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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry · 151 pages
This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husba
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson · 111 pages
Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.
Tartuffe
Moliere · 111 pages
Richard Wilbur's verse translation of Tartuffe has been acclaimed as a masterpiece in its own right. Set in rhymed couplets, it captures not only the tone of the original but the dramatic energy as well. Not surprisingly, the play in this translation has been performed regularly over the years. One of Moliere's most popular plays, Tartuffe, written in 1669, tells the story of Orgon, a rich bourge
Curse of the Starving Class
Sam Shepard · 68 pages
(Three acts) This Obie Award-winning play, a darkly comic exploration of the American family psyche, is an expository look at four family members of the Tate family who live on a Californian farm. As the four characters shift into adolescence, adulthood and old age, they face the loss of their farm to debt and developers. Weston is the alcoholic father who has driven his family deep into debt. Ell
The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe, H. Havelock Ellis · 122 pages
This edition is of the best-known play by one of Shakespeare's chief predecessors and early contemporaries, Christopher Marlowe. The Jew of Malta was enormously influential on Shakespeare when he came to write The Merchant of Venice, and for good reason, since the play explores anti-Semitism and revenge. An introduction discusses the significance of this formative and brilliant play, with detailed
The Revenger's Tragedy
Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourneur · 130 pages
A vivid and often violent portrayal of lust and ambition in an Italian court, the play typifies the satiric tone and cynicism of much Jacobean tragedy. The play fell out of favour at some point before the restoration of the theaters in 1660; however, it experienced a revival in the twentieth century among directors and playgoers who appreciated its affinity with the temper of modern times.
Rhinoceros and Other Plays
Eugene Ionesco · 141 pages
A collection of three modern plays by the master of the absurd and member of the French Academy.
Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw · 161 pages
Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I—failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war. The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly-mad Captai
The Complete Plays
Joe Orton · 448 pages
Collects all seven plays by English playwright Joe Orton, published between 1964 and 1967.
Fuenteovejuna
Lope de Vega · 181 pages
Con probabilidad la más conocida y trascendente de las obras teatrales de Lope de Vega, por su explicito contenido social y critico, representado en la rebelión unánime de todo un pueblo contra su comendador. Los hechos se desarrollan a partir del intento del tirano comendador de forzar a Laurencia, hija del alcalde. Una venganza "justa" y una frase para la posteridad ("Fuente Ovejuna lo hizo") ha
Blood Brothers
Willy Russell · 84 pages
Twin brothers are separated at birth. One is given to wealthy Mrs. Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.
An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley · 74 pages
An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley's '