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By William Shakespeare, R. A Foakes. 1993
A dramatic comedy about a family divided exactly in half by a shipwreck. Each half contains one parent, one twin…
son and one twin slave. Their attempts to become reunited cause many mistaken identity mix-ups and are complicated by the father's impending execution if he does not produce a ransom. 1993.By Stephen King. 1999
Screenplay for a TV miniseries. General store owner Mike Anderson recounts what happened when a blizzard struck Little Tall Island,…
Maine, and Andre Linoge arrived for a horror-filled visit. Eighty-year-old Martha Clarendon was the first to see the stranger, and he killed her with his wolf-headed cane. Some violence. c1999. Uniform title: Storm of the century (Motion picture)By William Shakespeare. 1997
A romantic tragedy of two teenagers from rival families who fall in love. A sentence of exile and an impending…
arranged marriage force the two to flee. A friar suggests a ruse to accomplish their union, but miscommunication causes it to backfire. This is a fully dramatised unabridged version. For Senior High readers. Originally published in 1597. 1997.By William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi. 2002
This edition accurately reproduces the First Folio of the plays of William Shakespeare. As a further aid to understanding, on…
each opposite page, the same text appears, but this time in a fully modernized version. Edited by Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi, it also contains two introductions, textual notes, and an appendix giving variant versions from the Quarto where appropriate. 2002, c1592.By William Shakespeare. 2002
A tragedy concerning a petulant king and his three daughters. Amid the political action, Lear is taken in by false…
avowals of love from two of his daughters, and disinherits his third because of her refusal to flatter him. This is a fully dramatised version. Believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. 2002.By Peter Shaffer. 1981
A play inspired by music and death revolves around the bitter jealousy of Antonio Salieri, the court composer who played…
second fiddle to the more brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Some strong language. c1981. Uniform title: AmadeusBy William Shakespeare. 1996
The proud would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick circle each other warily, and as they draw closer and closer to their…
inevitable union, their scathing witticisms and sly innuendoes reach a feverish intensity that befits the passionate longing they both vainly seek to deny. First publicly acted prior to 1600. c1996.By William Shakespeare, Barbara A Mowat, Paul Werstine. 1995
First performed in 1598, this comedy in five acts concerns two pairs of lovers. Before Hero and Claudio can find…
happiness together, they must sort out the complications of Don John's false accusations. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick match wits and fall in love. Includes notes and explanatory essays. 1995.By William Shakespeare, James Mansfield Nosworthy. 1968
When Vincentio leaves the city government in the hands of Judge Angelo, the laws against fornication, which had been loosely…
enforced, are now more strictly observed. When a young couple is caught expecting a child out of wedlock the man is sentenced to death. Vincentio is disguised as a friar to spy on the doings in his city and aids in a plan to stop Angelo. 1973, c1604.By William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi. 2001
Historical drama. The newly ascended king of England first deals with three suspected traitors. Then, on a pretext, Henry invades…
France to claim the throne. After his victory in the battle of Agincourt, there is a huge celebration, and Henry turns his attention to his courtship of Catherine of France, as two knaves and a braggart provide comic relief. 2001, c1599.By Manuel Puig, Thomas Colchie. 1984
Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manuel Puig, who died in…
1990. The centrepiece of the volume is Puig's "Kiss of the Spider Woman", made into an acclaimed film starring William Hurt. Also included are the compelling works "Under a mantle of stars" and "Mystery of the rose bouquet". 1984. Uniform title: Beso de la mujer araña.By William Shakespeare, Norman Sanders. 1967
Loved by the Roman crowd but more and more feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire…
to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the most famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. 1967, c1599.By John Patrick Shanley. 2005
The Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, stern principal of St. Nicholas Catholic School, is convinced that school chaplain Father Flynn is…
a pedophile, and that instead of mentoring the school's only black student, he has seduced him. Through meetings with Flynn, young teacher Sister James, and the student's mother, she gathers her evidence and plans a course of action. No one is totally right or truthful, keeping everyone in a state of doubt. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2005.By Richmond P Hobson. 1951
In the fall of 1934, three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch made their way from peaceful…
Wyoming to the harsh, uncharted territory of the British Columbian interior. In conditions as challenging as any encountered by the western frontier pioneers of a hundred years earlier, the three men and their equipment-laden horses conquered the tortuous miles over narrow passes and mountain summits, hewed their first cabin from virgin timber, and attempted to carve out a space for themselves on the unforgiving landscape. Followed by "Nothing too good for a cowboy". 1951.By William Shakespeare, H. J Oliver. 1968
A pastoral comedy set primarily in the forest of Arden. A duke is exiled by his cruel brother, who later…
banishes his daughter as well. The action switches from the count to the forest where the exiles and friends wander in a maze of romances and mixed identities. For Senior High readers. 1968, c1599.By Tennessee Williams. 2008
In this play, a recently widowed, faded southern belle visits her bohemian sister and lusty brother-in-law in the French Quarter…
of New Orleans. Seeking the lost gentility of her early life, she instead faces a mental breakdown because of the insensitivity of those around her. First published in 1947, c2008.By William Shakespeare. 1996
King Leontes of Sicilia becomes unjustifiably jealous of his wife, Hermione. The disgraced queen is banished for her attention towards…
Leontes' honourable friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia. Leontes' lack of trust creates disaster in both households, and costs him sixteen years of mourning before things are resolved happily for all. 1996. Written circa 1611.By William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A Mowat. 1962
Historical tragedy and study of kingship first performed in the 1590s. Richard II, a weak and ineffectual king, settles a…
quarrel and exiles Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, for ten years. He then seizes Henry's property to finance the Irish wars. Henry returns to claim his inheritance, murders the king's supporters, and imprisons Richard. Henry usurps the throne, but lives in fear until the deposed Richard is no more. 1962. Uniform title: King Richard IIBy William Shakespeare, G. R Hibbard. 1968
By Richmond P Hobson. 2015
The interior of British Columbia in the early 20th century is a jungle of swamps, rivers, and grasslands. It's a…
vast and still barely explored wilderness, whose principal citizens are timber wolves, moose, giant grizzly bears, and the odd human being. Into this forbidding land, Rich Hobson, Pioneer cattle rancher, brings Gloria, his city-raised bride. Her adjustment to life in the wilderness is sure to be difficult, as is her relationship with Rich and his backwoods cronies. Will Gloria ever find that she belongs in this strange, harsh land? Sequel to "Nothing too good for a cowboy". 2015.