11 Top plays books like Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose by John Patrick Shanley

Cover of Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose by John Patrick Shanley

Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose

By: John Patrick Shanley

3.52

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

FOUR DOGS AND A BONE. Brenda, a seemingly guileless young actress, takes a meeting with Bradley, a …

If you liked the plays plot in Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose by John Patrick Shanley , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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2. 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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  • theatre
  • 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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3. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

Similar categories in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman book and John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose

  • theatre
  • plays
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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4. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

Similar categories in Martin Sorrell's Tartuffe book and John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose

  • theatre
  • plays
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5. Dinner With Friends

By: Donald Margulies , Matthew Arkin , None , None , None , None

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Filled with humor, warmth, insight and wisdom, Dinner w… read more

Similar categories in Donald Margulies's Dinner With Friends book and John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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6. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. The Stepford Wives

By: Ira Levin

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more

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8. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

Similar categories in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate book and John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

9. True West

By: Sam Shepard

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

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10. Gruesome Playground Injuries

By: Rajiv Joseph

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The fourth play written by playwright Rajiv Joseph follows the lives of two best friends tumultuous… read more

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11. The Effect

By: Lucy Prebble

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more

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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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

Similar categories in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House book and John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose

  • theatre
  • 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

15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. An Ideal Husband

By: Oscar Wilde

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one n… read more

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19. 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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  • plays
  • drama
"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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20. Dry Land

By: Ruby Rae Spiegel

4.04

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. DRY LAND is a … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose by John Patrick Shanley

21. Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose

By: John Patrick Shanley

3.52

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

FOUR DOGS AND A BONE. Brenda, a seemingly guileless young actress, takes a meeting with Bradley, a … read more

Similar categories in John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose book and John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

9 must-read drama books like Four Dogs and a Bone & The Wild Goose by John Patrick Shanley

Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Dinner With Friends

Donald Margulies , Matthew Arkin , None , None , None , None

3.65

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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Between Riverside and Crazy

Stephen Adly Guirgis

3.81

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Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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