories in Kae Tempest's Paradise book and Kae Tempest's Paradise

  • plays
  • poetry
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
Cover of La India por dentro: una guía cultural para el viajero by Álvaro Enterría

20. La India por dentro: una guía cultural para el viajero

By: Álvaro Enterría

4.31

Format: 535 pages, Paperback

Basándose en su profundo conocimiento del país y en su experiencia de vida cotidiana en la sociedad… read more

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21. Indian Art (Oxford History of Art)

By: Partha Mitter

3.73

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5,000 years of Indian art and architec… read more

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