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The Play Called the Four Pp

(1 Ratings)
Author:John Heywood  Review by:CatherineGallagher
An Interlude, a one-act farce, featuring four medieval types arguing about who had the most to do with getting people into Heaven. Read Review
Published: September 18, 2009 Visits: 10 words : 300

The Rehearsal (3rd Edition)

(1 Ratings)
Authors:George Villiers; 2nd Duke of Buckingham; Thomas Sprat; Samuel Butler; Martin Clifford  Summary by:CatherineGallagher
An hilarious satire on plays and playwrights; revised often to mock different plays and their authors. The Duke wrote it with three collaborators. Read Summary
Published: September 18, 2009 Visits: 21 words : 300

Eumenides, or the Furies

(1 Ratings)
Authors:Aeschylus; G. M. Cookson (translator in GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD)  Summary by:CatherineGallagher
The resolving play in the trilogy about Agamemnon and Orestes vengeance for his death. Read Summary
Published: September 18, 2009 Visits: 17 words : 600

The Farce of the Worthy Master Pierre Patelin

(1 Ratings)
Authors:Anonymous; M. Jagendorf (translator)  Summary by:CatherineGallagher
An hilarious French farce; one of the earliest secular comedies, dating from the 1400s. Read Summary
Published: September 18, 2009 Visits: 6 words : 300

The Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

(1 Ratings)
Author:Robert Greene  Summary by:CatherineGallagher
A delightful romantic comedy from the early English theater. Read Summary
Published: September 18, 2009 Visits: 32 words : 300

Clizia

(2 Ratings)
Author:Niccolo Machiavelli  Summary by:CatherineGallagher
A comedy by Machiavelli, based on classical models, in which the heroine never appears. Read Summary
Published: September 1, 2009 Visits: 23 words : 600

The Bald Soprano: Anti-Play (La Cantatrice Chauve)

(1 Ratings)
Authors:Eugene Ionescu; Donald Allen; translator  Summary by:CatherineGallagher
One of the earliest absurdist works in the theatre. Read Summary
Published: August 27, 2009 Visits: 65 words : 300

The Devil and Daniel Webster

(1 Ratings)
Author:Stephen Vincent Benet  Summary by:CatherineGallagher
A one-act play based on the author' short story of the same name. Read Summary
Published: August 26, 2009 Visits: 90 words : 600

Third Street

(1 Ratings)
Author:Richard Colman  Review by:CatherineGallagher
A coming-of-age play written by an 18-year old winner of the Young Playwright's Festival. Read Review
Published: August 26, 2009 Visits: 12 words : 300

Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

(1 Ratings)
Authors:Athol Fugard; John Kani; Winston Ntshona  Summary by:CatherineGallagher
A play about being black in South Africa under apartheid. written by one white and two black cowriters. Read Summary
Published: August 26, 2009 Visits: 15 words : 300
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Los Vendidos

(12 Ratings)
Author:Luis Valdez  Review by:pammy
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Published: February 13, 2008 Visits: 2611 words : 300

Antigone

(17 Ratings)
Author:Sophocles  Review by:Ratso1
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Published: July 1, 2005 Visits: 2453 words : 600

othello, racism

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Author:william shakespeare  Review by:tammanna
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Published: April 27, 2006 Visits: 2343 words : 900
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Author:John Drakakis  Review by:Xtina
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Published: August 2, 2007 Visits: 187 words : 600

Red Noses

(4 Ratings)
Author:Peter Barnes  Review by:axial
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Published: August 17, 2005 Visits: 294 words : 600

THE COLLEEN BAWN, or THE BRIDES OF GARRYOWEN

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Author:Dion Boucicault  Review by:CatherineGallagher
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Published: August 31, 2007 Visits: 137 words : 600
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