19 must-read plays books like Quartett by Heiner Müller

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Quartett

By: Heiner Müller

3.89

Format: 29 pages, Perfect Paperback

German

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1. Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

By: David Ball , Michael Langham , David Ball

4.11

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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2. La Cantatrice chauve

By: Eugène Ionesco

3.76

Format: 149 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tout le monde la connaît. Peu peuvent l'expliquer. C'est ce que fait à merveille Emmanuel Jacquart,… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver."

-Eugène Ionesco, La Cantatrice chauve

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3. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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4. Blasted

By: Sarah Kane

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
Cover of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, William Archer

5. Hedda Gabler

By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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6. 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
  • fiction
  • plays
"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 Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley, Charles Laughton

7. Galileo

By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • theatre
  • plays
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8. Dans la solitude des champs de coton

By: Bernard-Marie Koltès

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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9. Attempts on Her Life

By: Martin Crimp

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attemp… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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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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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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11. Six Characters in Search of an Author

By: Luigi Pirandello , Edward Storer

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote dramas and satires t… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
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12. Mother Courage and Her Children

By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • theatre
  • plays
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13. Happy Days

By: Samuel Beckett

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

14. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

15. 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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16. Ubu Roi

By: Barbara Wright , Alfred Jarry , Franciszka Themerson

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main chara… read more

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17. 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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18. Kaspar

By: Peter Handke

4.12

Format: 260 pages,

Kaspar, Peter Handke's first full-length drama--hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and co… read more

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19. Les Bonnes

By: Jean Genet

3.60

Format: 222 pages, Pocket Book

The Maids (Les Bonnes) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Pari… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens."

-Jean Genet, Les Bonnes

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20. 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
  • fiction
  • plays
"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

21. Baal

By: Bertolt Brecht

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

BAAL, which renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) wrote when he was in college, is the pro… read more

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22. Spring's Awakening

By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more

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23. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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24. La vida es sueño

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more

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25. Juste la fin du monde

By: Jean-Luc Lagarce

3.20

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Le fils retourne dans sa famille pour l'informer de sa mort prochaine. Ce sont les retrouvailles av… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays

26. Tango

By: Sławomir Mrożek

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Tango to dramat o wspolczesnym spoleczenstwie, w ktorym panuje konformizm, anarchia, brak postaw. F… read more

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27. The Lonesome West

By: Martin McDonagh

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Unknown Binding

Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find … read more

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28. The Lying Life of Adults

By: Elena Ferrante

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was u… read more

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"I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels."

-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

"As coisas feias que você não conta se tornam cães que comem a sua cabeça enquanto você dorme."

-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

"...the dead are objects that have broken, a television, the radio, the mixer, and the best thing is to remember them as they were when they were working, because the only acceptable tomb is memory."

-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

"I’m still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it’s a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical."

-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

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29. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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30. Quartett

By: Heiner Müller

3.89

Format: 29 pages, Perfect Paperback

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • theatre
  • plays
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31. Der Theatermacher

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.72

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

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  • german literature
  • theatre
  • plays

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La Cantatrice chauve

Eugène Ionesco

3.76

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3.63

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