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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorJulius Caesar
William Shakespeare · 136 pages
The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol · 105 pages
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht · 112 pages
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
The Visit
Friedrich Durrenmatt · 109 pages
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles · 115 pages
Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of a classic tragedy, noticeably containing an emphasis on how Oedipus's own faults contribute to the tragic hero's downfall, as opposed to having fate be the sole cause. Over the centuries, Oedipus Rex
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Dario Fo, Joseph Farrell · 73 pages
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
Tony Kushner · 128 pages
Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner of the 1993 Tony Award for Best Play. In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former dr
Faust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, Parts 1-2
Christopher Marlowe · 544 pages
The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman · 107 pages
An acting edition of the 1939 drama in which brothers Oscar and Ben Hubbard steal money from their ailing brother-in-law in order to fund a cotton mill, only to be caught by their sister Regina who demands they give her a seventy-five percent share of the business in exchange for keeping them out of prison.
In the First Circle
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 741 pages
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
Tennessee Williams · 316 pages
Brand
Henrik Ibsen, Geoffrey Hill · 234 pages
Contains background information about Ibsen and his work.
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler · 254 pages
"The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon--the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule--is now restored and in a completely new translation. Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic"--
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Paul Zindel · 102 pages
An embittered widow lives with her teenage daughters in a ramshackle house where she makes a living by nursing an elderly invalid. Alternately charming and abrasive, Beatrice is selfish like her elder daughter, Ruth, who suffers from convulsions. The younger daughter, Matilda, is an eccentric outcast who earns respect by winning top honors at school for her science fair project.
Master Harold...and the boys
Athol Fugard · 61 pages
"Master Harold," or Hally, learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital and struggles with his emotions during a confrontation with the two black men who help in the family's restaurant in 1950s South Africa.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard · 126 pages
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of