9 Best drama books like Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane, Jens Arup

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Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

By: Henrik Ibsen , James McFarlane , Jens Arup

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's Ho…

If you liked the drama plot in Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane, Jens Arup , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Murder in the Cathedral

By: T.S. Eliot

3.72

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Friendship should be more than biting Time can sever."

-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

"A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident."

-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

"Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended"

-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

"Meanwhile the substance of our first act Will be shadows, and the strife with shadows."

-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

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2. Equus (Penguin Plays)

By: Peter Shaffer

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

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3. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

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4. 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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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 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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5. The Piano Lesson

By: August Wilson

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black exper… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3)

By: William Shakespeare

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part Oneagain pits a rebellion within th… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Falling into You (Falling, #1)

By: Jasinda Wilder

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Nook

I wasn't always in love with Colton Calloway; I was in love with his younger brother, Kyle, first. … read more

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  • fiction
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8. Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

By: Henrik Ibsen , James McFarlane , Jens Arup

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's Ho… read more

Similar categories in Henrik Ibsen's Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder book and Henrik Ibsen's Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

9. Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

By: Aeschylus , Philip Vellacott

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

The first of the great Greek Tragedians, Aeschylus wrote a large number of plays, of which seven su… read more

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10. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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11. 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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12. Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Hingley

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle… read more

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13. Saint Joan

By: George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence , Imogen Stubbs

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the he… read more

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14. The Winter's Tale

By: William Shakespeare

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more

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15. 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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16. King John

By: William Shakespeare , Paul Werstine

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ru… read more

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17. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

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  • drama
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18. Puck's Legacy

By: Katie Hall-May

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dusty lights of a deserted theatre a bored young woman makes a desperate decision, and the l… read more

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"Secrets breed other secrets. That’s how they work."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"Extremism, by its very nature, must always go to its extreme."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"I would give anything to hear him say my name one more time. And anything not to."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"It’s all just coloured water. Of course it is. Don’t you want to taste something real?"

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

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19. The Local School

By: Colin Phelan

4.28

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although many view schools, colleges, and universities as the primary places from which we attain a… read more

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"Water is to India as blood is to the body, with the many rivers functioning as arteries – the Ganges being the aorta – and the monsoon timelessly arriving as a much-needed annual blood transfusion."

-Colin Phelan, The Local School

"Everyone is recharged for the second half, no bell, no forced learning, no principal’s office for tardiness or absenteeism; instead, a voluntary return to our collective pane of learning. Final conve…"

-Colin Phelan, The Local School

"Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the til…"

-Colin Phelan, The Local School

"It is here where education is championed and gratefully pursued as the human right which many in our world classify it to be. For although regarded as a human right, many entitled to education often …"

-Colin Phelan, The Local School

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20. Matching Configurations (Quantum Roots, #3)

By: Kyle Keyes

4.30

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Matching Configurations is the second sequel to Quantum Roots, a light Sci-Fi adventure story that … read more

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  • fiction
  • drama
"Somehow, creation manages to form without species intervention."

-Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations (Quantum Roots, #3)

"Most of us can find our way out of the wilderness without Moses."

-Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations (Quantum Roots, #3)

"Molly is not a Quaker, Jeremy. Quakers don't have tits that big."

-Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations (Quantum Roots, #3)

"You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes."

-Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations (Quantum Roots, #3)

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21. Growing Up American: A Novel

By: Rafael Polo

4.29

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fi… read more

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"When power becomes the ultimate goal, freedom must be shackled."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"At last, he fully understood that change comes from within. It was up to him to get up and fight for a better life."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"His family could not understand the attraction to Marxism. It offered nothing and demanded everything, including your soul."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

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T.S. Eliot

3.72

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Peter Shaffer

3.91

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William Shakespeare

3.72

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Thomas Middleton , William Rowley

3.61

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Suketu Mehta

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Mark Owens , Delia Owens

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