This comprehensive volume contains nine of the most important, most indispensable plays of the modern theater. What Harold Clurman has done in this seminal collection is to create for us a portrait of the progress and turmoil of the twentieth century.

The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text... [More...]

A ten-minute play is a streak of theatrical lightning. It doesn't last long, but its power can stand your hair on end. This splendid anthology contains enough wattage to light up a small city. For in its pages, thirty-two of our finest playwrights hone... [More...]

Five of the greatest, most studied, and most performed Greek tragedies, each in an outstanding translation, include: "Oedipus Rex and "Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), in which the much-admired playwright explores the individual's search... [More...]

Highlights political conundrums and community history and the unique customs of small towns and large cities.

Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.

The most significant works in recent New Zealand theatre, "Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, and "The Pickle King form a loose trilogy connected by theme and theatrical style that explores three eternal questions: W"ill I find love? How can I find... [More...]

"Anthracite!" brings together six unjustly neglected plays that grippingly portray the world of Appalachian coal mining. Deftly revealing the injustice and suffering of mining life early in the twentieth century, the plays in this collection are an... [More...]