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This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and to create a semblance of community. When a young white prisoner accused of child molesting is thrown into the cell block by a guard who says he belongs in Sing Sing because "the men up there know what to do with degenerates like...
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Full of allegorical characters and ghosts, onstage murder, suicide, play-within-the-play, real and feigned insanity and a bloody ending, "The Spanish Tragedy" established the popular revenge play and introduced audiences to the excitement of psychological realism.
4) Plays
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Mermaid dramabook volume MD 10, 13, 39
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1958-67]
Language
English
7) Four plays
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Mermaid dramabook volume MD12
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
9) Three plays
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Mermaid dramabook volume MD35
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
10) Five plays
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Mermaid dramabook volume MD22
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
13) Seven plays
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Mermaid dramabook volume MD19, MD30
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1960-1964]
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1982, ©1981
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English
Description
A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 and has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version--tracks the investigation of this murder.
19) Last plays
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Mermaid dramabook volume MD14
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
20) Five plays
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Mermaid dramabook volume MD17
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
1960
Language
English
Description
Racine was one of the greatest dramatists. The five plays included in this volume represent all phases of his career -- the first masterpiece, two plays of his middle period, the last great secular play, and the greater of the two biblical plays. In these modern and previously unpublished translations Professor Muir has made a delightful and important contribution. The translations, in blank verse, are intended not only for the general reader but...
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