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Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays... -
alphabet by Inger Christensen
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet... -
My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglish, Spanish... -
Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published... -
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Trilce by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as 'The Wasteland' and 'The Cantos' in the anglophone world, and all the more amazing for having been composed in remote Peru... -
Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Beckett reduces life, perception, and writing to barest minimums: a few dimly seen, struggling torsos; a hopeless intelligence compulsively seeking to come to terms, in rudimentary yet endlessly varied language, with the human condition they represent. Within these extraordinary limitations, Beckett's verbal ability nonetheless generates great intensity... -
The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA short story by Julio Cortázar... -
The Occasions by Eugenio Montale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's... -
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Selected Poems by John Ashbery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the early virtuosity of Some Trees and The Tennis Court Oath through the triumphs of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror to the brilliance of A Wave - each collection of John Ashbery's verse has broken new ground... -
Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΡΩΜΙΟΣ: Αρκετά!... Και τώρα μια τελευταία διευκρίνιση. Είπα ότι το έργο μας είναι κωμωδία. Αλλά δεν είναι απλώς διότι έτσι γράφτηκε ή διότι το λέμε εμείς. Είναι κωμωδία για έναν άλλο σοβαρότερο και πολύ πιο έγκυρο λόγο: Το δηλώσαμε ως κωμωδία, το υποβάλαμε στη λογοκρισία ως κωμωδία και ενεκρίθη ως κωμωδία δια της υπ’ αριθμόν 199 αποφάσεως... -
The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBegun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity... -
The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCulled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard’s sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire... -
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
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Betrayal by Harold Pinter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended...Categorized as:
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A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, Robert W. Walker
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires. Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar.. -
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate... -
Seven Jewish Children: a play for Gaza by Caryl Churchill
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSubtitled "a play for Gaza" this is British playwright Caryl Churchill's response to the situation in Gaza in January of 2009. Structured as the text of seven statements parents might say to their children either in response to the events or attempting to explain them, they express regret, anger, intelligence, blind hatred, fear, and compassion... -
Reigen. Zehn Dialoge / Liebelei. Schauspiel in drei Akten by Arthur Schnitzler
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSechzig Jahre lang war Arthur Schnitzler Reigen nicht auf der Bühne zu sehen. Nach zwei skandalbegleiteten Aufführungen in Berlin (1920) und Wien (1921) hatte Schnitzler jede weitere Aufführung des Reigen verboten. Nachdem mit dem 31. 12. 19821 - 50 Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors... -
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten in 1902 and produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. It became his first major success, and a hallmark of Russian social realism. The play depicts a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.When it first appeared, The Lower Depths was criticized for its pessimism and ambiguous ethical message... -
El gesticulador: Pieza para demagogos en tres actos by Rodolfo Usigli
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn intermediate-level reader on the turbulence that followed the Mexican Revolution in 1910... -
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The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA modern verse play dealing with the problem of man’s guilt and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanity. “What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has here been realized.... This is the finest verse play since the Elizabethans” (New York Times)... -
Historia De Una Escalera by Antonio Buero Vallejo
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHistoria de una escalera, originalmente llamada La escalera, poseía el mismo título de una obra de Eusebio García Luengo, y por lo tanto, debió adoptarse el primer nombre mencionado. Es una tragedia, de alto contenido social, donde se expone la realidad de ciertos individuos, atados a su condición miserable, de la que les es imposible salir... -
My Century by Günter Grass
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a work of great originality, Germany's most eminent writer examines the victories and terrors of the twentieth century, a period of astounding change for mankind. Great events and seemingly trivial occurrences, technical developments and scientific achievements, war and disasters, and new beginnings, all unfold to display our century in its glory and grimness... -
The Maids by Jean Genet
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSolange and Claire are two housemaids who construct elaborate sadomasochistic rituals when their mistress (Madame) is away. The focus of their role-playing is the murder of Madame and they take turns portraying both sides of the power divide... -
Valparaiso by Don DeLillo
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. This is Don DeLillo's second play and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology. This is the way we talk to each other today... -
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRay male, 4 femaleInterior SetThis compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck. They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city...
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