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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world.
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Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Virgil to fro… -
Orbital
A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space st…
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Bodas de sangre
El tema de esta obra surgió a raíz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la víspera de la boda de la mujer con otro hombre. García Lorca convierte la realidad en poesía. En su ob…
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The Effect (Modern Plays)
You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a control. This is all just you.
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The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, … -
King Lear
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suf…
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The Rover
"The Rover" or "The Banish'd Cavaliers" is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn. It is a revision of Thomas Killigrew's play "Thomaso", or "The Wanderer" (1664), and fe…
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The Seagull
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation.
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When it first opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastro… -
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat won every major award for best new play of the the Tony,…
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As You Like It
Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after…
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Richard II
Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced repres…
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Yerma
Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play, following a woman's Herculean struggle a…
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Things I Know to be True
Bob and Fran have worked hard to give their four children the opportunities they never had. Now, with the kids ready to make lives of their own, it's time to sit back and smell the roses. But the chan…
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The Merchant of Venice
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who i…
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Greek Lessons
“Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night.”
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In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language tea… -
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Felicity
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems
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“If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,” Mary Oliver once said in … -
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Spring's Awakening
Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized by the world around him, and especially by his tea…
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