comedies

Presents the script of Amy and David Sedaris's play "The Book of Liz" in which Sister Elizabeth Donderstock, ignored and unappreciated, leaves the Squeamish order where she was responsible for making the cheese balls that sustained the religious community, and takes a job at a family restaurant where everything goes swimmingly until she is offered a promotion to manager--if she can only get her sweating problem fixed.

Contains the text of the eighteenth century English comedy.

A modern translation of Aristophanes's 411 B.C. drama "Lysistrata," in which an Athenian woman leads her fellow Greek wives in a sex strike until their husbands stop warring with each other; includes an introduction, notes, and a glossary.

A collection of classic Greek and Roman plays, including "Lysistrata", "The Birds", "The Grouch", "The Menaechmi", "Mostellaria", and "The Self-Tormentor".

Alceste is against duplicity and false flattery, but the woman he loves, C?lim?ne, is the embodiment of all that he abhors which makes this a comedy of manners.

Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century comedy of mixed identity about a man who, as a child, was absentmindedly placed in a handbag and left at the railroad station; and includes modern spelling, a critical introduction, a biography of author Oscar Wilde, and other reference information.

An adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" that enables students to better understand the play and its characters.