15 Best plays books like Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress

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Wine in the Wilderness

By: Alice Childress

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Book annotation not available for this Wine in the Childress, Dramatist's Play ServicePublicatio…

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Cover of Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones by Amiri Baraka

1. Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones

By: Amiri Baraka

3.77

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

" Dutchman  is designed to shock—its basic idea, its language and its murderous rage." — New York T… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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2. The Penelopiad

By: Margaret Atwood

3.72

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more

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"the gods often mumble"

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

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

3. 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

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream book and Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness

  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school
"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

Cover of Happy Ending and A Day of Absence. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by None, Douglas Turner Ward

4. Happy Ending and A Day of Absence. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: None , Douglas Turner Ward

3.84

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A double-volume of two one-act comedies from a leading figure in late 20th century Black theatre. B… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Escape: A Leaf For Freedom by William Wells Brown, John Ernest

5. The Escape: A Leaf For Freedom

By: William Wells Brown , John Ernest

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A well-known nineteenth-century abolitionist and former slave, William Wells Brown was a prolific w… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school
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6. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Getting Out

By: Marsha Norman

3.78

Format: 479 pages,

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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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8. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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9. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school
"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

Cover of Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Gabriele Baldini

10. Cymbeline

By: William Shakespeare , Harold Bloom , Gabriele Baldini

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Cymbeline also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by Willia… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

11. 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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  • theatre
  • plays

12. Rachel

By: None

3.75

Format: 288 pages,

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13. My Life Next Door

By: Huntley Fitzpatrick

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garret… read more

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14. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)

By: Tana French

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen year old kid with a dream of escaping his family's crampe… read more

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15. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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16. Rabbit Hole

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensel… read more

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17. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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18. The African Company Presents Richard III

By: Carlyle Brown

4.20

Format: None pages,

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19. 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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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
"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

20. Ruined

By: Lynn Nottage

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more

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21. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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22. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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23. Seven Guitars

By: August Wilson

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds… read more

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24. 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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25. Venus - Acting Edition

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Parks' latest and most controversial work. read more

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26. Cost of Living

By: Martyna Majok

4.14

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating ac… read more

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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
"That's not a thing I'll ever know. Everything's started over for me—"

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"Self-pity has little currency in these characters' worlds. Humor, however, has much."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall. Cuz everybody falls."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"The shit that happens is not to be understood. That's from the Bible. The shit that happens to you is Not To Be Understood."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

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27. The Wolves

By: Sarah DeLappe

4.27

Format: 175 pages, None

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburba… read more

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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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28. Good Country People

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in Harper's Bazaar, June 1955. This story is now available in the anthologies … read more

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  • read for school
"True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind."

-Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People

Cover of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

29. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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30. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

Similar categories in Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants book and Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness

  • read for school
Cover of Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress

31. Wine in the Wilderness

By: Alice Childress

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Book annotation not available for this Wine in the Childress, Dramatist's Play ServicePublicatio… read more

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  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school

11 Top drama books like Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress

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Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones

Amiri Baraka

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Happy Ending and A Day of Absence. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

None , Douglas Turner Ward

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Getting Out

Marsha Norman

3.78

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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