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The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
Volume One
Edward Albee
This first volume of this three volume collection contains the eight plays written
by Albee during his early years as a playwright, from 1958 through 1965. Hardcover,
637 pp. $67.50.
The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
Volume 2: 1966-77
Edward Albee
Edward Albee's oeuvre consists of more than twenty-six plays, the earliest
of which were collected in Volume 1 of his Collected Plays. Volume 2 contains
the nine plays written by Albee in the period between 1966 and 1977. These
range from the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Delicate Balance to
the brilliant and complex short plays Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao
Tse-Tung to his second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Seascape,
to the scintillating one-act comedy Counting the Ways, and
closing with the controversial Lady from Dubuque. Hardcover,
669 pp. $65.00.
The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
Volume 3 1978-2003
Edward Albee
This third volume of the Complete Albee brings the reader some of his most iconoclastic
and influential plays. Plays included are Lolita; The
Who Had Three Arms; Finding the Sun; Marriage
Play; Three Tall Women; Fragments (A Sit Around); The
Play About the Baby; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2001
Tony Award); Occupant and Knock! Knock! Who's There? Hardcover,
700 pp. $58.50.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
This dazzling work of gut wrenching dark comedy presents the most memorable of
married couples in a searing night of dangerous fun and games with a pawn like
other couple who innocently become their weapons in the savaging of each other
and their life together. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable
revelation provides a climactic shock of recognition at bond and bondage of their
love. Hardcover, 243 pp. $38.00.
Kaufman & Co.
George S. Kaufman and others
This is the most comprehensive collection of plays by George
S. Kaufman and his collaborators ever assembled: Dinner at Eight, The
Royal Family, Animal Crackers, June Moon, The
Man Who Came to Dinner, Of Thee I Sing, Once in a Lifetime, Stage
Door, and You Can't Take It With You. Hardcover. $51.00.
Arsenic
and Old Lace
Joseph Kesserling
The story of the charming
and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains
of socially and religiously acceptable roomers and the antics of
their nephews, Teddy, who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, and Mortimer,
a manic theater critic. A must for all non professional groups;
a ready made comedy hit. $9.99.
Arthur Miller Collected Plays 1944 -1961
Tony Kushner, one of America's most acclaimed living playwrights is the editor
of this inaugural volume of the collected edition of Miller's plays. This volume
contains The Man Who Had All the Luck, All My Sons, Death
of a Salesman, An Enemy of the People, The
Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View
from the Bridge ( 1 Act & 2 Act Versions), and The Misfits (
a novella). Also contains a chronology, notes on the text and notes. $49.00.
Resurrection Blues
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller's penultimate play is a darkly comic satirical allegory that
poses the question: What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world
today? Resurrection Blues asserts the interconnectedness of
our actions and each person's culpability in world events; it is ultimately
a comedic and tragic satire of precarious morals in our media saturated age.
Softcover, 112 pp. $15.50.
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill
This is the sequel to O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. Moon picks
up eleven years after the original as Jim Tyrone grasps at his last
chance at love under the full moonlight. Josie Hogan, the play's
exuberant heroine,
tries to lift the stake of guilt and sorrow from Tyrone's heart as
she allows herself to hope again for love.
Softcover, 149 pp. $16.95.
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits
who endlessly discuss but never act on any of their dreams, and on Hickey, the
traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. Softcover,
219 pp. $16.95.
Eugene O'Neill: Early Plays
Eugene O'Neill
Now collected for the first time in a single volume, this selection of
Eugene O'Neill's seminal early work was written between 1914 and 1921
and produced
for the stage between 1916 and 1922: seven one-act plays (The
Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In
the Zone, The
Long Voyage Home, He,
Where the Cross is Made, and The Rope)
and five full-length plays (Beyond the Horizon, The
Straw,
Anna Christie, and the classics The Emperor Jones and The
Hairy Ape). Softcover, 395 pp. $18.00.
A Touch of the Poet & More Stately Mansions
Eugene O'Neill
A Touch of the Poet (M-7, F-3) and More Stately Mansions (M-10, F-3)
-- the only 2 plays in Eugene O'Neill's never-completed 11-part series about
the psychological and economic account of American life -- are brought together
for the first time
in this paperback edition. Softcover, 568 pp. $23.95.
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
Exposes the human need for
illusion as an antidote to despair. $17.95.
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