The Caretaker
By: Harold Pinter
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow…
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1. The Threepenny Opera
By: Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim
3.89
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his … read more
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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- 20th century
- plays
- drama
"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?"-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"1.Tanrı: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayağılık, pislik! Doğayı da katletmişler.Güzelim ağaçları tellerle idam etmişler.Dağların ötesinde duman bulutlarından göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsü…"-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
2. The Chairs
By: Eugène Ionesco , Martin Crimp
3.85
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered st… read more
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- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more
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- 20th century
- plays
- drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Arms and the Man
By: George Bernard Shaw
4.06
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Arms and the Manis a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and publ… read more
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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
5. Top Girls
By: Caryl Churchill
3.58
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more
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- theatre
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- 20th century
- plays
- drama
6. Mourning Becomes Electra
By: Eugene O'Neill
3.97
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
A three-part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy, the plays are set in New England in 1865, just… read more
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- theatre
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- 20th century
- plays
- drama
"LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love!"-Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra
"LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply-- up toward the sun-- everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow..."-Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra
"LAVINIA: I want to feel love! Love is all beautiful! I never used to know that! I was a fool! We'll be married soon... We'll make an island for ourselves on land and we'll have children and love them…"-Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra
7. Our Country's Good
By: Timberlake Wertenbaker
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An Australian penal colony in 1789. A young lieutenant directs rehearsals of the Restoration comedy… read more
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- theatre
- plays
- drama
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9. 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
- 20th century
- plays
- drama
"Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver."-Eugène Ionesco, La Cantatrice chauve
10. 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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- plays
- classics
- fiction
11. 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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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- 20th century
- plays
- drama
12. The Zoo Story
By: Edward Albee
3.90
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written… read more
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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- 20th century
- plays
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"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
13. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
By: Adrian Mitchell , Peter Weiss , Peter Brook , Geoffrey Skelton , None
4.13
Format: 277 pages,
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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
14. Jerusalem
By: Jez Butterworth
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English coun… read more
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- theatre
- plays
- fiction
- drama
15. 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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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
16. 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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- classics
- theatre
- fiction
- plays
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17. The Caretaker
By: Harold Pinter
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- theatre
- fiction
- 20th century
- plays
- drama
18. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
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19. 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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20. Suddenly Last Summer
By: Tennessee Williams
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic vo… read more
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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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- theatre
- fiction
- 20th century
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- drama
"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
24. The Rape of the Lock
By: Alexander Pope
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more
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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. Abigail's Party
By: Mike Leigh
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Mike Leigh. Forty years on from its first perfo… read more
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29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
"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
"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
"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
