19 Best plays books like Rockets and Blue Lights by Winsome Pinnock

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Rockets and Blue Lights

By: Winsome Pinnock

4.07

Format: 80 pages, ebook

On the set of a new film about Victorian artist J.M.W. Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an u…

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Cover of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

1. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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2. The Changeling

By: Thomas Middleton , William Rowley

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume Th… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Let me feel how thy pulses beat."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

"FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy."

-Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

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3. 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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  • plays
"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

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4. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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5. Black Hawk: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

By: Black Hawk , Donald Jackson

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheek… read more

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6. All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • drama
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7. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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8. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

9. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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10. Far Away

By: Caryl Churchill

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other line." - Village Voice "A ma… read more

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11. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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12. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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13. Salomé

By: Oscar Wilde , Aubrey Beardsley , Robert Baldwin Ross , Alfred Bruce Douglas

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned … read more

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14. 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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15. House of M

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Scott Hanna , Tim Townsend , None , Chris Eliopoulos , Olivier Coipel , Rick Magyar , John Dell , Frank D'Armata , None , None , None

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Marvel event of the decade is here! The Avengers and the X-Men are faced with a common foe that… read more

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16. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

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"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

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17. Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)

By: Robin Hobb

4.41

Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition

Tom Badgerlock has been living peaceably in the manor house at Withywoods with his beloved wife Mol… read more

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"Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined."

-Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)

"It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones."

-Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)

"I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else."

-Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)

"I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity."

-Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)

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18. The Batman Who Laughs

By: Scott Snyder

3.76

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Left rattled by the events of Dark Knights: Metal, Bruce Wayne must come face to face with the ulti… read more

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19. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

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  • 21st century
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

Cover of The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith

20. The Wife of Willesden

By: Zadie Smith

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoff… read more

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  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones

21. Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner

By: Jasmine Lee-Jones

3.01

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

In this innovative play blending real life and online culture, a young Black woman takes to Twitter… read more

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  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama

22. Natural Shocks

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.49

Format: None pages, None

"Angela is trapped in her basement, waiting out an approaching tornado. Though a self-proclaimed un… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Blue Beetle: Graduation Day by Josh Trujillo

23. Blue Beetle: Graduation Day

By: Josh Trujillo

3.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Jaime Reyes has a lot to juggle. Whether it's his finals for senior year or a new villain tearing u… read more

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24. The Funeral Director

By: Iman Qureshi

3.89

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize - 2018 Life as the director of a Muslim funeral parlour i… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Consent by Nina Raine

25. Consent

By: Nina Raine

3.98

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends Ed and Tim take opposing brie… read more

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  • 21st century
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Rockets and Blue Lights by Winsome Pinnock

26. Rockets and Blue Lights

By: Winsome Pinnock

4.07

Format: 80 pages, ebook

On the set of a new film about Victorian artist J.M.W. Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an u… read more

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  • 21st century
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Overflow (Modern Plays) by Travis Alabanza

27. Overflow (Modern Plays)

By: Travis Alabanza

4.30

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

"Club toilets have taught me more about sisterhood than any book." Cornered into a flooding toilet… read more

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  • plays
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28. Ear for Eye

By: debbie tucker green

4.03

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

"Marchin' days is over man." Patience is running out, times have changed. And progress isn't enough… read more

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  • plays
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29. Hansard

By: Simon Woods

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and… read more

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  • plays
Cover of A History of Water in the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz

30. A History of Water in the Middle East

By: Sabrina Mahfouz

4.21

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? … read more

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  • plays
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31. The High Table

By: Temi Wilkey

4.48

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

That's actually what me and Leah came here to talk to you about. Look- there's no easy way of sayin… read more

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  • plays

12 best-selling drama books like Rockets and Blue Lights by Winsome Pinnock

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Changeling

Thomas Middleton , William Rowley

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

All My Sons

Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

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13 Top plays books like The Funeral Director by Iman Qureshi

Transform Your Habits

Jerusalem

Jez Butterworth

3.81

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A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

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Indecent

Paula Vogel

4.46

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The Wife of Willesden

Zadie Smith

3.74

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