An unsuccessful traveling salesman finally confronts, in his early sixties, his shattered dreams.
Journey to an English village in 1255 where a cast of characters, from millers to maidens, are introduced through colorful...
Three plays from Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright August Wilson: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and Joe Turner's Come and...
This newly revised Signet classic includes an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, a unique introduction to the play, a...
The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde's legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other...
Edmond Rostand's bittersweet melodrama tells the tale of France's master swordsman--Cyrano de Bergerac, a valiant soldier cursed...
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature...
Faust is a classic of world literature, yet until now no English rendition of Goethe's philosophical and poetic drama has been...
The critically acclaimed series from the leading center for Shakespearean studies presents freshly edited texts of each play based...
Sir John Falstaff, the lovable rogue, is brought back from his death in Henry V to set this farce in motion. Falstaff (Anthony...
Combines the great Spanish playwright's tragedy of passion and vengeance, as a young bride and an unhappily married man are caught...
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it...
When the ghost of his father appears to Prince Hamlet of Denmark, urging him to avenge his murder upon his uncle, the tragic flaw...
A verse translation of Virgil's poem about the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.
In THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III, Shakespeare brilliantly dramatizes the terrible rise of Richard of Gloucester to the throne of...
Discussion questions, background information, and a modern English version accom...
Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic...
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts...
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his...
Shakespeare's classic play of deception, intrigue, and murder is reinvented in the Japanese manga style and set on a vast...
Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a traitor.
A revised edition of Shakespeare's classic history play about the final months in the life of England's King Henry IV describes...