16 Top plays books like The Fourposter: A Comedy in Three Acts by Jan de Hartog

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The Fourposter: A Comedy in Three Acts

By: Jan de Hartog

3.28

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

The Fourposter published by Samuel french, Inc., actor's editions of the play, includes scene by sc…

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1. Agnes of God

By: John Pielmeier

3.96

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Drama / Characters: 3 FemalesSummoned to a covent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychi… read more

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Cover of Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge

2. Come Back, Little Sheba

By: William Inge

3.82

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Drama / Characters: 8 male, 3 femaleScenery: InteriorWilliam Inge burst upon the theatrical scene w… read more

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3. Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You & The Actor's Nightmare

By: Christopher Durang

3.98

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You is a black comedy about Catholicism. An Actor's Nig… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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4. The Boys in the Band

By: Mart Crowley

4.01

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

"Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defi… read more

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Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

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

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6. Dial M for Murder

By: Frederick Knott

3.95

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A three act drama for five men and one woman about a murder-for-hire gone wrong. read more

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7. Broadway Bound

By: Neil Simon

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Neil Simon continues the semiautobiographical trilogy begun with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi … read more

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8. Henry VI, Part 1

By: William Shakespeare , Stephen Orgel , A.R. Braunmuller

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket.… read more

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9. Bus Stop

By: William Inge

2.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

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10. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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11. 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

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12. Menaechmi; Or, the Twin-Brothers

By: Plautus , Henry Thomas Riley

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered to be Plautus's greatest play, "Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers" is the story of two tw… read more

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13. A Moon for the Misbegotten

By: Eugene O'Neill , Stephen A. Black

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographica… read more

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14. Proof

By: David Auburn

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as muc… read more

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15. King Henry VI, Part 3

By: William Shakespeare , Eric Rasmussen , John D. Cox

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make… read more

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16. Deathtrap

By: Ira Levin

4.09

Format: None pages,

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17. The Odd Couple

By: Neil Simon

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Comedy / 6m, 2f / Int. This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assembled for cards in the … read more

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18. Look Back in Anger

By: John Osborne

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more

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19. Translations

By: Brian Friel

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile … read more

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20. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By: Tom Stoppard , None

3.48

Format: None pages,

Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more

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21. 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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22. 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

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"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

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23. The Dumb Waiter

By: Harold Pinter

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

One of his most recognized and acclaimed plays, Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” is a humorous and… read more

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24. 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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25. 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. King Henry VI, Part 2

By: William Shakespeare , Christopher Marlowe , None

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the En… read more

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27. The Room

By: Harold Pinter

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rose and Bert rent a room that might almost be a paleolithic cave; the outside is terrifying and un… read more

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28. Glengarry Glen Ross

By: David Mamet

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat rea… read more

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29. Measure for Measure

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

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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30. Titus Andronicus

By: William Shakespeare

3.68

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more

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"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

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31. The Fourposter: A Comedy in Three Acts

By: Jan de Hartog

3.28

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

The Fourposter published by Samuel french, Inc., actor's editions of the play, includes scene by sc… read more

Similar categories in Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter: A Comedy in Three Acts book and Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter: A Comedy in Three Acts

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  • plays
  • drama

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Agnes of God

John Pielmeier

3.96

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William Inge

3.82

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Christopher Durang

3.98

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4.01

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Edward Albee

4.06

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4.01

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Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Martin McDonagh

4.30

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