The work of the world's greatest dramatist is edited by outstanding scholars and presented here, along with an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater, a special note on the sources from which Shakespeare derived this work, dramatic criticism, commentaries, and much more. ...

Stuart's hilarious satire of the male-dominated workplace is set in a baby formula company, where the men even determine the feeding and care of infants. But when Gina, a mother who breast-feeds, joins the staff, things -begin to change: The company falls under political sabotage, orders are rerouted, the building is shut down. The boss begins to see devil shadow child assassins. A wonderful play. ...

In the inimitable Custer and Hoose style, here are twelve short scripts about Family and Friends, Family and Seasons, and Other Spiritual Matters.
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Based on historical people and real events, Miller's classic play about the witch hunts and trials in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror which Miller uses to reflect the anti-Communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the U.S. ...

"The Duke of Palermo" is a comedy about American academic life which is an intergral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction.<BR> ...

Playwrights from the South have always figured largely in the Actors Theatre of Lousiville's contribution of new work to the repertoire of American dramatic literature. What better way to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Humana New Festival of American Plays. ...

The twenty-first century. The past has been abolished and geography-even the sky-is changed. A woman lives in a vast desert of white rubble. A tiny group of people come to her seeking a hiding place but, instead, are exposed to the deepest questions of human drama, the questions of classical theatre itself. Elemental, stark, and with a ruthless logic, Bond's new play takes both mind and body to the very edge of experience. Edward Bond is "a ...

In The End of Me Old Cigar, leading media figures get together for not such shocking reasons as it might first appear. A Sense of Detachment satirizes our heartless, profiteering society. A Place Calling Itself Rome is a powerful reworking of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The television play Jill and Jack is a comic gem that satirizes the conventions of its own genre. ...

Corker uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous nineteenth century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. Opening with the extended family's awkward attendance at "Serena", aging flower child of the sixties' funeral, the symbolic conflicts build quickly. Serena's sister "Merit", the hard driving, social program budget slashing female political aparatchik and her husband "Leonard", a lion of free enterprise, ...

Here for the first time are collected in Spanish three of the best-known plays of Carlos Morton, one of the most celebrated and widely produced Hispanic-American playwrights living today.<P>Rancho Hollywood: Sueno de California (translated by Iona Weissberg) pointedly satirizes film stereotypes of Latinos.<P>Johnny Tenorio: Acto teatral chicano (translated by Eduardo Rodriguez Solis) places the centuries-old Don Juan legend into a ...