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The portable Arthur Miller

2003
A collection of writings by Arthur Miller, including his masterpieces "The Crucible," "Death of a Salesman," his play "Broken Glass," as well as three other complete plays and an excerpt from a radio drama.

Take me out

a play
2003
New York Empires star center fielder Darren Lemming announces that he is gay, sparking conflict on the team, particularly from homophobic pitcher Shane Mungitt, and inspiring Lemming's business manager to face his inner demons.

Speed-the-plow

a play
1988
Hollywood studio executives Bob Gould and Charlie Fox are planning to produce a blockbuster movie, when an ambitious office temp tries to convince Gould he should produce a movie with substance instead.

A raisin in the sun, and

The sign in Sidney Brustein's window
1995
Presents twentieth-century American playwright Lorraine Hansberry's most famous works, "A Raisin in the Sun," about inner-city African-American family life, and "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," about a man struggling in a world of racial and social injustice; also includes three essays about the plays.

The glass menagerie

1999
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.

Driving Miss Daisy

1988
Presents the script of the play "Driving Miss Daisy," the story of the strong bond that develops over the course of twenty-five years between an elderly Jewish widow and her chauffeur, an African-American man.

Cat on a hot tin roof

2004
Presents the script of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a wealthy Southern family and the secrets that are revealed when they all gather to celebrate Big Daddy's birthday.

A house not meant to stand

a gothic comedy
2008
A two-act play which Tennessee Williams called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," in which Cornelius McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, is searching for a large amount of moonshine money that his wife Bella has hidden, on the stormy Christmas night they returned from their eldest son's funeral.

Doctor Faustus

a two-text edition (A-text, 1604; B-text, 1616) contexts and sources criticism
2005
Presents the complete text to the seventeenth-century versions of Christopher Marlowe's classic play and includes explanatory notes, twenty-five critical essays, and chronology.

A streetcar named Desire

1974
Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.

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