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The life of Henry V

1995
Contains that text of the English history play that dramatizes the fifteenth-century conflict between the royal families of York and Lancaster, and includes full explanatory notes on pages facing the text, an introduction to Shakespeare's language, and essays about his life, theater, and the publication of his works.

The tragedy of King Richard the Second

with new and updated critical essays and a revised bibliography
1999
Contains the full text to Shakespeare's "Richard II" with an overview of Shakespeare's life, notes on the play's text, dramatic criticism from Shakespearean scholars, and a stage and screen history of the play.

Langston, a play

1982
Poet Langston Hughes visits a church basement where a drama group is rehearsing one of his plays, and uses the actors to recreate scenes from his early life.

Becket

or, The honor of God
1960
Portrays the conflict of loyalties to church and state as they influenced the lives of two powerful men in English history.

Dr. Faustus

2008
Presents the script of the sixteenth-century drama about scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power, with an introduction to the play, its stage history, textual problems, and historical and cultural context.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

the manga edition
2008
A manga adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two young people from noble Veronese houses whose love for one another is doomed by the long-standing feud between their families.

Peter Shaffer's Amadeus

1981
Presents the text of the play "Amadeus," based upon the life of eighteenth-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Cyrano de Bergerac

an heroic comedy in five acts
1981
An English translation of the nineteenth century French play about Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant swordsman who hides his love for his cousin Roxane out of fear she will reject him because of his looks.

Cyrano de Bergerac

a heroic comedy in five acts
2003
A translation of the French drama set in seventeenth-century France telling of Cyrano de Bergerac's secret love for Roxane.

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