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A Doll’s HouseA Doll’s House 
by Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen's best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women's rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house."

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The Importance of Being EarnestThe Importance of Being Earnest 
by Oscar Wilde
Wilde's witty and buoyant comedy of manners, filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams, reprinted from an authoritative British edition. Considered Wilde's most perfect work.


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PygmalionPygmalion 
by George Bernard Shaw
A success on the stage, a popular film and a musical hit (My Fair Lady), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language.


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AntigoneAntigone 
by Sophocles
Filled with passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful and often-performed Greek drama reveals the grim fate that befalls the children of Oedipus. Footnotes.


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Dr. FaustusDr. Faustus 
by Christopher Marlowe
One of the glories of Elizabethan drama: Marlowe's powerful retelling of the story of the learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Footnotes.


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HamletHamlet 
by William Shakespeare
The quintessential Shakespearean tragedy, whose highly charged confrontations and anguished soliloquies probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art. Reprinted from an authoritative British edition complete with illuminating footnotes.


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3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Comedy, tragedy, and history are masterfully represented in this anthology of Shakespeare's works. Features A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard III. Includes informative footnotes.


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All's Well That Ends WellAll's Well That Ends Well
by William Shakespeare
The daughter of a renowned physician pursues her passion for an elusive bridegroom through a comic maze of mistaken identities, betrayals, repentance, and dramatic revelation. An extraordinary combination of romantic melodrama and outright farce.


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AntigoneAntigone
by Sophocles
Filled with passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful and often-performed Greek drama reveals the grim fate that befalls the children of Oedipus. Footnotes.



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Arms and the ManArms and the Man
by George Bernard Shaw
One of Shaw's most popular comedies, deflating romantic misconceptions of love and warfare. Reprinted from an authoritative early edition, complete with Shaw's preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.



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As You Like ItAs You Like It
by William Shakespeare
When forbidden romance enters their lives, two noblewomen assume disguises and flee to the Forest of Arden, where they encounter friendly outlaws and wise fools. This comedy features memorable characters and incomparable poetry.



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BacchaeBacchae
by Euripides
Classic Greek tragedy concerns the catastrophe that ensues when the King of Thebes, Pentheus, imprisons Dionysus and attempts to suppress his cult. Striking scenes, frenzied emotion, choral songs of power and beauty.



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The Beggar’s OperaThe Beggar’s Opera
by John Gay
A receiver of stolen goods informs on his chief supplier, setting in motion an increasingly absurd turn of events. This satirical 1728 play was to become the prototype for Threepenny Opera.



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The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
Classic of world drama concerns passing of semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevskaya. Showcases Chekhov's rich sensitivities as an observer of human nature.


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The Comedy of ErrorsThe Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
Two sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest comedic efforts.


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CoriolanusCoriolanus
by William Shakespeare
A military hero of ancient Rome attempts to shift from his career as a general to become a politician — a disastrous move that results in his leading an attack on Rome.


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Cyrano de BergeracCyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
A quarrelsome, hot-tempered, and unattractive swordsman falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful woman and woos her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor. A witty and eloquent drama.



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A Doll’s HouseA Doll’s House
by Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen's best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women's rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house."


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Don Juan in Hell: From Man and SupermanDon Juan in Hell: From Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw
This dream episode from Man and Superman forms a play within the play, consisting of a dramatic reading in which the Devil himself comments on heaven and hell, good and evil, and human purpose.



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Dr. FaustusDr. Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
One of the glories of Elizabethan drama: Marlowe's powerful retelling of the story of the learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Footnotes.



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The Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of Malfi
by John Webster
The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy concerning the secret marriage of a noblewoman and a commoner.



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ElectraElectra
by Sophocles
Masterpiece of drama concerns the revenge Electra takes on her mother for the murder of her father. One of the best-known heroines of all drama and a towering figure of Greek tragedy.



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An Enemy of the PeopleAn Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen
When the famous and financially successful baths in his home town are contaminated, the local doctor insists they be shut down for expensive repairs, causing upheaval among the townsfolk.


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EverymanEveryman
by Anonymous
The most durable of medieval morality plays, along with 3 other classics: The Second Shepherd’s Play, Noah’s Flood and Hickscorner. All from standard texts.



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ExilesExiles
by James Joyce
This 3-act play first appeared in 1918 and presents an imaginative reconstruction of Joyce's own life. The protagonist, an Irish writer, has returned from abroad and experiences an estrangement from society.


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The FatherThe Father
by August Strindberg
Highly emotional study of marital upheaval and a no-holds-barred struggle between man and woman. One of the most gripping psychological dramas of modern theater. Biographical Note.



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