Three Plays

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By Osonye Tess Onwueme

    Onwueme has meticulously and brilliantly restitched many of these traditional and modern elements into plays that are temporally cyclical, thematically modal, ideorhythmically intricate, and histrionically edifying.

  • Three Plays: A Slight Ache, The Collection [and] The Dwarfs
    Three Plays: A Slight Ache, The Collection [and] The Dwarfs
    By Harold Pinter

    A SLIGHT ACHE is set in an English country garden. A couple invites in an old matchseller. Both husband and wife have bizarre "conversations" with the silent old man. THE...

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By Alan Ayckbourn

    "The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos...

  • Three Plays: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives
    Three Plays: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives
    By Noel Coward

    Presents three comedies of manners by playwright Noel Coward, including "Blithe Spirit," in which a man is visited by the ghost of his first wife; "Hay Fever," the story of a family of bohemians who wreak emotional havoc on weekend visitors ...

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By Nikos Kazantzakis

    Three Plays

  • Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars
    Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars
    By Sean O'Casey

    Three dramatic works illuminate the literary achievements of the controversial early twentieth-century playwright.

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By Chi-Jin Yoo, Ch'i-jin Yu

    In his study Irish Influences on Korean Theatre during the 1920s and 1930s, Won-Jae Jang alerted scholars to a previously unexamined example of intercultural exchange in which Korean scholars looked...

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By Euripides

    'Hippolytus' is pure tragedy - the fatal impact of Phaedra's unreasoning passion for her chaste stepson. Philip Vellacott's translations are now all in verse and his introduction provides an interpretation of Euripides' work.

  • Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker
    By Thornton Wilder

    Three of the greatest plays in American literature collected in one volume This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating foreword by playwright John Guare and an extensive afterword for each play drawing on unpublished letters ...

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By Jean Racine

    Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great story-tellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter.

  • Three Plays: Melissa Arctic, Orange Flower Water, and The Pavilion
    Three Plays: Melissa Arctic, Orange Flower Water, and The Pavilion
    By Craig Wright

    BETH: I'm going to the cabin, you don't know what— B RAD: You're gonna go run to your little fucking boyfriend. BETH: I don't know what you're talking about. B RAD: Oh, fuck you! BETH: No, you think I need someone to run to, ...

  • Three Plays: Countess Julie ; The Outlaw ; The Stronger
    Three Plays: Countess Julie ; The Outlaw ; The Stronger
    By August Strindberg

    The three plays in this volume focus on the tumultuous relationships between men and women, whether they are father and daughter, brother and sister or lovers. Miss Julie is a...

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By George Simon Kaufman, Professor George S Kaufman

    Also included in this volume are "Men at Work" and "Forked Lightning," two essays Kaufman and Hart wrote about each other.

  • Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
    Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
    By Howard Zinn

    Three Plays brings together all this work, including the previously unpublished Daughter of Venus, along with a new introductory essay on political theater, and prefaces to each of the plays.

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By Eugene O'Neill

    A collection of three plays by Eugene O'Neill.

  • Three Plays: The Weavers, Hannele, and The Beaver Coat
    Three Plays: The Weavers, Hannele, and The Beaver Coat
    By Gerhart Hauptmann

    These three plays are superb examples of Hauptmanns wide range and offer students an opportunity to become acquainted with the work of a supremely accomplished writer.

  • Three Plays: Striptease, Repeat Performance, the Prophets
    Three Plays: Striptease, Repeat Performance, the Prophets
    By Slawomir Mrozek

    Slawomir Mrozek, the Polish-born writer whose plays among them Tango and Vatzlav have earned him a reputation as one of Europe's most inventive new playwrights, has written three more plays which confirm his position as a master of modern ...

  • Three Plays
    Three Plays
    By Granville Barker

    We blunder into the best things in life. Then comes the test . . have we faith enough to go on . . to go through with the unknown thing? AMY. [So bored by these metaphysics.] Faith in what? TREBELL . Our vitality.

  • Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants
    Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants
    By Luigi Pirandello

    This is the only one-volume edition of his two most famous plays, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV, and his last unfinished masterpiece The Mountain Giants, in lively and performable new translations that remain faithful ...

  • Three Plays: The Early Metaphysical Plays of Charles Williams
    Three Plays: The Early Metaphysical Plays of Charles Williams
    By Charles Williams

    The editor of his Collected Plays (1963) thought them unworthy of inclusion, but these works so surpass the general run of contemporary productions as to reveal how fresh an artist Williams was.