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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Gothic plays and American society, 1794-1830	M. Susan Anthony	"This first full-length study of early American Gothic drama examines the relationship between Gothic plays and the developing society in which they flourished. It discusses topics ranging from the n…	OL11989091W
Fly like an eagle and other stories	David Mamet,Elizabeth Van Steenwyk	This scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of t…	OL15397060W
Lunch hour	Jean Kerr	Never has Jean Kerr's wit had a keener edge or her comic sense more peaks of merriment than in this clever confection which starred Gilda Radner and Sam Waterston on Broadway as a pair whose spouses …	OL15413701W
A Texas trilogy	Jones, Preston	"Preston Webb writes without rage, yet with deep comic understanding in his three plays. He lets readers and audiences find happy compromises, sad realities, or ultimate triumphs. In reading these pl…	OL16501009W
"We will be citizens"	James Fisher	"A dozen essays--by a range of established scholars and performing artists on issues in post-1969 American gay and lesbian theatre and drama--cover playwrights, millennial dramatists, and actors whil…	OL18626682W
Duo!	Joyce E. Henry,Bob Shuman	The scenes contained in this volume are presented exactly as written by the playwrights, with no internal deletions. The introductions to each follow the headings "Characters," "Scene," and "Time"; t…	OL18661715W
Great scenes from minority playwrights	Marsh Cassady	A collection of scenes from Hispanic as well as Native-American, African-American, Jewish-American, and Asian-American theater; background information and discussion/analysis follow each scene.	OL18973535W
Aplauso! Hispanic Children's Theater (English and Spanish Edition)	Joe Rosenberg	A collection of plays for children, written in English by Hispanic American authors.	OL19636852W
The best 10-minute plays for three or more actors, 2008	Lawrence Harbison	Presents a collection of ten-minute plays taken from a variety of theaters across the United States.	OL19664080W
Rain	John Colton	The action of the play takes place in the hotel store of trader Joe Horn, on the island of Tutuila, Port of Pago Pago, the south seas, where a missionary's determination to reform a prostitute leads …	OL20543413W
A photograph	Ntozake Shange	It is about a young Black man who is trying to make it as a professional photographer and is surrounded by caricatures of Black people gone wrong. The exception is a girl friend who is a free and sov…	OL2180762W
The Crucible	SparkNotes LLC	"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket.	OL21848379W
Performing television	Elizabeth Klaver	"Is it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues that television's dominance of the entertainment …	OL221981W
Plays for three	Nina Shengold,Eric Lane	"PLAYS FOR THREE is a unique anthology of 23 outstanding plays for three actors by an exciting mix of established and emerging playwrights. Everyone's heard that "Two's company, three's a crowd." Th…	OL22321221W
Scenes and monologues from Steinberg/ATCA new play award finalists, 2008-2012	Bruce Burgun	xviii, 332 pages ; 20 cm	OL23292188W
Ying Ruocheng yi ming ju wu zhong	Ruocheng Ying	Ben shu shi zhu ming hua ju yan yuan, dao yan ying ruo cheng xian sheng de yi zuo. ta cong wu tai yan chu de jiao du, dui zhe wu bu shi jie ming ju jin xing le xin de quan shi.	OL24446357W
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition	Jorge Luis Borges,Alice Walker,William Faulkner,Lewis Carroll,X. J. Kennedy,Emily Brontë,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Tennessee Williams,Edgar Allan Poe,James Joyce,Kate Chopin,Sylvia Plath,Jack London,Shirley Jackson,Margaret Atwood,Chinua Achebe,Dana Gioia,William Shakespeare	Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan -- Reading a story -- The art of fiction -- Types of short fiction -- Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend -- The north wind and the sun / Aesop -- Th…	OL26371856W
The mice have been drinking again	Cleve Haubold	Jerry and Julie are a happy young couple, but they would be happier if Julie's scatter-brained cousin, Roxanne, did not live with them. Roxanne affects hippie fashions and spends most of her time in …	OL29245505W
Suddenly last summer	Sam Sloan,Tennessee Williams	See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30279W/Suddenly_last_summer	OL30279W
The American play	Robinson, Marc	In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth centur…	OL3358939W