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Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays" brings together Oscar Wilde's most popular plays which first appeared between 1891 and 1895. Despite his relatively short theatrical career, Wilde's plays have enjoyed a sustained popularity. A classic satire of Victorian society, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the author's most frequently performed works. The play trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 327 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter, now an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic and father of three, watches as his youngest son struggles with the family legacy. But together they must face the fact that sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.
43) Arcadia
Author
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the "five hundred acres inclusive of lake" where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the Gothic style: "everything but vampires," as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later. Bernard...
44) Richard II
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's play, "Richard II". This edition features a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare. The play is the first in Shakespeare's tetralogy chronicling the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and covers the battle for power between King Richard and Henry Bolingbroke (who would eventually be Henry IV). Embezzlement, exile and an uprising...
45) A doll's house
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the script of the late nineteenth-century drama that examines the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social conformity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Although one of his lesser known plays, Shakespeare's considerable abilities as a playwright are readily apparent in "Troilus and Cressida." This historical and tragic 'problem play', thought to be inspired by Chaucer, Homer, and some of Shakespeare's history-recording contemporaries, is initially a tale of a man and woman in love during the Trojan War. When Cressida is given to the Greeks in exchange for a prisoner of war, Troilus is determined to...
47) The tempest
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
'The Tempest' has long been regarded as Shakespeare's swan-song, though recent chronologies suggest he went on to compose 'Henry VIII' and 'The Two Noble Kinsmen' after. In its first publication (in the First Folio of 1623), 'The Tempest' appears in the 'Comedies' section. In modern criticism, it is more likely to be described as a 'late play' (written towards the end of what we perceive to be Shakespeare's writing career, c. 1607-13) or a 'romance'...
49) Timon of Athens
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
"Timon of Athens" was first, published in the "First Folio" in 1623 and was likely, written by William Shakespeare in 1605 or 1606. Often regarded as one of the more difficult of Shakespeare's plays to categorize, "Timon of Athens" blends elements of comedy with components of tragedy in Timon's allegorical downfall and death. The play depicts an Athenian man, Timon, who is popular and wealthy and who selflessly gives away his possessions to a large...
50) King Richard III
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the text of Shakespeare's historical drama, and includes a running synopsis of the action, explanation of unfamiliar words, and a selection of related classroom activites.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, art dealer Flanders Kittredge and his wife Ouisa are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment. When an unexpected young guest arrives, claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier, the plot takes some wonderfully unexpected turns. Veering effortlessly from hilarity to pathos, this dazzling play was lauded by The New York Times as “transcendent, magical and a masterwork.”
...Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Original UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 368 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Downton Abbey - a sprawling, lavish Edwardian mansion and park nestled in the lush North Yorkshire landscape - needs an heir. Dame Maggie Smith turns in a show-stopping performance as Violet, the charmingly stubborn Dowager Countess of Grantham, matriarch of Downton and the irrefutable authority on everything. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, the stoic, unflappable Earl of Grantham; Elizabeth McGovern plays his far-sighted America wife, Cora; and...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1954]
Physical Desc
60 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic...
54) Twelve angry men
Author
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A play in which a juror in a murder trial holds out on a guilty verdict and tries to get the other jurors to look at the situation without being swayed by their personal prejudices or biases.
56) Henry IV, part 2
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The play picks up where Henry IV, Part One left off. Its focus is on Prince Hal's journey toward kingship, and his ultimate rejection of Falstaff. However, unlike Part One, Hal's and Falstaff's stories are almost entirely separate, as the two characters meet only twice and very briefly. The tone of much of the play is elegiac, focusing on Falstaff's age and his closeness to death, which parallels that of the increasingly sick king.
57) The country wife
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series, inc
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
xv, 87 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Originally performed and published in 1675, this five-act play parodies the vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London. The plot centers on the eponymous country wife, Margery, whose suspicious husband, Mr. Pinchwife, keeps her isolated. On a rare outing to the theater, Margery encounters the aptly named Mr. Horner. A notorious rake who feigns impotence to trick his way into the intimate company of married ladies, Horner soon schools Margery in the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
In this series, Peter Pascoe and his wife, Ellie, now heavily pregnant, drive to a picturesque Cotsworld village to visit friends, only to find them murdered; a charming serial killer haunts the sleepy Yorkshire town of Wetherton; pest control takes on a new meaning when Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a suspicious rose grower; and Dalziel finds himself under suspicion when an old man is killed by a drunken driver.
60) The Martian
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
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