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Douglas Coupland - Life After God: The Play

This compellingly innovative collection of stories, from the author of Generation X and Shampoo Planet, takes readers into worlds that exist but are ...

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Latest review by thebigstick Jan 6, 2004

"There are two kinds of books that I like to read; one being the disposable kind that are entertainin..." Read full review

Hamlet

When the ghost of his father appears to Prince Hamlet of Denmark, urging him to avenge his murder upon his uncle, the tragic flaw of indecision leads ...

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Latest review by itsmeawesome Mar 31, 2012

"Of what I have read about the book "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, I have found it very endearing a..." Read full review

William Shakespeare - Richard III

In THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III, Shakespeare brilliantly dramatizes the terrible rise of Richard of Gloucester to the throne of England, and the ...

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Latest review by Redlass Nov 15, 2000

"How does one review William Shakespeare, the Bard, arguably the greatest playwright of all time? Tha..." Read full review

William Shakespeare and A. L. Rowse - The Comedy of Errors: Modern Text With Introduction

This play has been popular on the stage during the last three centuries and has proved itself admirable suited to adaptation as pure farce and ...

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Latest review by sarahhughes Jan 2, 2000

"Once again, Shakespeare uses his typical devices of mistaken identity, shrewish women, and foolish s..." Read full review

Sophocles, William-Alan Landes, Michael Townsend, R.D. Dawe, Eugene Hannes Falk - Antigone

Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a traitor.

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Latest review by Pantagruel Feb 15, 2010

"Antigone is the first of three extant plays Sophocles wrote about the House of Oedipus, though in te..." Read full review

HaroldHarold Pinter - The Caretaker

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Latest review by dierckx Sep 5, 2005

"'The Caretaker' (play) by Harold Pinter. Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. In 1995 he won th..." Read full review

George Bernard Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession: A Play in Four Act

The wealthy, "respectable" title character's profession is the world's oldest, but Mrs. Warren is unprepared for the reaction of her daughter Vivie ...

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Latest review by lorenmgreen Apr 11, 2001

"Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was first met with intensive social mistrust, being barred f..." Read full review

William Shakespeare, Arkangel Cast, Penny Downie - The Merry Wives of Windsor

Sir John Falstaff, the lovable rogue, is brought back from his death in Henry V to set this farce in motion. Falstaff (Anthony Quayle), finding ...

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Latest review by brett777 Apr 25, 2004

"The Merry Wives of Windsor is perhaps Shakespeares least known play. It is however one of the funni..." Read full review

Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer

The best-loved English comedy of the 18-century. Regularly revived on stage and prescribed on syllabuses.

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Latest review by mebablah Aug 24, 2008

"She Stoops to Conquer or, The mistakes of a night.This drama by Oliver Goldsmith is composed of five..." Read full review

Henrik Ibsen, S.H. Landes, Lanford Wilson, August Strindberg - Ghosts: A Family Drama in Three Acts and Miss Julia A Naturalistic Tragedy

A play of stinging contemporaneity--about religious and societal hypocrisy, guilt that feeds on innocence, ther terror of the inevitable, and the ...

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Latest review by lizf Oct 1, 2001

"It is very easy to slip into the proud and slightly arrogant feeling that we are the first to exper..." Read full review

T. S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral

Eliot's most famous play, a poetic religious drama based on the murder of Thomas ` Becket, was commissioned for the 1935 Canterbury Festival. It used ...

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Latest review by astromish Jul 15, 2003

"The Murder in the Cathedral by T. S Eliot is usually sold as a 65 page 6x 4 book. A book analy..." Read full review

Peter Shaffer - Equus: A Play

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Latest review by JiggyJay Dec 11, 2009

"A few years ago I sat down to read Equus, Peter Shaffer's supposed masterpiece before he penned Amad..." Read full review

Peter Shaffer - Peter Shaffer's Amadeus

<p>0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, <i>Amadeus</i> was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the ...

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Latest review by donnamr Jun 27, 2008

"Most people know Peter Shaffer&#146s Amadeus from the Academy Award-winning movie. That film was a w..." Read full review

William Shakespeare and Gordon McMullan - Henry IV. Part 2: Part II

A revised edition of Shakespeare's classic history play about the final months in the life of England's King Henry IV describes his reconciliation ...

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Latest review by renewal2 May 21, 2003

"I am hooked. I am just plain tired of thick, formula, $8.95, action thrillers. I like Lee..." Read full review

Much Ado About Nothing: Notes

The critically acclaimed series from the leading center for Shakespearean studies presents freshly edited texts of each play based on the earliest ...

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Latest review by dianalynnxk May 13, 2001

"Ever since I was a little girl I've loved this story. The story of two couples, one forced together..." Read full review

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