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An Inspector Calls
by J B Priestley
“Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary...she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out...”
Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter’s engagement. Into this cosy scene intrudes the harsh figure of a police inspector investigating the suicide of a young working-class woman. Under interrogation, every member of the family turns out to have a shameful secret which links them with her death.
M Butterfly
by David Henry Hwang
Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government—and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive—and as elusive—as a butterfly.How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese...
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Oleanna
by David Mamet
David Mamet is a dramatist, director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog, and The Verdict. His more than twenty plays include Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross. Born in chicago in 1947,...
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The Ethics Of Aristotle
by Aristotle
This text gives great insight to the history of philosophy, and changes the way you think about ethics and morals. Excellent philosophical reading. A very important book for anyone who takes interest in their beliefs. Please note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficutl to decipher. This eBook has bookmarks at chaper headings and is printable.
Accidental Death Of an Anarchist
by Dario Fo
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is perhaps the best-known play by the Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.
The Misanthrope and Other Plays
by Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Moliere was the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673). His plays achieved great success, especially his masterpiece, The Misanthrope, and elicited enormous controversy with their religious irreverence.
Dancing At Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
The play Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel gives a glimpse of life for the spinster Munday sisters in 1936 during harvest season in County Donegal.
The sisters range from twenty-six to forty, and are barely surviving on their meager income, which they lose by the end of the play.
The sisters range from twenty-six to forty, and are barely surviving on their meager income, which they lose by the end of the play.
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
by J B Priestley
An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree...
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All My Sons a Drama In Three Acts
by Arthur Miller
Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back to business, making himself very wealthy in the ensuing years. In Miller’s work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve’s daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison...
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