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A New Way to Pay Old Debts is a social comedy that features the villainous character Sir Giles Overreach, a cruel and calculating man who deliberately reduces his nephew, Frank Wellborn, to poverty...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
All for Love is John Dryden's 1678 adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. In his version of the story, Dryden focuses on the last hours in the lives of the two lovers. It is Dryden's mos...… more ››$2.98 add to cart -
Written by the father of French classical tragedy, Pierre Corneille, Cinna is a story of politics and revenge that takes place after the Roman civil war. During his struggle to gain absolute power...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
Written by John Milton, Comus tells the story of two brothers and their sister who lose their way in a forest. The sister is tricked by Comus, the god of festivity, but is then rescued by the Atte...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
Renowned for his swordsmanship, beloved for his noble nature, and gifted with words and wit, Cyrano de Bergerac can boast of much, except his equally famous and enormous nose. Smitten with the fair...… more ››$2.55 add to cart -
Deirdre of the Sorrows was unfinished at the time of Synge's death. William Butler Yeats and Synge's wife, actress Molly Allgood, finished the play and presented it in 1910 at the Abbey Theatre. Th...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
This work is fascinating for its views of seventeenth-century travel on the road between Toledo and Madrid. The heroine causes delays in the trip as she pretends to be ill with motion sickness res...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
A tragedy written in blank verse by Christopher Marlowe, Edward the Second begins with the recall of Edward's favorite subject, Piers Gaveston, from exile and ends with his abdication of the crown ...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
This tragic drama tells the story of the Flemish Count of Egmont, who is sentenced to death by the occupying Spaniards, and of the woman who attempts to rescue him. Goethe is one of the most famous...… more ››$0.99 add to cart -
Calderon holds a place in the golden age of Spanish literature as a poet of lasting significance. The preservation and defense of honor in a patriarchy is the central theme of his play The Mayor of...… more ››$0.99 add to cart
