Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas, which exploit fantasy, tragic passion, scenic poetry and cosmic leaps in time ...

This new edition of this German classic contains a full introduction; student-friendly notes and critical commentary in English, on the same page as the text; extensive annotation; and expanded vocabulary section; and a revised page design ...

From Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of The Corrections and Crossroads, comes his razor-sharp translation of Frank Wedekind's major modern play, Spring Awakening.

The preface accuses philosophers of dogmatism, and the first chapter explores this claim. Every great philosophy, Nietzsche asserts, is little more than the personal confession.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poetic drama Faust, A Tragedy is his best-known work and a classic of world literature.

Four plays by Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler and the Master Builder.

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Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a ...

Le pouvoir avait d'ailleurs certainement raison de se méfier, car, au-delà du rire que déclenche le pseudo-communiste Pavel, qui ignore comment se déchiffre l'abréviation PC, mais qui pense pouvoir "arrêter toute la Russie" avec sa ...