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This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.

These critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor.

Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates Chekhov's entire theatrical canon, rescuing the humor "lost" in most academic translations while respecting the historical context and original social climate.

Schmidt's translations of Chekhov have been successfully staged all over the U.S. by such theatrical directors as Lee Strasberg,...

"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about," says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, Hellhound on My Trail and Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames. The character could be speaking for his creator, because human imperfection is one of Denis Johnson's specialties -- in his critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and nonfiction, and, now, in two brilliant new plays.

These two works present a dramatized field guide to some of the more dysfunctional and dysphoric inhabitants of the American West: a...

0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture.

Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available with a new preface by Peter Shaffer and a new introduction by the director of the 1998 Broadway revival, Sir Peter Hall. Amadeus is a must-have for classical music...

Seneca: Oedipus. "Tragodie in funf Akten"

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2015

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

Entstanden um 57 n. Chr. Der Text folgt der Ubersetzung von Wenzel Alois Swoboda.

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Gustave Moreau, Odipus und die Sphinx, 1864

Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.

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Seneca: Die Trojanerinnen. "Tragodie in funf Akten"

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2015

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

Entstanden um 53 n. Chr. Der Text folgt der Ubersetzung von Wenzel Alois Swoboda.

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Merry-Joseph Blondel, Hecuba und Polyxena, nach 1814

Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.

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Seneca: Medea. "Tragodie in funf Akten"

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2015

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

Entstanden um 56 n. Chr. Der Text folgt der Ubersetzung von Wenzel Alois Swoboda.

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Frederick Sandys, Medea, 1866-68

Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.

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Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith....

Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies'...