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  • Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love...
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  • Importance of Being Earnest

    Importance of Being Earnest

    Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of...
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  • Antony and Cleopatra (The Pelican Shakespeare) cover image

    Antony and Cleopatra

    One of Shakespeare’s great tragedies—a sweeping tale of politics, passion and power set against the backdrop of ancient Rome and Egypt. At its heart is the doomed love between Mark Antony, a Roman general torn between duty and desire, and Cleopatra, the fiercely intelligent...
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    The Glass Menagerie

    No play in the modern theater has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere...
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  • Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone cover image

    Oedipus Trilogy

    Here are Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone in fresh new versions for contemporary readers and audiences. Each has been the basis for groundbreaking theatrical performances by Theater of War Productions, in which actors present dramatic readings, followed by town hall-style discussions. These forums are designed to...
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  • King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare) cover image

    King Lear

    This edition of King Lear presents a conflated text, combining the 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts, edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia.  The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and...
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  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire remains one of the most powerful works in American theater, decades after its groundbreaking 1947 debut. Set in the sweltering streets of New Orleans, the play follows the fragile and fading Blanche DuBois, who seeks refuge in the...
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  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    The definitive text of this American classic―reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person."Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers...
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  • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton And Other One-Act Plays

    27 Wagons Full of Cotton And Other One-Act Plays

    This compelling collection of one-act plays showcases Tennessee’s mastery of poetic storytelling through thirteen unforgettable snapshots of American life. These one-acts—ranging from the haunting, slow-burn tension of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton to the aching loneliness of The Lady of Larkspur Lotion—distill raw emotion...
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  • Collected Plays

    Collected Plays

    Including eighteen plays, some known by all and others that will come as discoveries to many readers, The Penguin Arthur Miller is a collectible treasure for fans of Miller's drama and an indispensable resource for students of the theatre. In the history of postwar...
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  • Macbeth

    Macbeth

    This edition of Macbeth is edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel. and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series...
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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A sparkling romantic comedy where love tangles, mischief reigns, and reality blurs with magic. In Athens, young lovers find themselves caught in a web of desire and duty. Hermia loves Lysander who loves her right back, but her father demands she marry Demetrius—who is...
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  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

    This edition of Hamlet is edited with an introduction by series editor A. R. Braunmuller and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare...
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  • Pygmalion

    Pygmalion

    When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance...
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  • Selected Plays

    Selected Plays

    Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful...
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  • Plays

    Plays

    The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in...
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  • The Crucible

    The Crucible

    One of the true masterpieces of twentieth-century American theater, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving, but that compels readers to...
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  • Ideal Husband

    Ideal Husband

    "An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in the present, and takes place over the course of...
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