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The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the moon marigolds

a drama in two acts
1998
A two-act play depicting an embittered mother who vents her frustrations upon her two daughters.

Doctor Faustus

a two-text edition (A-text, 1604; B-text, 1616) contexts and sources criticism
2005
Presents the complete text to the seventeenth-century versions of Christopher Marlowe's classic play and includes explanatory notes, twenty-five critical essays, and chronology.

The American dream

and Zoo story : two plays
1997
Contains two plays, "The American Dream" and "The Zoo Story," written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee.

All my sons

a drama in three acts
2000
Presents the text of the 1947 play about Joe Keller, a manufacturer of aircraft parts during World War II who allows faulty cylinder heads to be sold to the Army and when caught, blames his employee and neighbor, destroying many lives in the process.

A streetcar named Desire

1974
Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.

The skin of our teeth

a play
2003
Presents the text of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning play in which the Eternal Family, George and Maggie Antrobus, their children Gladys and Henry, and their maid Sabina, endure thousands of years of near disasters.

Six degrees of separation

a play
1994
A tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, about the Kittredges, a wealthy New York couple who are taken in by a hustler who claims to be the son of actor Sidney Poitier.

Our town

a play in three acts
2003
Portrays life in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, in the early 1900's through the routine daily events and the major moments in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb, and their families; and how their lives, although mundane, are touched by the universal forces of love, despair, apathy, nature, and death.

The miracle worker

2008
William Gibson's play about teacher Annie Sullivan's determined quest to give twelve-year-old Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute, the gift of language.

Ma Rainey's black bottom

a play in two acts
1985
Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.

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